School-based Research: A Guide for Education Students

✍ Scribed by Elaine Wilson (editor)

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 777
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Focused on the needs of the new classroom researcher, and those studying at graduate level education courses, School-based Research is a thorough and thoughtful guide to the research process. This Second Edition has been updated to provide further coverage on the best ways to approach, construct and carry out educational research within the classroom. It contextualizes methodological issues alongside key ideas which teachers are likely to be concerned with, such as ability grouping, pupil voice, pupil behavior, teaching approaches and pupil motivation.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title
Publisher Note
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
About the Editor
Notes on Contributors
Companion Website
Introduction: Why Should Teachers Do School-Based Research?
Section 1 Using Existing Research to Understand and Plan School-Based Research
1 Becoming a Reflexive Teacher
2 Refining the Focus for Research and Formulating a Research Question
3 Reviewing the Literature and Writing a Literature Review
Section 2 Planning School-Based Research
4 Research Design
5 Ethics in Educational Research
6 What is Educational Action Research?
7 How to Do Action Research
8 The case study
9 Building Theory from Data Grounded Theory
10 Research with Younger Children Issues and Approaches
Section 3 Data Collection
11 Data Collection
12 Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research by Teacher Researchers
13 Taking a Quantitative Approach
Section 4 Data Analysis And Presentation
14 Handling Data
15 Analysing Qualitative Data
16 Analysing Quantitative Data
17 Writing About Research
18 Disseminating Research, Blogs and Social Media
Section 5 Paradigms
19 Beyond Positivism
20 Interpretivism: Meeting Our Selves In Research
Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index