Educational Research Books
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Early Childhood Teacher Research
By Kathryn Castle
This exciting new resource, Early Childhood Teacher Research, is a comprehensive guide for early childhood students and professionals in understanding and doing early childhood teacher research. This accessible and interactive book touches upon the important issues every early childhood...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-87759-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Emerging Approaches to Educational Research: Tracing the Socio-Material
By Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards, Peter Sawchuk
The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-57092-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Introductory Statistics: A Guided Tour
Edited by William B. Ware, John M. Ferron, Barbara M. Miller
This comprehensive and uniquely organized text is aimed at undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses in education and psychology. An organization scheme built around common issues and problems rather than statistical techniques allows students to understand the conceptual nature of...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-99600-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Beginning Interpretive Inquiry: A Step-by-Step Approach to Research and Evaluation
By Richard Morehouse
This book is entitled Beginning Interpretive Inquiry and not beginning interpretive research or interpretive evaluation. For as the author shows inquiry is a far more inclusive concept that allows for a detailed understanding of both research and evaluation. The author draws on his personal...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-60189-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Design Research on Learning and Thinking in Educational Settings: Enhancing Intellectual Growth and Functioning
Edited by David Dai
The central question this book address is how a design research-based science of learning (with its practical models and related design research) can provide insights and integrated models of how human beings actually function and grow in the social dynamics of educational settings with all their...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-88051-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of e-learning: A Practical Guide
By Rob Phillips, Carmel McNaught, Gregor Kennedy
How can the average educator who teaches online, without experience in evaluating emerging technologies, build on what is successful and modify what is not? Written for educators who feel ill-prepared when required to evaluate e-learning initiatives, Evaluating the Effectiveness of...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-88194-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Knowledge Making in the Classroom: Tracking Learning in Students' Multimodal Texts
By Shirley Palframan
This book is the first to foreground issues of learning and assessment in relation to multimodality – the variety of ways students experience communication outside of school, for example, interactive websites and chat rooms. It explores the use of social semiotic theories in interpreting evidence...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-41111-0 | Hardback (Routledge)