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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 begining a research or a professional 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.
Analysing Situations — Identifying Issues
Analysing Situations — Identifying Issues
This chapter will explain the importance of clarifying the context of the external and internal environments faced by the researcher in order to identify the key issues that are worthy of research. Specifically, by the completion of this chapter, you should:
- be able to identify and clarify an explicit focus for research;
- have considered the local and national factors which impact upon classroom, departmental or organisational practice;
- be able to compose the key questions that will give you answers which will help you (and/or your school) progress forwards.
Having addressed some of the issues surrounding why research activity is so important for the individual's professional development and the health of educational organisations, here we focus on making a ...
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