Doing classroom research : a step-by-step guide for student teachers

✍ Scribed by Sally Elton-Chalcraft; Alice Hansen; Sam Twiselton

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 194
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There has been a national move for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes to support students working at master's level in some of their courses. This guide contains three sections that mirror the progression from novice researcher to practitioner researcher.

Content: What's in it for me? / Sally Elton-Chalcraft, Alice Hansen and Samantha Twiselton --
Moving from reflective practitioner to practitioner / Mike Ollerton --
Survival skills / Sarah Hall and Ruth Jones --
Information skills for classroom research / James Fraser and Hannah Hough --
Ethical issues / Patricia Macpherson and Edward Tyson --
Reliability and validity / Martyn Lawson and Carey Philpott --
Doing research in the classroom / Deborah Roberts and Adrian Copping --
Intervention, innovation and creativity in the classroom : using findings to improve practice / Adrian Copping and Dennis Howlett --
Collaborative research / Des Hewitt --
Analysis of data / Sandra Eady --
Presenting research in writing / Sue Pope --
Presenting research in a range of forums / Sandra Eady --
Next steps / Helen Scott.
Abstract:

Written in an informal style, this is the essential, practical and accessible step-by-step guide for all teacher-training students, who in addition to facing the enormous challenge of training to become a teacher, also have to conduct their own classroom-based research. Read more...