Advanced Research Methods in Education/Raghu Raj Singh. New Delhi,
Shree Pub., 2006, xi, 440 p., ISBN 81-8329-115-5.
Advanced Research Methods in Education/Raghu Raj Singh. New Delhi,
Shree Pub., 2006, xi, 440 p., ISBN 81-8329-115-5.
Contents: Preface. 1. Educational research: education as a discipline. 2. Educational research: meaning of research. 3. Educational research: selection of a problem. 4. Educational research: review of related literature. 5. Educational research: formulation of hypotheses. 6. Educational research: design and sampling. 7. Educational research: survey method. 8. Educational research: philosophical method. 9. Educational research: descriptive method. 10. Educational research: historical method. 11. Educational research: experimental and Quasi-method. 12. Educational research: genetic method. 13. Educational research: formulation of generalization. 14. Educational research: computer data analysis. 15. Educational research: research report. 16. Educational research: development in Indian context. Bibliography. Index.
"The main question in the human life that he is always interested to know the new things in the nature when even it is related with human problem and the interest to know about the new is called Research Commonly deals with the application of the scientific method to problem solving. It has not always been evident to teachers and other educators that scientific methodology is of importance in education. Very likely this neglect of scientific methodology has occurred because research has been considered irrelevant to educators. Teachers have too many practical problems to worry about ivory tower research or so the belief goes.
The present publication has been written for the use as a basic text-book for an introductory course of "Educational Research" or as reference for those interested in research and teaching research fundamentals. It includes concepts of research, education as discipline and hypothesis, sampling, historical, philosophical. Experimental research; methods, research tools, data collection, analysis or data, formulation of conclusions report writing, errors in conducting research, the development of educational research and priority fields of educational research have been discussed in detail. It is hoped the reader who masters the ideas of this text, however, should be well on his way to competency in the methods and procedure of educational research." (jacket)