Keith Morrison Bücher

This updated 7th edition of a long-standing bestseller in educational research methods covers a comprehensive range of techniques used throughout the research process. It provides extensive practical advice grounded in solid theoretical foundations, research evidence, and current references. New chapters address topics such as causation, critical educational research, evaluation, and the politics of research, along with insights into cross-cultural, mixed methods, and participatory research. Key areas include project planning, sampling, research questions, literature reviews, and ethical considerations. The edition also explores meta-analysis, research syntheses, systematic reviews, and the use of virtual worlds and internet research. It emphasizes the analysis of visual media in educational contexts and offers guidance on organizing qualitative data, coding, and grounded theory. Additionally, it covers statistical tests, descriptive and inferential statistics, and factor analysis. This resource is essential for both professional researchers and education students at all levels, aiding in the planning, conducting, analyzing, and utilizing of research. Accompanying resources include a dedicated website with PowerPoint slides summarizing each chapter and various supplementary documents to enhance understanding and application.

A Guide to Teaching Practice is the major standard text for all students on initial teacher training courses in the UK.Authoritative yet accessible, it covers the important basic skills and issues that students need to consider during their practice, such as planning, classroom organization, behaviour management and assessment. The book's focus on the quality of teaching and learning and consideration of the latest regulations and guidelines ensures that it fits comfortably within TTA and OfSTED frameworks.In addition, comprehensively revised and fully updated, this fifth edition features brand new chapters on the foundation stage, legal issues, learning and teaching and using ICT in the classroom, as well as new material on numeracy, literacy, children's rights, progress files and gifted and talented children.This book is the most respected and widely used textbook for initial teacher training courses and will be an essential resource for any student teacher.

Focusing on the implementation of cross-curricular themes in education, this book offers practical guidance for primary and secondary school teachers. It outlines aims for cross-curricular work, strategies for curriculum development and management, and effective teaching and learning styles. Additionally, it addresses assessment, evaluation, and record-keeping, making it a comprehensive resource for educators seeking to enhance their teaching practices in line with the National Curriculum.

Providing an overview of key issues in the theory and practice of replication studies in education, this text is designed to identify and discuss the benefits and challenges facing replication studies in education. It's a clear and practical guide on how to approach, plan, design, conduct, analyze, report and evaluate a replication study.

Drawing on up-to-date scholarship from across the world, Taming Randomized Controlled Trials in Education critically addresses the increased use of RCTs in education, exploring their benefits, limits and cautions, and ultimately questioning the prominence given to them.