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• 1. The Role and Importance of Research
• 2. The Research Process
• 3A Selecting a Problem and Reviewing the Research
• 3B The Importance of Practicing Ethics in Research
• 4. Sampling and Generalizability
• 5. Measurement, Reliability, and Validity
• 6. Methods of Measuring Behavior
• 7. Data Collection and Descriptive Statistics
• 8. Introducing Inferential Statistics
• 9. Nonexperimetal Research
• 10. Nonexperimental Research
• 11. Pre- and True Experimental Research Methods
• 12. Quasi-Experimental Research
• 13. Writing a Research Proposal
• 14. Writing a Research Manuscript

Rev.copy, Thesis--University of Birmingham, 2004

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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Designing Qualitative Research
• 3. Ethical Issues in Research
• 4. A Dramaturgical Look at Interviewing
• 5. Focus Group Interviewing
• 6. Ethographic Field Stratigies
• 7. Participatory Action Research
• 8. Unobtrusive Measures in Research
• 9. Social Historical Research and Oral Traditions
• 10. Case Studies
• 11. An Introduction to Content Analysis
• 12. Writing Research : Finding Meaning in Data

"This thoroughly revised and updated classic once again presents a guide to understanding, designing and conducting a qualitative research study. The fourth edition retains the reader-friendly, jargon-free style, making the book accessible to both novice and experienced researchers. While the book is practical guide to design and implementation of a qualitative research study, it also helps readers understand the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of this research paradigm. Drawing on the latest literature as well as both authors' experience with conducting and teaching qualitative research, the fourth edition includes new material on case study research and action research; discussion of online data sources (video, email, skype); updated discussion of data analysis software packages and uses; new discussion of data analysis strategies, including narrative analysis and poetic analysis; and a multiple ways of presenting qualitative research findings. References, examples, and quotes have all been updated throughout the book"
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• Part 1 The Desig.n of Qualitative Research
• Part 2 Collecting Qualitative Data
• Part 3 Analyzing and Reporting Qualitative Data

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• Design research in the social studies : history, methodology, and promise / Eric B. Freedman and Jongsung Kim
• Improving practice through iterative design
• From form to function : learning with practitioners to support diverse middle school students disciplinary reasoning and writing / Chauncey Monte-Sano, Ryan E. Hughes, and Sarah Thomson
• Using iterative design to improve student access and engagement in an online political communications simulation / Jeremy Stoddard and Kimberly Rodriguez
• Developing authentic performance assessments in a classroom mini-economy : reflections on the process of design / Stephen Day and Christine Bae
• Using and producing theory
• Applying theory to problematic practice : lessons learned from two implementations of a unit on gender / Jennifer Burke
• From practice to theory : ontological innovation in a ninth-grade history classroom / Eric B. Freedman
• Collaborating with educators
• Intersecting goals in an elementary social studies design project : confessional tales of teacher and researcher relationships / Kathryn M. Obenchain, Julie L. Pennington, and Maricela Bardem
• Design-based implementation research in a government classroom : a teacher's shifting pedagogy over four years / Jane C. Lo, Carol M. Adams, Alexandra Goodell, and Sara Nachtigal
• Contextualizing DBR historically, socially, and politically
• Theorizing context in DBR : integrating critical civic learning into the U.S. history curriculum / Beth C. Rubin
• Beyond national discourses : South Korean and Japanese students "make a better social studies textbook" / Jongsung Kim.