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âœThis informative book helped me to understand research in general and to bring focus and clarity to my current research project. The text answers questions and provides guidance and support in a manner that is user-friendly and easy to comprehendâ. After reading this book, I feel empowered as a teacher-researcher and would unhesitatingly recommend it to other teacher-researchers, graduate students and educators.âFrancesca Crowther â teacher and doctoral student, Nova Scotia, Canada.

This book provides a comprehensive and detailed approach to teacher research as systematic, methodical and informed practice. It identifies five requirements for all kinds of research, and provides clear and accessible guidelines for teachers to use in conducting their own classroom-based studies.

Features:

  • A clear definition of teacher research which insists on more than âstoriesâ and anecdotal âretrospectivesâ
  • Innovative organisational structure based on the collection and anal

    Table of Contents
    Part 1: A general background to teacher research as practice

    1.An introduction to teacher research
    2.Teacher research as systematic inquiry
    3.Formulating our research purposes: Problems, questions, aims and objectives
    4.General approaches to teacher research
    5.Informing the study: some key aspects of reviewing literature
    6.Ethics and teacher research

    Part 2: Introduction to teacher research as document-based and quantitative investigation

    7.An introduction to teacher research as document-based investigation
    8.An introduction to teacher research as quantitative investigation

    Part 3: Teacher research as qualitative investigation

    9.A background to data collection in qualitative teacher research
    10.Collecting spoken data in qualitative teacher research
    11.Collecting observed data in qualitative teacher research
    12.Collecting written data in qualitative teacher research
    13.Analyzing spoken data in qualitative teacher research
    14.Analyzing observed data in qualitative teacher research
    15.Analyzing written data in qualitative teacher research

    Part 4: Research quality and reporting
    16.Quality and reporting in teacher research

    Bibliography

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      Publisher: Open University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/04/2004
      ISBN13: 9780335210640, 978-0335210640
      ISBN10: 335210643
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      âœThis informative book helped me to understand research in general and to bring focus and clarity to my current research project. The text answers questions and provides guidance and support in a manner that is user-friendly and easy to comprehendâ. After reading this book, I feel empowered as a teacher-researcher and would unhesitatingly recommend it to other teacher-researchers, graduate students and educators.âFrancesca Crowther â teacher and doctoral student, Nova Scotia, Canada.

      This book provides a comprehensive and detailed approach to teacher research as systematic, methodical and informed practice. It identifies five requirements for all kinds of research, and provides clear and accessible guidelines for teachers to use in conducting their own classroom-based studies.

      Features:

      • A clear definition of teacher research which insists on more than âstoriesâ and anecdotal âretrospectivesâ
      • Innovative organisational structure based on the collection and anal

        Table of Contents
        Part 1: A general background to teacher research as practice

        1.An introduction to teacher research
        2.Teacher research as systematic inquiry
        3.Formulating our research purposes: Problems, questions, aims and objectives
        4.General approaches to teacher research
        5.Informing the study: some key aspects of reviewing literature
        6.Ethics and teacher research

        Part 2: Introduction to teacher research as document-based and quantitative investigation

        7.An introduction to teacher research as document-based investigation
        8.An introduction to teacher research as quantitative investigation

        Part 3: Teacher research as qualitative investigation

        9.A background to data collection in qualitative teacher research
        10.Collecting spoken data in qualitative teacher research
        11.Collecting observed data in qualitative teacher research
        12.Collecting written data in qualitative teacher research
        13.Analyzing spoken data in qualitative teacher research
        14.Analyzing observed data in qualitative teacher research
        15.Analyzing written data in qualitative teacher research

        Part 4: Research quality and reporting
        16.Quality and reporting in teacher research

        Bibliography

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