This essential guide for education students and researchers explains how to use quantitative methods for analysing educational data using IBM SPSS Statistics.

This book offers insight into how to secure, manage and effectively research funding in the changing order of global economy and competing research priorities.

This book addresses how newer researchers can proactively plan, write, promote and disseminate their work, and increase their chances of both academic citation and real-world impact.

Do your results mean something - or not? How can you measure it? Breaking it down into three building blocks, this Little Quick Fix shows students how to master hypothesis testing, normal distribution and p values.

A Super Quick guide to taking the best notes, with tips and strategies to get the most out of every lecture or study session.

With six new articles covering topics such as terrorism and the internet, prosecuting terrorists, and homeland security, this reader-friendly textbook will inspire students whilst helping them to understand the key material in this field.

This book provides an international, comparative look at aspects of early childhood education and care.

With interdisciplinary coverage of a wide range of core topics - including social inequality, national identity, religion, sport and education - accompanied by comprehensive pedagogical features to encourage engagement, McCrone's introduction provides students with an exciting new textbook on Scottish society

The chapters in this book develop a working framework and contain worked examples and exercises to make sure that readers get the best results from their research and are fully versed in all the practical aspects of doing action research.

Introduction to Children, Young People and Policy is a customised textbook compiled by Erica Joselyn-Beales, Jessica Clark and Sarah Richards for students of University Campus Suffolk