Advanced Research Methods in Education

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 now 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 fundamentals. It includes concepts of research, education as discipline and hypothesis, sampling, historical, philosophical, Experimental research; methods, research tools, data collection, analysis to 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.