David Scott is Professor of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment and Faculty Director of Teaching and Learning at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. Marlene Morrison is Professor of Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

• Foreword; Preface; Introduction; A-Z of terms; Subject index; Author index. Complete list of headwords:; abduction; access; action research; agency; alignment; anti-racism; assessment; biography / autobiography; case study; categorisation; causation; childhood research; closed and open systems; coding; comparative research; content analysis; conversation analysis; correlational research; critical discourse analysis; critical incidents; critical realism; critical theory; culture; data display; data reduction; deconstruction; deduction; design; determinism; diaries; discourse; dissemination; distribution; documentary analysis; downward conflation; emotionalism; empiricism; empowerment; epistemology / ontology; ethics; ethnography; ethnomethodology; evaluation; evidence-based practice; experiment; fallacies; fallibility; feminist research; focus groups; gender; generalisation; grounded theory; hermeneutics; historical research; ideal speech situation; induction; interpretativism; interview; life history; linguistic discourse analysis; literature review; longitudinal observation studies; mathematical modelling; media; method; methodology; mixed methods; narrative; naturalistic observation; nomothetic statements; objectivity; observation; paradigm; phenomenology; plagiarism; positivism; postmodernism; power; prediction; publishing; qualitative research; quantitative research; questionnaire; realism; reductionism; refereeing; reflexivity; referencing systems; regression analysis; relativism; relevance; reliability; replication; representativeness; research assessment exercise; research community; respondent validation; retroduction; sampling; social constructionism; statistics; strategy; structuralism / post-structuralism; structure; subjectivity; survey; symbolic interactionism; systematic observation; telephone interviews; tests; textuality; transferability; triangulation; validity; value-added; values; variable analysis; virtual research; writing; writing for academic purposes; writing as representation.; Author index; Subject index.