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Cross-sectional research methods
The international encyclopedia of education (2nd ed.)
(1994)
Abstract
This entry considers initially the different types of research studies that can be carried out in educational research, and their relationship to cross-sectional studies, the advantages and disadvantages of cross-sectional studies, the usefulness of cross- sectional studies, the difference kinds of research studies that are essentially cross-sectional in nature, as well as the gradations in types of investigation between cross- sectional and longitudinal research studies. In addition, this entry discusses issues concerned with the design of a cross- sectional study, the role of sampling, the methods of data collection, the value of pretest and pilot studies, and the major sources of error in such studies. A further important issue, which is addressed, involves the analysis of data and the problems of explanation associated with the relationships reported from cross-sectional studies in contrast to longitudinal and experimental studies.
Disciplines
Publication Date
1994
Editor
T Husen and T N Postlethwaite
Publisher
Pergamon
ISBN
0080410464
Citation Information
Petra Lietz. "Cross-sectional research methods" Oxford UKThe international encyclopedia of education (2nd ed.) Vol. 12 (1994) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/petra_lietz/7/