Chapter 1: Introduction - Robert J. Coe
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES IN EDUCATION
Chapter 2: The nature of educational research - Robert J. Coe
Chapter 3: Finding your theoretical position - Michael Waring
PART II: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE IN CONDUCTING RESEARCH
Chapter 4: Design of empirical research - Larry V. Hedges
Chapter 5: Planning your research - Laura Day Ashley
Chapter 6: Inference and interpretation in research - Robert J. Coe
Chapter 7: Research ethics - Martyn Hammersley
Chapter 8: Disseminating your research - Mike McLinden
PART III: RESEARCH DESIGNS
Chapter 9: Action research - Carol Munn-Giddings
Chapter 10: Naturalistic research - Rob Walker
Chapter 11: Ethnographic research - Ghazala Bhatti
Chapter 12: Visual methodologies - Claudia Mitchell
Chapter 13: Grounded theory - Michael Waring
Chapter 14: Case study research - Laura Day Ashley
Chapter 15: Secondary data - Emma Smith
Chapter 16: Longitudinal research - Anna Vignoles
Chapter 17: Statistical and correlational techniques - Stephen Gorard
Chapter 18: Impact evaluation - Steve Higgins
Chapter 19: Interventions: experiments - Peter Tymms
Chapter 20: Mixing methods in education research - Gert Biesta
Chapter 21: Systematic reviews - Carole Torgerson, Jill Hall, Kate Lewis-Light
Chapter 22: Data science and computational research methods - Christian Bokhove
PART IV: DATA COLLECTION TOOLS
Chapter 23: Observational methods - Drew H. Gitomer
Chapter 24: In-depth interviews - Carolyn L. Mears
Chapter 25: Focus groups and group interviews - Anita Gibbs
Chapter 26: Internet-based methods - Rhona Sharpe and Greg Benfield
Chapter 27: Doing social media research - Eve Stirling
Chapter 28: Documentary methods - Gary McCulloch
Chapter 29: Questionnaires - Peter Tymms
PART V: ANALYSIS METHODS
Chapter 30: Using software in qualitative data analysis - Graham R. Gibbs
Chapter 31: Statistical analysis tools - Paul Connolly
Chapter 32: Discourse analysis - Elaine Vaughan
Chapter 33: Media analysis - Michael Atkinson
Chapter 34: Biographical research - Michael Tedder
Chapter 35: Statistical hypothesis tests - Michael Borenstein
Chapter 36: Analysis of variance (ANOVA) - Wendy Chan
Chapter 37: Multiple linear regression - Stephen Gorard
Chapter 38: Multilevel analysis - Michael Seltzer and Jordan Rickles
Chapter 39: Effect sizes - Robert J. Coe
Chapter 40: Meta-analysis - Larry V. Hedges