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School-based research : a guide for education students / edited by Elaine Wilson

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLondon ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, 2013Edition: second editionDescription: xvii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781446247495
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB1028.25.G7 SCH
Contents:
Introduction. Why should teachers do school-based research? -- SECTION 1. Using existing research to understand and plan school-based research. Becoming a reflexive teacher / Elaine Wilson -- Refining the focus for research and formulating a research question / Elaine Wilson -- Reviewing the literature and writing a literature review / Elaine Wilson -- Research with younger children: issues and approaches / Paul Warwick, Roland Chaplain -- SECTION 2. Carrying out and reporting on classroom-based research. Research design / Elaine Wilson -- Ethics in educational research / Kris Stutchbury -- Data collection / Elaine Wilson, Alison Fox -- Handling data / Elaine Wilson, Alison Fox -- Reliability and validity in qualitative research by teacher researchers / Michael Evans -- Analysing qualitative data / Michael Evans -- Taking a quantitative approach / Mark Winterbottom -- Analysing quantitative data / Ros McLellan -- Writing about your research / Elaine Wilson -- SECTION 3. Methodologies. What is educational action research? / Elaine Wilson -- How to do action research / Elaine Wilson -- The case study / Helen Demetriou -- Building theory from data: grounded theory / Keith S. Taber -- SECTION 4. Paradigms. Beyond positivism: s̀cientific' research into education / Keith S. Taber -- Interpretivism: meeting our selves in research / Christine Counsell -- Conclusion -- Glossary
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Previous ed.: 2009

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-348) and index

Introduction. Why should teachers do school-based research? -- SECTION 1. Using existing research to understand and plan school-based research. Becoming a reflexive teacher / Elaine Wilson -- Refining the focus for research and formulating a research question / Elaine Wilson -- Reviewing the literature and writing a literature review / Elaine Wilson -- Research with younger children: issues and approaches / Paul Warwick, Roland Chaplain -- SECTION 2. Carrying out and reporting on classroom-based research. Research design / Elaine Wilson -- Ethics in educational research / Kris Stutchbury -- Data collection / Elaine Wilson, Alison Fox -- Handling data / Elaine Wilson, Alison Fox -- Reliability and validity in qualitative research by teacher researchers / Michael Evans -- Analysing qualitative data / Michael Evans -- Taking a quantitative approach / Mark Winterbottom -- Analysing quantitative data / Ros McLellan -- Writing about your research / Elaine Wilson -- SECTION 3. Methodologies. What is educational action research? / Elaine Wilson -- How to do action research / Elaine Wilson -- The case study / Helen Demetriou -- Building theory from data: grounded theory / Keith S. Taber -- SECTION 4. Paradigms. Beyond positivism: s̀cientific' research into education / Keith S. Taber -- Interpretivism: meeting our selves in research / Christine Counsell -- Conclusion -- Glossary

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