Education Research

Contents: Preface. 1. Brief. 2. Research approach. 3. Existing status of research. 4. Educational research. 5. Sample and population. 6. Data analysis. 7. Research techniques. 8. Collection of information and tools. 9. Varied significance of devices. 10. Techniques of making research. 11. Methodology of experimental research.

"Research involves gathering new data from primary or first-hand sources or using existing data for a new purpose. Teachers frequently assign a so-called research project that involves writing a paper dealing with the life of a prominent person. The students are expected to read so many of encyclopaedias, books, or periodical references and to synthesize the information in a written report. This is not research, for the data are not new. Merely reorganizing or restating what is already known and has already been written, valuable as it may be as a learning experience, is not research. It adds nothing to what is known." (jacket)