This refreshing<b> Second Edition</b> offers a helpful overview of educational research for those training to be teachers, or setting out on classroom-based research projects. </p><p>The book illustrates the nature and logic of the research process, and supports readers in critically evaluating the strengths and limitations of published studies.</p><p></p><p>Drawing on a variety of relevant examples, the book demonstrates each stage of the research process - including formulating research questions, selecting data collection techniques and deciding on approaches to data analysis - and usefully integrates each stage. </p><p></p><p>The new edition includes:</p><p>- an expanded treatment of data analysis</p><p>- new, discrete chapters looking at ethical issues, and at how teachers can research their own classrooms through the use of case studies</p><p>- discussion of research carried out by trainee teachers. </p><p></p><p>Clear and comprehensive, the examples included in the book demonstr