The new edition of Methodology of Educational Research covers the entire spectrum of methods used by researchers in education, remaining the essential manual for students of educational research.

It includes new material on a variety of topics, such as: qualitative, naturalistic, and ethnographic research methods; evaluative research and curriculum research; critical theory and educational research; feminist perspectives of research; research and policy formulation; design of educational research; critical action research; statistical analysis; reliability and validity in questionnaires; analysis of critical incidents; meta-analysis and multilevel modeling; Nominal Group and Delphi techniques; questionnaire design and formulation; focus groups; test construction and response theory to questions; contemporary developments in educational research (Internet usage, simulations, Geographic Information Systems, etc.).

[Excerpt from the back cover text of the edition]