Research in Education

1. Research in Education 2. Area and Problems of Educational Research 3. History of Educational Research 4. Educational Research in India 5. Steps in Educational Research 6. Action Research 7. The Research Problem 8. Formulation of Hypothesis 9. The Research Proposal 10. The Research Design 11. Sampling 12. Kinds and Sources of Information 13. Review of the Related Literature 14. Data-Gathering Tools : Psychological Tests 15. Attainment or Achievement Tests 16. The Interview 17. Rating Scales and Sociometry 18. The Descriptive Method: Survey Studies 19. Developmental Studies 20. The Genetic Research 21. The Case Study 22. Causal Comparative Studies or Ex-post Facto Research 23. The Questionnaire 24. The Schedule 25. The Historical Method 26. Experimental Method 27. Experimental Designs 28. Research Models 29. Content Analysis 30. Generalization 31. The Research Report 32. Errors in Research 33. Educational Statistics Bibliography

Dr. Soti Shivendra Chandra, M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., is Principal of the S.S. Post-graduate College, Shahjahanpur, Rohilkhand University. He has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students of education. Besides participating in many seminars and contributing many research papers, Dr. Soti has held several important positions at the university level. He has been co-author with Dr. Ram Nath Sharma in several books on Education including Sri Aurobindos Philosophy of Education. Dr. Rajendra Kumar Sharma (born 1962), M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., U.G.C. Research Fellow, Panjab University, Chandigarh (1985-1988), worked in I.C.S.S.R. Sponsored Project (1987) on Overseas Indian Entrepreneurs in Kenya. He is LMI : Indian Sociological Society, Uttar Pradesh Samaj Shastra Parishad, Indian Research Association, U.P. Darshan Parishad. He is author of dozens of papers and books on Sociology both in Hindi and English. Dr. Sharma has utilised his experience of teaching Sociology to Post-graduate and Under-graduate students for writing ideal textbooks both in Hindi and English on almost all the papers taught in this subject at Indian Universities. He taught at N.A.S. P.G. College, Meerut (1987-1991). At present he is Lecturer at N.R.E.C. (P.G.) College, Ch. Charan Singh University.