A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Research

Author: David Hopkins
Publisher: Open University Press
Category: Social Research & Statistics, Teaching Resources & Education, Teaching Resources & Education, Teaching Skills & Techniques, Teaching Skills & Techniques
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback

A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Research 5E is a great 'one-stop' guide for trainee or qualified teachers looking to undertake classroom research.

Through its friendly, supportive and authoritative approach, A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Research 5E tackles the big issues and questions of education research and offers a clear framework for doing classroom research. The updated fifth edition retains all the features that have made it so popular over the past thirty years - such as a rich range of insightful case studies demonstrating successful classroom research in practice - whilst offering expanded coverage of research methods and techniques.

Key features include:

  • How to get started on classroom research
  • The principles and methods of classroom research for professional learning
  • Interpreting and analyzing data
  • Reporting classroom research
  • Linking to teaching and learning
Whether you are a trainee teacher undertaking some form of classroom-based research as an essential element of your teacher training course, or a qualified teacher doing research to explore and improve your practice, this classic and seminal text guides and supports you throughout the entire process from initial research idea to final dissemination.

Table Of Contents
Preface to the fifth edition

AcknowledgementsA teacher's guide to classroom research

Classroom research in action

Why classroom research by teachers?

Action research and classroom research by teachers

Developing a focus

Principles of classroom observation

Methods of observation in classroom research

Data gathering

Analysing classroom research data

Reporting classroom research

Teaching and learning as the heartland of classroom research

Teacher research, school improvement and system reform
Bibliography

Index
About David Hopkins
David Hopkins is the inaugural HSBC Chair in International Leadership, International arm of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. Between 2002 and 2005 he served three Secretary of States as the Chief Adviser on School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills. Previously, he was Chair of the Leicester City Partnership Board and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Nottingham. David is also an International Mountain Guide who still climbs regularly in the Alps and Himalayas. He has previously outlined his views on teaching quality, school improvement and large scale reform in Hopkins D. (2001) School Improvement for Real, Routledge / Falmer and Hopkins D (2007) Every School a Great School, Open University Press.

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