Conducting Educational Research : A Primer for Teachers and Administrators

ISBN-13: 9789460912030 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 294 str.

P. D. Morrell; J. B. Carroll

Opis

Conducting Educational Research: A Primer for Teachers and Administrators is designed to provide the step-wise, content-specific information masters students must possess to design, conduct, and disseminate a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods classroom or school research study. The text will help school professionals to see both the value of being life-long critical consumers of educational research and the merit of using research in helping them to become teacher leaders and/or change agents in their own professional settings.Specifically, the text would provide master level students with:• the background they need to see the importance of educational research in their daily professional lives• instruction in all aspects of a typical five-chapter research design (introduction/literature review/methodology/results/conclusion, discussion, implications)• the tools needed to locate and critically review published educational research• instruction on common qualitative methodologies• instruction on the types of quantitative methodologies that master level candidates would be most likely to use• knowledge of the importance of being intelligent consumers of existing research• ways to engage the student in a reflection plan for the future.