Research Methods in Education: Higher Education Issues

• Action research for educational change / John Elliott
  
  
• Educational research for social justice: getting off the fence / Morwenna Griffiths
  
  
• Teacher research and school improvement: opening doors from the inside / edited by Rob Halsall
  
  
• Doing qualitative research differently: free association, narrative and the interview method / Wendy Hollway and Tony Jefferson
  
  
• You and your action research project / Jean McNiff, Pamela Lomax, Jack Whitehead
  
  
• Policy research in educational settings: contested terrain / Jenny Ozga
  
  
• Understanding educational research / edited by David Scott and Robin Usher
  
  
• Researching education: data, methods and theory in educational enquiry / David Scott and Robin Usher
  
  
• Educational research: contemporary issues and practical approaches / Jerry Wellington

• British Educational Research Journal
  
  
• British Journal of Sociology of Education
  
  
• Educational Action Research
  
  
• Educational Research
  
  
• Educational Research Review
  
  
• Educational Theory
  
  
• Evaluation Review: a journal of applied social research
  
  
• Higher Education Research and Development
  
  
• International Journal of Educational Research
  
  
• International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
  
  
• International Journal of Research and Method in Education
  (formerly Westminster Studies in Education)
  
  
• London Review of Education
  
  
• Research into Higher Education Abstracts

Journals (free)

• Research Intelligence Online -BERA
  http://www.bera.ac.uk/publications/ri.php
  

• Electronic Databases Essential

• Google Scholar

• BEI (British Education Index)
  http://www.leeds.ac.uk/bei/

• BERA (British Educational Research Association)
  http://www.bera.ac.uk/

• BERA Research online Guideline
  http://www.bera.ac.uk/publications/guides.php

  • Revised Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research (2004)
  • Good Practice on Educational Research Writing (2000)
    
    
    
• CERUK (Current Educational Research in the UK)
  http://www.ceruk.ac.uk/ceruk_home.html
  
  
• Education-line "is a freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice."
  http://brs.leeds.ac.uk/~beiwww/el.htm
  Also available on British Education Index (BEI) online access through the library catalogue.
  
  
• Encyclopaedia of informal education
  (exploring the theory and practice of informal education, lifelong learning and social action)
  http://www.infed.org/encyclopaedia.htm
  
  
• EPP!-Centre (IOE)
  http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/
  
  
• ERIC (Education Resource Information Center)
  http://www.eric.ed.gov/
  
  
• ESRC Society today
  http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/index.aspx
  
  
• Intute
  http://www.intute.ac.uk
  
  
• NFER (National Foundation for Research in Education)
  http://www.nfer.ac.uk/
  
  
• OFSTED
  http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/
  
  
• Policy Studies Institute
  http://www.psi.org.uk
  
  
• Scottish Council for Research in Education
  http://www.scre.ac.uk/pubs/

• Assessing Quality in Applied and Practice-based Educational Research A Framework for Discussion. John Furlong and Alis Oancea Oxford University Department of Educational Studies
  http://www.aare.edu.au/05papc/fu05018y.pdf
  
  
• Research Methods Knowledge Base (2006)
  http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/index.php
  
  
• Research Methods (an ERSC research programme)
  http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/
  
  
• Exploring Online Research methods
  (A training programme for the Social Science community)
  http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/orm/index.htm

• ActionResearch.net (Jack Whitehead @ bath university)
  http://people.bath.ac.uk/edsajw/

• Smith, M. K. (1996; 2001, 2007) 'Action research', the encyclopedia of informal education,
  http://www.infed.org/research/b-actres.htm

  • Questionnaires
    Thesistool
    http://www.thesistools.com/
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  • Statistics
    Statistics ONS: About statistics - Methodology and quality
    http://www.statistics.gov.uk/about/data/default.asp

• Information for the educator: The integration of research in undergraduate (honors) curricula
  http://www.robertobruzzese.com/research/proposalGRC.pdf
  
  
• Resources for teaching qualitative research methods at undergraduate level
  http://www.psychology.heacademy.ac.uk/html/resources_teach_qsm.asp
  
  
• Research Methods in Educational and Social Enquiry (ECY3002)
  http://www.education.ex.ac.uk/module_information.php?code=ECY3002
  
  
• Teaching research methods
  http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=210053&c=1