An accessible introduction to statistics written specifically for education students in the changing educational landscape.

Covering a range of concepts and methodological techniques, this second edition provides readers with an original examination of critical ethnography.

Provides a view of Narrative Analysis to include personal documents, interactive dimensions of storytelling and how circumstances shape narrative production.

The handy guide that helps readers better understand the process of research, from the initial asking of questions through to the analysis and interpretation of data leading to a final report - and everything in between.

An introduction to the concepts, assumptions, and practical implementation procedures involved in common types of projects based on hierarchical linear modelling, multilevel modelling, or linear mixed modelling.

Written by award-winning scholar Jonathan H Turner, this 936 page resource is a comprehensive, in-depth and detailed review of both classical and present-day theory in sociology.

This book presents an overview of common SPSS commands and contains a collection of more or less independent sections to help readers find the specific information they need.

Providing readers with non-technical and applied explanations of both conceptual and practical aspects of sampling, this book covers the changing technology landscape of survey research and big data.

Covering the full spectrum of skills needed, including planning, scoping, analysis, argumentation, theory building, modelling theories, methods, gathering data, presenting evidence, and writing, this book clearly helps students through each stage of doing a research project.

This practical, hands-on guide helps beginning researchers create a mixed methods research proposal for their dissertations, grants, or general research studies.