Doing Your Research Project : A Guide for First-Time Researchers in Education and Social Science /
Bell, Judith,
Doing Your Research Project : A Guide for First-Time Researchers in Education and Social Science / Judith Bell. - 3rd ed. - Buckingham : Open University Press, c1999. - xiv, 230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Part 1 Preparing the ground: approaches to educational research; planning the project; negotiating access, ethics and the problems of "inside" research; keeping records, making notes and locating libraries; finding and searching information sources; the literature review. Part 2 Selecting methods of data collection: introduction; the analysis of documentary evidence; designing and administering questionnaires; planning and conducting interviews; diaries; observation studies. Part 3 Interpreting the evidence and reporting the findings: introduction; interpretation and presentation of the evidence; writing the report; postscript.
This text assumes that the reader has no prior knowledge of research methodology or experience of carrying out research. It takes the reader step-by-step through each stage of preparing for, carrying out and writing up a research project.
0335203892 (hbk.) 0335203884 (pbk.)
Education--Research.
Education--Research--Methodology.
Independent study.
Social sciences--Research.
Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
LB1028 / .B394 1999
Doing Your Research Project : A Guide for First-Time Researchers in Education and Social Science / Judith Bell. - 3rd ed. - Buckingham : Open University Press, c1999. - xiv, 230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Part 1 Preparing the ground: approaches to educational research; planning the project; negotiating access, ethics and the problems of "inside" research; keeping records, making notes and locating libraries; finding and searching information sources; the literature review. Part 2 Selecting methods of data collection: introduction; the analysis of documentary evidence; designing and administering questionnaires; planning and conducting interviews; diaries; observation studies. Part 3 Interpreting the evidence and reporting the findings: introduction; interpretation and presentation of the evidence; writing the report; postscript.
This text assumes that the reader has no prior knowledge of research methodology or experience of carrying out research. It takes the reader step-by-step through each stage of preparing for, carrying out and writing up a research project.
0335203892 (hbk.) 0335203884 (pbk.)
Education--Research.
Education--Research--Methodology.
Independent study.
Social sciences--Research.
Social sciences--Research--Methodology.
LB1028 / .B394 1999