Using Educational Research
A School Administrator's Guide
Published on 5. March 2002
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-8013-1635-7 (ISBN)
Description
This practical guide provides practicing and preservice school administrators with the skills needed to use educational research, rather than instructing them on how to conduct research. This distinction is made through the use of case studies to illustrate the theory presented.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
585 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8013-1635-7 (9780801316357)
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Content
Preface.
Introduction.
1. What is Research in Educational Administration?
2. Research & Practice: The Case of EEO.
3. Finding and Using Research to Address Educational Problems.
4. Evaluating Research.
5. Class Size in Irontown: Large Scale Experiments in Education.
6. Cooperative Learning, Statistical Significance, and Effect Size.
7. Teacher Empowerment and Qualitative Research.
8. Quasi-Experimental Research Designs, External Validity, and the Matter of School Discipline.
9. Correlational Designs, Parent Involvement,, and the Question and Causality.
10. School Climate and the Matter of Measurement.
In Conclusion.
Credits.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
Introduction.
1. What is Research in Educational Administration?
2. Research & Practice: The Case of EEO.
3. Finding and Using Research to Address Educational Problems.
4. Evaluating Research.
5. Class Size in Irontown: Large Scale Experiments in Education.
6. Cooperative Learning, Statistical Significance, and Effect Size.
7. Teacher Empowerment and Qualitative Research.
8. Quasi-Experimental Research Designs, External Validity, and the Matter of School Discipline.
9. Correlational Designs, Parent Involvement,, and the Question and Causality.
10. School Climate and the Matter of Measurement.
In Conclusion.
Credits.
Name Index.
Subject Index.