Research Methods and Methodologies in Education

Professor James Arthur, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor of Education and Civic Engagement, University of Birmingham. He is Director, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, an inter-disciplinary research centre focussing on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing. He has written widely on the relationship between theory and practice in education, particularly the links between communitarianism, social virtues, citizenship, religion and education. He is Secretary to the Society for Educational Studies. Dr Michael Waring, Griffith Institute for Educational Research, School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Australia. He sits on the executive of the Society for Educational Studies, and is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Educational Studies and Higher Education Pedagogies. His research interests focus on the development of inclusive participatory pedagogy, assessment feedback, research literacy and the use of learning technologies as part of distance and blended learning in higher education and initial teacher education contexts. Generally, and as part of the exploration of this personalised learning agenda, he is interested in the use and innovative development of qualitative research methodology. Robert Coe, Director of Research and Development at Evidence Based Education, Senior Associate at the Education Endowment Foundation and Honorary Professor of Education at Durham University.  His research interests focus on the application of research to supporting improvements in educational practice, drawing on experience as a university professor and high school teacher, with particular expertise in evaluation methodology and educational assessment. Larry V. Hedges is one of eight Board of Trustees Professors at Northwestern, the university’s most distinguished academic position. He holds appointments in statistics and data science, psychology, education and social policy, and medical social sciences. Previously, he was the Stella M. Rowley Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He received the Yidan Prize in Education Research in 2018 and the José Vasconcelos World Award of Education from the World Culture Council in 2023 He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Statistical Association, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Educational Research Association. He is also a member of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, which established an annual endowed lecture in his honor. He was selected to give the inaugural Hedges Lecture in 2016. Hedges was nominated by President Barack Obama to the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2012, and was elected Chair of the Board in 2016. Widely published, he has authored or co-authored 250 journal articles and 13 books including Coe, Waring, Hedges, & Day Ashley, Research Methods and Methodologies in Education, 3rd edition (2021, Sage London). He has also co-directed  research training institutes on research design  funded by the US Institute of Education Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation for the last 20 years.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES IN EDUCATION
How This Book Can Help You - James Arthur
The Nature of Educational Research: Exploring the Different Understandings of Educational Research - Robert Coe
Finding Your Theoretical Position - Michael Waring
PART TWO: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE IN CONDUCTING RESEARCH
Design of Empirical Research - Larry V. Hedges
Planning Your Research - Laura Day Ashley
Conducting Your Research - Robert J. Coe
Research Impact and Dissemination - Marilyn Leask
PART THREE: KEY METHODS
Dimension 1: Research Designs
Action Research - Carol Munn-Giddings
Naturalistic Research - Rob Walker
Ethnographic and Representational Styles - Ghazala Bhatti
Grounded Theory - Robert Thornberg
Visual Methodologies - Jenni Karlsson
Case Study Research - Laura Day-Ashley
Issues of Truth and Justice - Ian Davies and Andrew Peterson
Surveys and Longitudinal Research - Anna Vignoles
Statistical and Correlational Techniques - Stephen Gorard
Secondary Data - Emma Smith
Impact Evaluation - Steve Higgins
Interventions: Experiments - Peter Tymms
A Systematic Review - Mark Newman and Kelly Dickson
Mixed Methods - Gert Biesta
Philosophical Research - Richard Pring
Dimension 2: Data Collection Tools
Observation-Based Research - Michael V. Angrosino
In-Depth Interviews - Carolyn L. Mears
Techniques to Assist with Interviewing - Rosalind Hurworth
Focus Groups and Group Interviews - Anita Gibbs
Internet-Based Methods - Rhona Sharpe and Greg Benfield
Doing Blog Research - Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess
Documentary Methods - Gary McCulloch
Systematic Reviews - Carole Torgerson, Jill Hall and Kate Light
Questionnaires - Peter Tymms
Measurement and Validity - Ronald K. Hambleton
Dimension 3: Analysis Methods
Software and Qualitative Data Analysis - Graham R. Gibbs
Statistical Analysis Tools - Paul Connolly
Discourse Analysis - Elaine Vaughan
Media-Analysis - Michael Atkinson
Visual Methodologies and Social Change - Claudia Mitchell
Grounded Theory - Michael Waring
Ethnography as Epistemology - Judith L. Green, Audra Skukauskaite and W. Douglas Baker
Biographical Research Methods - Michael Tedder
Statistical Hypothesis Tests - Michael Borenstein
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) - Harvey J. Keselman and Lisa Lix
Multiple Linear Regression - Stephen Gorard
Multilevel Analysis - Mike Seltzer and Jordan Rickles
Effect Size - Robert Coe
Meta-Analysis - Larry V. Hedges