TY - BOOK AU - Cohen, Louis AU - Manion, Lawrence AU - Morrison, Keith TI - Research methods in education SN - 9780415583367 U1 - 370.78 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Education--Research KW - Education--Research--Methodology KW - Great Britain N1 - The context of educational research -- The nature of inquiry -- Planning educational research -- The ethics of educational and social research -- Research design issues: planning research -- Sampling -- Validity and reliability -- Styles of educational research -- Naturalistic and ethnographic research -- Historical research -- Surveys, longitudinal, cross-sectional and trend studies -- Case studies -- Correlational research -- Ex post facto research -- Experiments, quasi-experiments and single-case research -- Action research -- Strategies for data collection and researching -- Questionnaires -- Interviews -- Accounts -- Observation -- Tests -- Personal constructs -- Multi-dimensional measurement -- Role playing -- Recent developments in educational research -- Recent developments ER -