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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage, 2017.Edition: 3rd EditionDescription: xviii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1473969034
  • 9781473969032
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.72 WIL
Contents:
Becoming a reflexive teacher -- Refining the focus for research and formulating a research question -- Reviewing literature and writing a literature review -- Research design -- Ethics in educational research -- What is educational action research -- How to do action research -- The case study -- Building theory from data: grounded theory -- Research with younger children: issues and approaches -- data collection -- Reliability in qualitative research by teacher researchers -- Taking a quantitative approach -- Handling data -- Analysing qualitative data -- Analysing quantitative data -- Writing about research -- Disseminating research, blogs and social media -- Beyond positivism -- Interpretivism: meeting our selves in research.
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 370.72 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100630996

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Focused on the needs of the new classroom researcher, and those studying education on Masters-level courses, this is a thorough and thoughtful guide to the research process, covering qualitative, quantitative and mixed research methods. It guides you through research design, data collection and analysis and how to write up your research findings.

This third edition has been updated to provide further coverage on the best ways to approach, construct and carry out educational research within the classroom including:

a new chapter on disseminating research knowledge expanded coverage of formulating research questions a reworked chapter structure better reflecting the research process

This is essential reading for students on education degree programmes including a research methods component, including education studies, undergraduate (BEd, BA with QTS) and postgraduate (PGCE, School Direct, Teach First, SCITT) initial teacher education courses, MEd and professional development courses.

Online resources expanding on and complementing the contents of the book can be found at: study.sagepub.com/wilsonsbr3e

Includes glosary (pages 371-373), references (pages 374-384) and index (pages 385-391).

Becoming a reflexive teacher -- Refining the focus for research and formulating a research question -- Reviewing literature and writing a literature review -- Research design -- Ethics in educational research -- What is educational action research -- How to do action research -- The case study -- Building theory from data: grounded theory -- Research with younger children: issues and approaches -- data collection -- Reliability in qualitative research by teacher researchers -- Taking a quantitative approach -- Handling data -- Analysing qualitative data -- Analysing quantitative data -- Writing about research -- Disseminating research, blogs and social media -- Beyond positivism -- Interpretivism: meeting our selves in research.

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