Research Methods and Statistics Arena

Teachers Doing Research

The Power of Action Through Inquiry

• Edited by Gail E. Burnaford, Joseph Fischer, David Hobson

This popular text describes the processes of doing teacher action research. But it is much more than a dry presentation of "methods." Filled with examples...

Published November 1st 2000 by Routledge.

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Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education 1950-2000

A Spindler Anthology

• Edited by George Spindler

George and Louise Spindler are widely regarded as significant founders of the field of educational anthropology. This book brings together their best, most seminal work...

Published June 1st 2000 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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The Science of Self-report

Implications for Research and Practice

• Edited by Arthur A. Stone, Christine A. Bachrach, Jared B. Jobe, Howard S. Kurtzman, Virginia S. Cain

Rigorous methodological techniques have been developed in the last decade to improve the reliability and accuracy of self reports from research volunteers and patients about...

Published August 1st 1999 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Inside Stories

Qualitative Research Reflections

• Edited by Kathleen B. deMarrais

Although articles reporting research studies are helpful in acquainting students with methodological approaches, they often make the process look so straightforward, clean, and effortless. It...

Published June 1st 1998 by Routledge.

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Points of Viewing Children's Thinking

• By Ricki Goldman-Segall, Ricki Goldman

This book is about learning and ethnography in the context of technologies. Simultaneously, it portrays young people's "thinking attitudes" in computer-based learning environments, and it...

Published November 1st 1997 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Composing a Teacher Study Group

Learning About Inquiry in Primary Classrooms

• By Richard J. Meyer, With Linda Brown, Elizabeth DeNino, Kimberly Larson, Mona McKenzie

There has been a flurry of writing about teachers as inquirers and researchers as well as books about children as inquirers. This volume brings these...

Published October 1st 1997 by Routledge.

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Doing Qualitative Analysis In Psychology

• Edited by Nick Hayes

In recent years, qualitative analysis has become accpeted as part of modern psychology. Concern about the limitations of conventional laboratory- based research combine with a...

Published July 2nd 1997 by Psychology Press.

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Community-Based Ethnography

Breaking Traditional Boundaries of Research, Teaching, and Learning

• By Ernest T. Stringer, Mary Frances Agnello, Sheila Conant Baldwin, Lois McFayden Christensen, Deana Lee Philb Henry

Co-written by a professor and 10 students, this book explores their attempts to come to grips with fundamental issues related to writing narrative accounts purporting...

Published July 1st 1997 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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Interpretive Ethnography of Education at Home and Abroad

• Edited by George 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...

Published May 1st 1987 by Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates).

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