The context of educational research -- Identification and selection of a research topic -- Doing your background to the study -- Dynamics of a good research problem statement -- What makes the significance of the study plausible? -- The general purpose and specific objectives of the research -- Designing the main and the sub-research questions -- Research hypothesis and relationships with statistical tools -- Scope/delimitations of the study and definition of operational terms -- Structure of the literature review and theoretical framework -- The essence of the literature review -- The link between theory, empirical studies and research -- Methodological issues -- The synergy between paradigms and research approaches -- Research designs: meaning, rationales and types -- The research study site -- Target population, samples and sample selection -- Selecting your instruments for data collection -- Validity, reliability, piloting and instrument trustworthiness -- Data collection procedures -- Data analysis and interpretation procedures -- Ethical issues in humanities, social sciences and science education -- Reporting the research product -- Presentation of qualitative research results -- Hypothesis testing and reporting of quantitative research results -- Presentation of the summary of the research findings -- Discussion of the research findings -- Key steps in presenting the summary of a study -- Writing a good conclusion to a study -- Writing limitations, recommendations and suggestions for further studies -- Avoiding plagiarism and writing good references in research.