A Teacher's Guide To Classroom Research
Publisher: McGraw-Hill International (UK) Ltd.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Maidenhead
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780335236787
Subjects: Classroom management
Description: A guide for teachers who wish to conduct research in their classrooms and for schools that wish to improve their practice. It describes how classroom research helps teachers to enhance their teaching, to test the assumptions of educational theory in practice and to implement and evaluate whole school developments.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright page; Dedication; Series Editor; Contents; Preface to the fourth edition; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 A teacher's guide to classroom research; Chapter 2 Classroom research in action; Chapter 3 Why classroom research by teachers?; Chapter 4 Action research and classroomresearch by teachers; Chapter 5 Developing a focus; Chapter 6 Principles of classroom observation; Chapter 7 Methods of observation in classroom research; Chapter 8 Data gathering; Chapter 9 Analysing classroom research data; Chapter 10 Reporting classroom research.; title: Chapter 11 Teaching and learning as the heartland of classroom researchChapter 12 Teacher research, the creation of professional learning communities and the transformation of schooling; Appendix Ethics for classroom research; Bibliography; Index; Back cover.