Doing Research with Secondary Data

Professor Daniel Muijs is Chair of Education. Previously he worked at the University of Manchester as Chair of Pedagogy and Teacher Development at the University of Manchester, School of Education, as Chair of School Leadership and Management at the University of Newcastle and as senior at Warwick Institute of Education. He is an acknowledged expert in the field of Educational and Teacher Effectiveness and is co-editor of the journal 'School Effectiveness and School Improvement'. He has published widely in the areas of educational effectiveness, leadership and research methods, and has conducted research for government agencies (DCSF, NCSL, QCA), Charitable Trusts (Gatsby) and Research Councils (ESRC).

• Introduction Why (not) use secondary data? Research questions and design Sources of large-scale quantitative data Sources of large-scale qualitative data Using administrative and accountability data Using organisational data Doing meta-analysis with secondary data Mixing secondary and primary data sources Key issues in analysing quantitative secondary data Key issues in analysing qualitative secondary data Building theory with secondary data Ethical issues in using secondary data Conclusion