11.   The research methods will include classroom observation, interviews with teachers and analysis of curriculum documents and of other support.

12.   The research will draw on a number of research methods.

13.   Too many students write far too little about their research methods in the proposal as well as the final research report.

14.   It is possible to determine the most appropriate sub-disciplinary research method for each area, or at least those techniques most often used.

15.   Research methods are to be treated as a collection of tools designed and thereby suited for particular jobs.

16.   The foregoing discussion has tried to make and illustrate the point that research methods cannot stand in isolation from the theoretical and conceptual issues which constitute the social sciences.

17.   This diffuseness was paralleled by a marked degree of confusion over the appropriate research methods to use in empirical studies.