Title: Educational Research in an Age of Accountability
First published: October 2, 2006
Description: Educational Research In an Age of Accountability is designed to enable students to become intelligent consumers of educational research in order to help create effective and accountable learning environments. Written in a very clear and user-friendly style, this text focuses on understanding the intent of the researcher as well as the research procedures and results so that students can use appropriate findings to inform school change. This text emphasizes how responses to the accountability movement in schools can be focused around using and understanding scientific inquiry. It balances quantitative and qualitative research methodology and discusses action research and mixed methods in detail. - Back cover.
Subjects: Education, Research, Education, research
LC classification: LB1028 .S525 2007