A Beginner's Guide to Doing Your Education Research Project

In this basic guide, step-by-step advice is presented in a clear way and chapters take the reader through the entire process, from planning and doing research, to writing it up. Each stage is covered, with detailed help on choosing a topic, drawing up research questions, doing the literature review, choosing and designing research methods, the ethics of doing research, analyzing data, and collating and presenting findings.

Features in the text include:

• explanations of key research terms

• activities (with answers)

• progress sheets

• case studies.

Online resources to accompany the book are available at methodspace.com/group/mikelambert

This is an ideal text for undergraduate students undertaking their first ever research project, postgraduates pursuing Masters awards and teachers carrying out action research.