This book covers the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. Acknowledgements, Introduction, The Context of Educational Research, The Nature of Inquiry - Setting the Field, Planning Educational Research, The Ethics of Educational and Social Research, Planning Educational Research, Sampling, Sensitive Educational Research, Validity and Reliability, Styles of Educational Research, Naturalistic and Ethnographic Research, Historical and Documentary Research, Surveys and Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional and Trend Studies, Internet-Based Research and Computer Usage, Case studies, Ex Post Facto Research, Experiments and Quasi-experiments and Single-Case Research and Meta-analysis, Action Research, Strategies for Data Collection and Researching, Interviews, Accounts, Observation, Tests, Personal Constructs, Role-Playing, Data Analysis, Quantitative Analysis, Choosing a Statistical Test.