Search and re-search: What the inquiring teacher needs to know

by Rita S. Brause (Editor), John S. Mayher (Editor)

Overview

Provides guidance on how to read research and how to conduct research in the classroom. It aims to engender in teachers an awareness of the possibility of research to broaden their outlook of their profession.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135386207
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/31/2002
Series:	Teachers' Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	875 KB

About the Author

Rita S. Brause, John S. Mayher

Table of Contents

Part 1 An inquiring/learning perspective: new lenses for old problems - what we believe is what we see, John S.Mayher; the neverending cycle of teacher growth, John S.Mayher and Rita S.Brause. Part 2 Interpreting published research on classroom practice: research objectives - generating hypotheses, testing hypotheses and critiquing educational practice, Rita S.Brause and John.S.Mayher; reading and understanding hypothesis testing research, William L.Smith; reading hypothesis generating research, Ken Kantor. Part 3 Designing and conducting classroom research: finding and framing questions, John S.Mayher and Rita S.Brause; collecting and analyzing classroom data in theory and in practice, Rita S.Brause and John S.Mayher; testing hypotheses in our classrooms, James L.Collins; generating hypotheses in our classrooms, Rita S.Brause; concluding and beginning, John S.Mayher and Rita S.Brause.