Offers a practical toolkit to help you plan, conduct and follow up your research. This work contains information on the range of methods available to researchers, and introduces some of the key concepts associated with education research.

This textbook, designed to meet the needs of students on the teaching assistant foundation degree, provides an accessible overview of the teaching assistant's role, incorporating practical tasks that will challenge students to reflect on and improve their day-to-day practice.
Set within a wider educational context, and full of thoroughly grounded advice throughout, this book includes:

• personal professional development - helping teaching assistants to understand their role and their workplace
• growth, development and learning - introducing the basic theories human...