Educational Research, Policymaking and Practice
ISBN: 9780761974208 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Educational research and its relationship with policy making and practice has been a perennial concern. This book deals with some basic and controversial questions about that issue, including: - Can there be harmony in the relationship between researchers and educational policymakers or practitioners? - Do increases in knowledge always lead to practical improvement, and never to undesirable consequences? - Would educational research flourish if it were subjected to more central, and external, control? - What is the role of research reviews in making the... Educational research and its relationship with policy making and practice has been a perennial concern. This book deals with some basic and controv... |
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257,04 zł |
Research on Effective Models for Teacher Education: Teacher Education Yearbook VIII
ISBN: 9780761976165 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is an essential resource for all post secondary education faculty and should be included in programs devoted to understanding the impact of teacher education on teachers and their students.
It is an essential resource for all post secondary education faculty and should be included in programs devoted to understanding the impact of teacher...
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167,84 zł |
Making Sense of Research: What′s Good, What′s Not, and How to Tell the Difference
ISBN: 9780761977087 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is for practitioners at all levels, from teachers making site-specific decisions to administrators making schoolwide and policy decisions.
This book is for practitioners at all levels, from teachers making site-specific decisions to administrators making schoolwide and policy decisions.
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162,60 zł |
Doing a Doctorate in Educational Ethnography
ISBN: 9780762309061 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book draws together a series of semi-autobiographical reflexive accounts of the process of doing a doctorate using educational ethnography. The individual studies include research into school effectiveness, the experiences of Asian teenagers, sexual cultures in the primary school, mature students on Access courses, primary school management, the experiences of children with special educational needs, and teachers' work intensification
This book draws together a series of semi-autobiographical reflexive accounts of the process of doing a doctorate using educational ethnography. The i...
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975,93 zł |
Using Video in Teacher Education
ISBN: 9780762310487 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book features contribution from people who have developed and used video in teacher education. The focus is on video as opposed to other technology (e-mail, etc.) and its use in teacher education. The video can be stored on videotapes, CD-Rom, DVD, or computer drives, and it can be used in either preservice or inservice teacher education/professional development programmes. education programmes or courses and talk about how they use it, focusing in particular on principles for: making the videos (decisions about how and what to capture on video, the degree to which the teaching should be...
This book features contribution from people who have developed and used video in teacher education. The focus is on video as opposed to other technolo...
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519,11 zł |
Learning from Research on Teaching: Perspective, Methodology, and Representation
ISBN: 9780762312542 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is designed to accomplish three primary purposes: illustrate a variety of qualitative methods that researchers have used to study teaching and teacher education; assess the affordances and constraints of these methods and the ways that they focus and shape explorations of teaching; and, illuminate representative questions and findings associated with each method described. The book is organized around three issues that impact research in qualitative paradigms: perspective, methodology, and representation. The first section, 'Perspective: Whom Should I Ask?' explores what can be...
This volume is designed to accomplish three primary purposes: illustrate a variety of qualitative methods that researchers have used to study teaching...
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871,35 zł |
The Impact of Comparative Education Research on Institutional Theory
ISBN: 9780762313082 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of
In light of the impact that comparative education research has had on institutional theory, the chapters in this volume ask where the comparative and... This volume of
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519,11 zł |
Training Through Dialogue: Promoting Effective Learning and Change with Adults
ISBN: 9780787901356 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lively, step-by-step approach to training the trainers of adults. Using numerous examples from a variety of settings, author Jane Vella compels instructors to critically examine their old teaching model and discover a new experience in education.
A lively, step-by-step approach to training the trainers of adults. Using numerous examples from a variety of settings, author Jane Vella compels inst...
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171,16 zł |
Professional Development as Transformative Learning: New Perspectives for Teachers of Adults
ISBN: 9780787901974 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This creative and pioneering book adapts and extAnds the transformation theory of adult learning to the professional development of adult educators. Well written and easy to read, with many examples, this volume is highly recommAnded.
?Jack Mezirow, emeritus professor of adult education, Teachers College, Columbia University This creative and pioneering book adapts and extAnds the transformation theory of adult learning to the professional development of adult educators. W...
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198,78 zł |
The Art and Science of Portraiture
ISBN: 9780787910648 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -The writing is beautiful, the ideas persuasive, and the picture it paints of the process of careful observation is one that every writer should read. . . . A rich and wonderful book.-
--American Journal of Education A landmark contribution to the field of research methodology, this remarkable book illuminates the origins, purposes, and features of portraiture--placing it within the larger discourse on social science inquiry and mapping it onto the broader terrain of qualitative research. -The writing is beautiful, the ideas persuasive, and the picture it paints of the process of careful observation is one that every writer should read....
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283,74 zł |
Issues in Education Research: Problems and Possibilities
ISBN: 9780787948108 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sponsored by the National Academy of Education's Commission on the Improvement of Education Research
It has been a decade since the National Academy of Education last issued a review of education research. This new volume arrives at a critical time for our nation's schools. More than twenty prominent scholars provide an overview of the tensions, dilemmas, issues, and possibilities that currently characterize education research. They examine the state of education research, discuss how it is changing and where it needs to go, and reveal how the results of research--whether good or... Sponsored by the National Academy of Education's Commission on the Improvement of Education Research
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276,15 zł |
An Education Research Primer: How to Understand, Evaluate and Use It
ISBN: 9780787983239 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Produced by Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), one of the nation's foremost educational research and training organizations, An Education Research Primer gives educators a basic understanding of educational research, its guiding criteria, and its relevance to school-based decision-making. In clear and concise language the book summarizes the various types of educational research, explaining their diverse purposes and methods. For example, the difference between experimental research (studies involving control group trials) and descriptive research (based on...
