 | An Introduction to Educational Research: Connecting Methods
Introduction to Educational Research: Connecting Methods to Practice
by Chad Lochmiller and Jessica Lester
Expand your understanding of educational research with this practice-first introduction. Written specifically for education practitioners, An Introduction to Educational Research: Connecting Methods to Practice approaches research methods from a practice-first perspective that aligns research with professional experiences and identifies the tools and resources readers can use when conducting their own research.
Throughout the book, the authors illuminate complex research concepts using problems of practice confronting educators to help readers make meaningful connections with key concepts and research practices. The authors present balanced coverage across research methodologies that is linked to practice, so readers clearly see research as a tool they can use to improve classrooms, schools, districts, and educational organizations.
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| 9781483319506 |
 | Diagnostic Inventory of School Alignment (DISA)
HOW TUNEFUL IS YOUR SCHOOL?
Do you need comprehensive data for school planning for improvement?
Welcome to the Diagnostic Inventory of School Alignment (DISA) tool.
About the Tool
What is the Diagnostic Inventory of School Alignment (DISA)?
The purpose of the DISA is to provide schools with information on which to base judgements about leverages for school improvement. DISA is an online tool that you can use to examine your school’s overall alignment and is comprised of three surveys customised for each of staff, parents, and students.
NOTE: Please note that survey processing takes 1-3 Business days on average, but we recommend orders are submitted as early as possible.
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| DISA |
 | Doing Your Education Research Project 2ed
Author: Neil Burton, Mark Brundrett and Marion Jones
If you are a trainee teacher or experienced practitioner new to research, or are simply wondering how to get started on your education research project, this practical book will be your guide. The authors offer simple steps to ensure that you ask the key questions in the most effective way possible. The book guides you through the entire research process: from clarifying the context and conceptual background, to presenting and analysing the evidence gathered.
Supported by examples, checklists and diagrams, this fully revised and updated edition includes a wealth of information on: - research design - evidence gathering techniques - practitioner research - ethics - data analysis techniques. This book will be valuable to anyone newly embarking on a research or a professional or school development project, whatever stage they are at within the teaching community, from training for QTS, higher degree, or in need of evidence-backed decisions for the strategic development of their school.
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| 9781446266779 |
 | Dynamics of News and Indigenous Policy in Australia
by Kerry McCallum and Lisa Waller
This book offers rich insights into the news media’s role in the development of policy in Australia, and explores the complex and interactive relationship between news media and Australian Indigenous affairs.
Kerry McCallum and Lisa Waller critically examine how Indigenous health, bilingual education, and controversial legislation are portrayed through public media, and they look closely at how Indigenous people are both being excluded from policy and media discussion, as well as using the media to their advantage.
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| 9781783208128 |
 | Education for Purposeful Teaching Around the World
Edited by Kirsi Tirri, Seana Moran, Jennifer Menon Mariano
Purpose can be seen as a key promoter in both professional growth and resilience for teachers. As a result, in many countries around the world, the purpose of education and the role of schools as supports for purpose development are growing as important topics of scientific research and educational debate.
A conceptual shift is occurring in several countries: the purpose of education is becoming an education for purpose. In this book, researchers around the world examine what a shift toward an education for purpose looks like across several cultures. Teachers around the world should be explicitly educated for competencies that make purposeful and purpose-oriented teaching possible.
The goal of teacher education is to educate teachers not only to teach knowledge content, but also to reflect on the purposefulness of their teaching: Why do their lessons and activities matter? What immediate impact and long-term effects do their teaching efforts have on the pupils as well as the communities in which pupils interact?
This chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education for Teaching.
CONTENTS
Preface Peter Gilroy
Introduction- Education for purposeful teaching around the world Kirsi Tirri, Seana Moran and Jenni Menon Mariano
1. Finnish student teachers’ perceptions on the role of purpose in teaching Kirsi Tirri and Elina Kuusisto
2. Finnish and Iranian teachers’ views on their competence to teach purpose Elina Kuusisto, Khalil Gholami and Kirsi Tirri
3. Principles and methods to guide education for purpose: a Brazilian experience Ulisses F. Araujo, Valeria Amorim Arantes, Hanna Cebel Danza, Viviane Potenza Guimarães Pinheiro and Monica Garbin
4. The influence of Chinese college teachers’ competence for purpose support on students’ purpose development Fei Jiang, Shan Lin and Jenni Menon Mariano
5. What do teachers think about youth purpose? Seana Moran
6. Learning from the wisdom of practice: teachers’ educational purposes as pathways to supporting adolescent purpose in secondary classrooms Brandy P. Quinn
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| 9780815392064 |
 | Educational Research
Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches 6ed
by R Johnson and Larry Christensen
Assuming no prior knowledge, Educational Research by R. Burke Johnson and Larry Christensen offers a comprehensive, easily digestible introductory research methods text for undergraduate and graduate students. Readers will develop an understanding of the multiple research methods and strategies used in education and related fields; how to read and critically evaluate published research; and the ability to write a proposal, construct a questionnaire, and conduct an empirical research study on their own. Students rave about the clarity of this best seller and its usefulness for their studies, enabling them to become critical consumers and users of research.
