Preface to the third edition Acknowledgements Introduction PART I Preparing the ground 1 Approaches to educational research Actin research and the ‘teacher as researcher’model Case study The ethnographic style Surveys The experimental style Narrative inquiry Which approach? Further reading 2 Planning the project Selecting a topic The ‘first thougts’list and establishing the focus of the study Hypothesis or objectives? The projest outline Timing Supervision Intellectual property Planning the project checklist 3 Negotiating access,ethics and the problems of inside research 4 Keeping records,making notes and locating libraries 5 Finding and searching information sources 6 The literature review PART II Selection methods of data collection 7 The analysis of documentary evidence 8 Designing and administering questinnaires 9 Planning and conducting interviews 10 Diaries 11 Observation studies PART III Interpreting the evidence and reporting the findings Introduction 12 Interprtation and presentation of the evidence 13 Writing the report Postscript References Index