Produced by Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), one of the nation's foremost educational research and training organizations, <...
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185,90 zł |
Applying Economics to Institutional Research : New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 132
ISBN: 9780787995768 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides an overview of the many ways that economic concepts, models, and methods have been, and can be, applied to higher education problems encountered in institutional research. The chapter authors are uniquely qualified to provide this perspective: all are higher education researchers who have received graduate training in economics and have substantial experience working directly in institutional research. The chapters in this volume focus on the economist's perspective on education costs and revenues, how economics can inform enrollment management efforts, and how...
This volume provides an overview of the many ways that economic concepts, models, and methods have been, and can be, applied to higher education probl...
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121,45 zł |
Information Technology in Educational Research and Statistics
ISBN: 9780789009586 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book focuses on creating new ideas for using educational technologies such as the Internet, the World Wide Web, and various software packages to further research and statistics. You will explore on-going debates relating to the theory of research, research methodology, and successful practices. Information Technology in Educational Research and Statistics also covers the debate on what statistical procedures are appropriate for what kinds of research designs.
This important book focuses on creating new ideas for using educational technologies such as the Internet, the World Wide Web, and various software pa...
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550,92 zł |
Information Technology in Educational Research and Statistics
ISBN: 9780789009760 / Angielski / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book focuses on creating new ideas for using educational technologies such as the Internet, the World Wide Web, and various software packages to further research and statistics. You will explore on-going debates relating to the theory of research, research methodology, and successful practices. Information Technology in Educational Research and Statistics also covers the debate on what statistical procedures are appropriate for what kinds of research designs.
This important book focuses on creating new ideas for using educational technologies such as the Internet, the World Wide Web, and various software pa...
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367,23 zł |
Integrating Information Technology Into the Teacher Education Curriculum: Process and Products of Change
ISBN: 9780789026279 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As teaching evolves, teacher education must keep up. This book examines systemic reforms that incorporate new technology to improve any teacher education program.
While there are books that address the integration of technology into teaching curricula, very few address the process for teacher education faculty and the systemic reform of a teacher education program. Integrating Information Technology into the Teacher Education Curriculum: Process and Products of Change provides practical examples and suggestions for teacher education departments striving to integrate new... As teaching evolves, teacher education must keep up. This book examines systemic reforms that incorporate new technology to improve any teacher educat...
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167,84 zł |
Integrating Information Technology Into the Teacher Education Curriculum: Process and Products of Change
ISBN: 9780789026286 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As teaching evolves, teacher education must keep up. This book examines systemic reforms that incorporate new technology to improve any teacher education program.While there are books that address the integration of technology into teaching curricula, very few address the process for teacher education faculty and the systemic reform of a teacher education program. Integrating Information Technology into the Teacher Education Curriculum: Process and Products of Change provides practical examples and suggestions for teacher education departments striving to integrate new technologies into their...
As teaching evolves, teacher education must keep up. This book examines systemic reforms that incorporate new technology to improve any teacher educat...
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104,88 zł |
Critical Theory and Educational Research
ISBN: 9780791423684 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors to this anthology bring North American research traditions into conversation with the latest advances in French, German, British, and Latin American schools of social thought. Challenging the very precepts of many empirical and analytical approaches to understanding educational phenomena, this collection of essays is indispensable for educators wishing to understand present philosophical debates. The future of educational research in the United States will largely depend on how teachers and researchers deal with the urgent issues raised in this timely and iconoclastic...
The contributors to this anthology bring North American research traditions into conversation with the latest advances in French, German, British, and...
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148,95 zł |
Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts Toward a Double(d) Science
ISBN: 9780791470589 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this follow-up to her classic text Troubling the Angels, an experimental ethnography of women with AIDS, Patti Lather deconstructs her earlier work to articulate methodology out of practice and to answer the question: What would practices of research look like that were a response to the call of the wholly other? She addresses some of the key issues challenging social scientists today, such as power relations with subjects in the field, the crisis in representation, difference, deconstruction, praxis, ethics, responsibility, objectivity, narrative strategy, and situatedness. Including a...
In this follow-up to her classic text Troubling the Angels, an experimental ethnography of women with AIDS, Patti Lather deconstructs her earlier work...
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140,89 zł |
Constructing Test Items: Multiple-Choice, Constructed-Response, Performance and Other Formats
ISBN: 9780792380771 / Angielski / Twarda / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Constructing test items for standardized tests of achievement, ability, and aptitude is a task of enormous importance. The interpretability of a test's scores flows directly from the quality of its items and exercises. Concomitant with score interpretability is the notion that including only carefully crafted items on a test is the primary method by which the skilled test developer reduces unwanted error variance, or errors of measurement, and thereby increases a test score's reliability. The aim of this entire book is to increase the test constructor's awareness of this source of measurement...
Constructing test items for standardized tests of achievement, ability, and aptitude is a task of enormous importance. The interpretability of a test'...
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586,33 zł |