School-based research :  a guide for education students / 
edited by Elaine Wilson 
 - second edition 
 - xvii, 357 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Previous ed.: 2009 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-348) and index 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781446247495 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Education--Research
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB1028.25.G7 SCH