School-based Research
A Guide for Education Students
Third Edition
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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:
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 programs 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.
Contents
SECTION 1: Using existing research to understand and plan school-based research
- Ch1: Becoming a reflexive teacher
- Ch2: Refining the focus for research and formulating a research question
- Ch3: Reviewing the literature and writing a literature review
SECTION 2: Planning school-based research
- Ch4: Planning research
- Ch5: Ethics in educational research
- Ch6: What is educational action research?
- Ch7: How to do action research
- Ch8: The case study
- Ch9: Building theory from data: grounded theory
- Ch10: Research with younger children: Issues and approaches
SECTION 3: Data collection
- Ch11: Data collection
- Ch12: Reliability and validity in qualitative research by teacher researchers
- Ch13: Taking a quantitative approach
- Ch14: Handling and analysing data
SECTION 4: Data analysis and presentation
- Ch15: Analysing qualitative data
- Ch16: Analysing quantitative data
- Ch17: Writing about your research
- Ch18: Disseminating research knowledge
SECTION 5: Paradigms
- Ch19: Beyond positivism: ‘scientific’ research into education
- Ch20: Interpretivism: meeting our selves in research
Description
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:
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 programs 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.
Contents
SECTION 1: Using existing research to understand and plan school-based research
- Ch1: Becoming a reflexive teacher
- Ch2: Refining the focus for research and formulating a research question
- Ch3: Reviewing the literature and writing a literature review
SECTION 2: Planning school-based research
- Ch4: Planning research
- Ch5: Ethics in educational research
- Ch6: What is educational action research?
- Ch7: How to do action research
- Ch8: The case study
- Ch9: Building theory from data: grounded theory
- Ch10: Research with younger children: Issues and approaches
SECTION 3: Data collection
- Ch11: Data collection
- Ch12: Reliability and validity in qualitative research by teacher researchers
- Ch13: Taking a quantitative approach
- Ch14: Handling and analysing data
SECTION 4: Data analysis and presentation
- Ch15: Analysing qualitative data
- Ch16: Analysing quantitative data
- Ch17: Writing about your research
- Ch18: Disseminating research knowledge
SECTION 5: Paradigms
- Ch19: Beyond positivism: ‘scientific’ research into education
- Ch20: Interpretivism: meeting our selves in research
Reviews
April 2017 | 416 pages | Sage UK
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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:
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 programs 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.
Table Of Contents:
- SECTION 1: Using existing research to understand and plan school-based research
- Ch1: Becoming a reflexive teacher
- Ch2: Refining the focus for research and formulating a research question
- Ch3: Reviewing the literature and writing a literature review
- SECTION 2: Planning school-based research
- Ch4: Planning research
- Ch5: Ethics in educational research
- Ch6: What is educational action research?
- Ch7: How to do action research
- Ch8: The case study
- Ch9: Building theory from data: grounded theory
- Ch10: Research with younger children: Issues and approaches
- SECTION 3: Data collection
- Ch11: Data collection
- Ch12: Reliability and validity in qualitative research by teacher researchers
- Ch13: Taking a quantitative approach
- Ch14: Handling and analysing data
- SECTION 4: Data analysis and presentation
- Ch15: Analysing qualitative data
- Ch16: Analysing quantitative data
- Ch17: Writing about your research
- Ch18: Disseminating research knowledge
- SECTION 5: Paradigms
- Ch19: Beyond positivism: ‘scientific’ research into education
- Ch20: Interpretivism: meeting our selves in research
Recent Product Reviews:
I would thoroughly recommend this latest edition of an already comprehensive guide. The breadth and depth of coverage are impressive and make this book invaluable reading for any education student planning to complete their research project within a school setting. Of particular merit are the very accessible chapters on research paradigms, and the insightful new chapter on disseminating research, blogs and social media.
Noel Purdy, Stranmillis University College