Educational Research Books

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291. Reading Empirical Research Studies

     The Rhetoric of Research

     By Richard E. Young

     Edited by John R. Hayes, Richard E. Young, Michele L. Matchett, Maggie McCaffrey, Cynthia Cochran

     For the most part, those who teach writing and administer writing programs do not conduct research on writing. Perhaps more significantly, they do not often read the research done by others because effective reading of articles on empirical research requires special knowledge and abilities. By and...

     Published May 31st 1992 by Routledge
292. Reading Empirical Research Studies

     The Rhetoric of Research

     Edited by John R. Hayes, Richard E. Young, Michele L. Matchett, Maggie McCaffrey, Cynthia Cochran

     For the most part, those who teach writing and administer writing programs do not conduct research on writing. Perhaps more significantly, they do not often read the research done by others because effective reading of articles on empirical research requires special knowledge and abilities. By and...

     Published April 30th 1992 by Routledge
293. Doing Educational Research

     Edited by Geoffrey Walford

     Thirteen major educationalists offer semi-autobiographical accounts of their own influential research work, focusing on the practical and personal realities of the research process. Authors such as Barbara Tizard and Martin Hughes, Stephen J. Ball, David Reynolds and Peter Mortimore discuss their...

     Published June 5th 1991 by Routledge
294. Interpretive Ethnography of Education at Home and Abroad

     Edited by Louise Spindler, Louise Spindler

     This ambitious and unique volume sets a standard of excellence for research in educational ethnography. The interpretive studies brought together in this volume are outstanding discipline-based analyses of education both in the United States and in complex societies abroad....

     Published April 30th 1987 by Psychology Press
295. Assessing Students

     How Shall We Know Them?

     By Derek Rowntree

     Assessment methods can largely determine what and how students learn, so it is vital that our assessment methods are appropriate to our true educational purposes. This book examines the issues underlying assessment procedures, such as truth, fairness, trust, humanity and social justice and goes on...

     Published March 31st 1987 by Routledge
296. Inside Schools

     Ethnography in Schools

     By Peter Woods

     Ethnography has much to offer teachers, especially at a time of growing interest in the `teacher-reseacher' and in `action' and `collaborative' research....

     Published July 9th 1986 by Routledge