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| 9781483391601 |
 | Effective Teachers = Student Achievement:What the Research S
Effective Teachers = Student Achievement: What the Research Says Research has shown that there is no greater influence on a student's success than the quality of his or her teacher. This book presents the research findings which demonstrate the connection between teacher effectiveness and student achievement. We've always known, at least intuitively, that teachers matter, but this book proves that teachers are the most powerful factors ensuring student success. Author James Stronge describes and explains the value-added teacher-assessment research that has emerged in the past decade and demystifies the power and practices of effective teachers.
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| EYE9911 |
 | Finnish Lessons 2.0: What Can the World Learn From Education
Finnish Lessons 2.0: What Can the World Learn From Educational Change in Finland? Second Edition
Author - Pasi Sahlberg
Pasi Sahlberg has thoroughly updated his ground-breaking account of how Finland built a world-class education system during the past four decades. In this international bestseller, Sahlberg traces the evolution of Finnish education policies and highlights how they differ from the United States and much of the rest of the world.
Featuring substantial additions throughout the text, Finnish Lessons 2.0 demonstrates how systematically focusing on teacher and leader professionalism, building trust between the society and its schools, and investing in educational equity rather than competition, choice and other market-based reforms make Finnish schools an international model of success.
This second edition details the complexity of meaningful change by illustrating Finland’s educational performance in light of the most recent international assessment data, including PISA 2012, TIMSS 2011, PIAAC 2013, and TALIS 2013.
In the midst of continuous local reforms and global changes, Finnish Lessons 2.0 encourages educators, students and policymakers to look beyond their own borders as they seek successful solutions for their education systems, districts and schools.
ISBN: 9781760016210
No of Pages: 192
Publish Date: 11 December 2015
HB
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| TCP6210 |
 | Flip The System UK: A Teachers’ Manifesto
Flip The System UK: A Teachers’ Manifesto
Lucy Rycroft-Smith, Jean-Louis Dutaut
How did we let teacher burn-out happen, and what can we do about it – before it's too late?
This brave and disruptive book accurately defines the problems of low teacher morale and offers systemic, future-proof and realistic solutions to bringing hope, energy and joy back to the profession. The simple answer is staring us in the face: increase teacher agency. Our rallying cry: our profession needs a return to values of humanity, pride, and professionalism.
From research literacy to a collective voice, better CPD to smarter accountability, contributors to this book demonstrate the huge scope for increased teacher influence at every level of the education sector. Education voices including Sam Twiselton, Alison Peacock, David Weston and Andy Hargreaves, supported by a broad range of academics and policy makers, vouch for increased teacher agency and stronger, more powerful networks as a means of improving practice, combatting teacher disillusionment, and radically improving UK education. This text offers an exciting and hopeful perspective on education; urging teachers to work together to ‘flip the system’ and challenging policy makers to help… or get out of the way.
Chapters have been contributed by Tom Bennett, Peter Ford, Jonathan Firth, David Weston, David Williams, Zeba Clarke, Julie Smith, Dr Robert Loe, Jeremy Pattle, Debra Kidd, Steven Watson, Ross Morrison McGill, George Gilchrist, Howard Stevenson, Professor Dame Alison Peacock, d’Reen Struthers, Phil Wood, Rae Snape, Simon Gibbs, Ross Hall, Jackie Ward, Simon Knight, David Frost, Sheila Ball, Sarah Lightfoot, Andy Hargreaves, Darren Macey, Gary Farrell, Julian Critchley, Tony Gallagher, Gareth Alcott, Sam Twiselton, Jelmer Evers, Alma Harris, Michelle Jones, Natalie Scott, Deborah M. Netolicky, Jon Andrews, Cameron Paterson, Per Kornhall, Joe Hallgarten, Tom Beresford and Sara Hjelm.
Published: 27th November 2017
ISBN: 9781138214804
Number Of Pages: 262
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| 9781138214804 |
 | Global Perspectives on Developing PLCs
Global Perspectives on Developing Professional Learning Communities
by Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang, Ting Wang
This book discusses distinctive features of the professional learning community concept, practices and processes across six different education systems in the Asia-Pacific region, namely Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, and the United States. It provides a platform for an exchange of different perspectives and offers alternative possibilities of theorizing professional learning communities across different socio-cultural contexts. Contributors provide valuable insights for policy makers, education researchers and educators in the Asia-Pacific region and elsewhere to deal with critical questions about the improvement of teaching and learning and school improvement in a globalizing world.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Education.
CONTENTS
Introduction: Professional learning communities: research and practices across six educational systems in the Asia-Pacific region
Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang and Ting Wang
1. School leadership and professional learning community: case study of two senior high schools in Northeast China
Ting Wang
2. Investigating the development of professional learning communities: compare schools in Shanghai and Southwest China
Jia Zhang and Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang
3. Educational reforms and the practices of professional learning community in Hong Kong primary schools
Nicholas Sun-Keung Pang, Ting Wang and Zoe Lai-Mei Leung
4. Factors that develop effective professional learning communities in Taiwan
Peiying Chen, Che-Di Lee, Hongda Lin and Chun-Xi Zhang
5. The emerging landscape of school-based professional learning communities in South Korean schools
Moosung Lee and Jihyun Kim
6. Facilitation for professional learning community conversations in Singapore
Hairon Salleh
7. Professional learning community process in the United States: conceptualization of the process and district support for schools
Dianne F. Olivier and Jane B. Huffman
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| 9780815383307 |