School-based research : a guide for education students / edited by Elaine Wilson.

Previous edition: 2009.

Introduction. Why should teachers do school-based research? -- SECTION 1. Using existing research to understand and plan school-based research. Becoming a reflexive teacher / Elaine Wilson -- Refining the focus for research and formulating a research question / Elaine Wilson -- Reviewing the literature and writing a literature review / Elaine Wilson -- Research with younger children: issues and approaches / Paul Warwick, Roland Chaplain -- SECTION 2. Carrying out and reporting on classroom-based research. Research design / Elaine Wilson -- Ethics in educational research / Kris Stutchbury -- Data collection / Elaine Wilson, Alison Fox -- Handling data / Elaine Wilson, Alison Fox -- Reliability and validity in qualitative research by teacher researchers / Michael Evans -- Analysing qualitative data / Michael Evans -- Taking a quantitative approach / Mark Winterbottom -- Analysing quantitative data / Ros McLellan -- Writing about your research / Elaine Wilson -- SECTION 3. Methodologies. What is educational action research? / Elaine Wilson -- How to do action research / Elaine Wilson -- The case study / Helen Demetriou -- Building theory from data: grounded theory / Keith S. Taber -- SECTION 4. Paradigms. Beyond positivism: `scientific' research into education / Keith S. Taber -- Interpretivism: meeting our selves in research / Christine Counsell -- Conclusion -- Glossary.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-348) and index.