Vitenskapsteori og utvikling av forskningsspørsmål
Crotty, Michael (2015). The Foundations of Social Research. Meaning and Perspective in the Research Process. London: Sage. [NB! Reprint av utgave fra 1998, bøker med begge trykkeår kan brukes.]
Grue, J. (2015). Teori i praksis. Analysestrategier i akademisk arbeid. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
Survey og kvantitative design
Gall, M.D., Gall, J.P. l & Borg, W.(2007). Educational Research. An Introduction. New York: Longman Publishers. 8th Ed.
Lund, T. (red.) ( 2002). Innføring i forskningsmetodologi. Oslo: Unipub forlag.
De Vaus, D.A. (2014). Surveys in Social Research. An Introduction. 6th Ed. London: Routledge.
Kvalitativ metode
Tjora, Aksel (red.) (2017). Kvalitative forskningsmetoder i praksis. 3. Utgave. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk.
Maxwell, J. A. (1992). Understanding and Validity in Qualitative Research. I: Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 62, No. 3. Side 279-300
Observasjon
Mashburn, A. J., Pianta, R. C., Hamre, B. K., Downer, J. T., Barbarin, O. A., Bryant, D., ... & Howes, C. (2008). Measures of classroom quality in prekindergarten and children’s development of academic, language, and social skills. Child development, 79(3), 732-749.
Kleven, Thor Arnfinn (2008). Validity and validation in qualitative and quantitative research. Nordisk pedagogikk 2008 nr. 03
Tekst- og dokumentanalyse, samt kildestudier
Karianne Skovholt og Aslaug Veum 2014: Tekstanalyse. Ei innføring. Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk
Jenssen, Eirik s. (2011). «Jeg føler jeg har veldig lite ordinær undervisning i den klassen.» Spesialpedagogikk, nr. 7 / 2011.
Grounded Theory
Charmaz, K. ( 2014). Constructing Grounded Theory. 2nd Ed. London: Sage Publication.
De Schauwer, Elisabeth, et al. "‘I Need Help on Mondays, It’s Not My Day. The Other Days, I’m OK’.—Perspectives of Disabled Children on Inclusive Education." Children & Society 23.2 (2009): 99-111.
Intervju
Dalen, M. (2011). Intervju som forskningsmetode - en kvalitativ tilnærming. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Sigstad, H.M.H. (2014). Characteristic interviews, different strategies: Methodological challenges in qualitative interviewing among respondents with mild intellectual disabilities. I: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, Vol.18, No.2. Side 186-200.
Narrativ analyse
Labov, William; Waletzky, Joshua. Narrative analysis: Oral versions of personal experience. Journal of Narrative & Life History, Vol 7(1-4), 1997, 3-38.
Argumentasjonsanalyse
Kelly, Gregory J., Stephen Druker, and Catherine Chen. "Students’ reasoning about electricity: Combining performance assessments with argumentation analysis." International journal of science education 20.7 (1998): 849-871.
Simon, Shirley. "Using Toulmin’s argument pattern in the evaluation of argumentation in school science." International Journal of Research & Method in Education 31.3 (2008): 277-289.
Etikk
NESH publikasjon: Forskningsetiske retningslinjer for samfunnskunnskap, jus og humaniora, 2016. Elektronisk publisert www.etikkom.no
Statistikk
Anbefalte gratis kurs/ressurser online: “OpenIntro Statistics”: https://www.openintro.org/
Valgfri pensumbok «Discovering Statistics»: https://www.discoveringstatistics.com/books/dsus/