Understanding Education Research, 2nd Edition is designed to help students learn to read educational research articles carefully, systematically, and critically

This user-friendly text takes a learn-by-doing approach to exploring research design issues in education and psychology, offering evenhanded coverage of quantit

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Argues that good educational research is often in essence philosophical rather than a matter of conventional 'research methods'.

This book explores educational research in terms of the relationship between epistemology, methodology and practice. Divided into two sections, the first examin