Key Ideas in Educational Research

By: David Scott, Marlene Morrison

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Paperback | 15 May 2007 | Edition Number 1

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It is easy for newcomers to educational research to be confused by the wide range of terms used in the field and consequently for them to find it challenging to relate such terms to their own research and practice. This comprehensive guide consists of 120 concise but illuminative essays providing:

- an explanation and definition of the term

- alternative explanations and definitions of the term

- the context in which it is used by educational researchers

- exemplars as to how the term is used and used be used in practice

- references to further literature

- cross-references to other terms in the book.

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Tables and Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Abduction	p. 1
Access	p. 2
Action Research	p. 4
Agency	p. 8
Alignment	p. 9
Anti-racism	p. 11
Assessment	p. 14
Biography/Autobiography	p. 15
Case Study	p. 17
Categorization	p. 22
Causation	p. 25
Childhood Research	p. 27
Closed and Open Systems	p. 30
Coding	p. 31
Comparative Research	p. 34
Content Analysis	p. 37
Conversation Analysis	p. 38
Correlational Research	p. 41
Critical Discourse Analysis	p. 42
Critical Incidents	p. 44
Critical Realism	p. 46
Critical Theory	p. 47
Culture	p. 49
Data Display	p. 52
Data Reduction	p. 53
Deconstruction	p. 55
Deduction	p. 57
Design	p. 58
Determinism	p. 61
Diaries	p. 63
Discourse	p. 67
Dissemination	p. 68
Distribution	p. 74
Documentary Research	p. 75
Emotionalism	p. 79
Empiricism	p. 81
Empowerment	p. 82
Epistemology/Ontology	p. 85
Ethics	p. 87
Ethnography	p. 89
Ethnomethodology	p. 93
Evaluation	p. 95
Evidence-based Practice	p. 102
Experiment	p. 103
Fallacies	p. 105
Fallibility	p. 106
Feminist Research	p. 108
Focus Groups	p. 112
Gender	p. 115
Generalization	p. 118
Grounded Theory	p. 119
Hermeneutics	p. 123
Historical Research	p. 125
Ideal Speech Situation	p. 128
Induction	p. 129
Interpretivism	p. 131
Interview	p. 133
Life History	p. 137
Linguistic Discourse Analysis	p. 140
Literature Review	p. 141
Longitudinal Observation Studies	p. 146
Mathematical Modelling	p. 148
Media	p. 150
Method	p. 152
Methodology	p. 153
Mixed Methods	p. 155
Narrative	p. 159
Naturalistic Observation	p. 162
Nomothetic Statements	p. 164
Objectivity	p. 165
Observation	p. 167
Paradigm	p. 169
Phenomenology	p. 171
Plagiarism	p. 172
Positivism	p. 173
Postmodernism	p. 175
Power	p. 177
Prediction	p. 179
Publishing	p. 181
Qualitative Research	p. 182
Quantitative Research	p. 185
Questionnaire	p. 189
Realism	p. 193
Reductionism	p. 195
Refereeing	p. 197
Referencing Systems	p. 199
Reflexivity	p. 201
Regression Analysis	p. 203
Relativism	p. 205
Relevance	p. 207
Reliability	p. 208
Replication	p. 210
Representativeness	p. 211
Research Assessment Exercise	p. 212
Research Community	p. 214
Respondent Validation	p. 215
Retroduction	p. 217
Sampling	p. 218
Social Constructionism	p. 222
Statistics	p. 224
Strategy	p. 225
Structuralism/Poststructuralism	p. 227
Structure	p. 228
Subjectivity	p. 230
Survey	p. 232
Symbolic Interactionism	p. 239
Systematic Observation	p. 241
Telephone Interviews	p. 243
Tests	p. 245
Textuality	p. 247
Transferability	p. 250
Triangulation	p. 251
Validity	p. 253
Value-added	p. 255
Values	p. 256
Variable Analysis	p. 258
Virtual Research	p. 260
Writing	p. 263
Writing for Academic Purposes	p. 270
Writing as Representation	p. 273
References	p. 277
Author Index	p. 291
Subject Index	p. 296
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