School-based research : a guide for education students /: a guide for education students. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] Elaine Wilson.
• Other Names: Wilson, Elaine
• Contents: Introduction: Why should teachers do school-based research?; PART ONE: 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 and Roland Chaplain; PART TWO: CARRYING OUT AND REPORTING ON CLASSROOM-BASED RESEARCH; Research Design - Elaine Wilson; Ethics in Educational Research - Kris Stutchbury; Data Collection - Elaine Wilson and Alison Fox; Handling Data - Elaine Wilson and 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; PART THREE: 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; PART FOUR: PARADIGMS; Beyond Positivism: 'Scientific' Research into Education - Keith S Taber; Interpretivism: Meeting Our Selves in Research - Christine Counsell; Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (376 pages)
• Subjects: 370.7/2; Education -- Research
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446289617; 1446289613
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