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“peter c weitzel”

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  • The Charter School Experiment

    Expectations, Evidence, and Implications

    Edited by Christopher A. Lubienski, Peter C. Weitzel ...
    When charter schools first arrived on the American educational scene, few observers suspected that within two decades thousands of these schools would be established, serving almost a million and a half children across forty states. The widespread popularity of these schools, and of the charter movement itself, speaks to the unique and chronic desire for substantive change in American education. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Qualitative Research

    Studying How Things Work

    by Robert E. Stake, PhD ...
    This book provides invaluable guidance for thinking through and planning a qualitative study. Rather than offering recipes for specific techniques, master storyteller Robert Stake stimulates readers to discover "how things work" in organizations, programs, communities, and other systems. Topics range from identifying a research question to selecting methods, gathering data, interpreting and ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Quantitative Data Analysis in Education

    A Critical Introduction Using SPSS

    by Paul Connolly ...
    This book provides a refreshing and user-friendly guide to quantitative data analysis in education for students and researchers. It assumes absolutely no prior knowledge of quantitative methods or statistics. Beginning with the very basics, it provides the reader with the knowledge and skills necessary to be able to undertake routine quantitative data analysis to a level expected of published ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • A Focus on Hope

    Fifty Resilient Students Speak

    by Frances K. Trotman, Erik E. Morales ...
    Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • An Introduction to Qualitative Research Synthesis

    Managing the Information Explosion in Social Science Research

    by Claire Howell Major, Maggi Savin-Baden ...
    Providing a comprehensive guide for understanding, interpreting and synthesizing qualitative studies, An Introduction to Qualitative Research Synthesis shows how data can be collated together effectively to summarise existing bodies of knowledge and to create a more complete picture of findings across different studiesThe authors describe qualitative research synthesis and argue for its use, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity

    Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students

    by Sunya T. Collier, Dean Cristol, Sandra Dean, Donna H. Foss, Rebecca K. Fox, Eric Greenwald, Leah Herner-Patnode, Barbara Larrivee Hea-Jin Lee, Jane McCarthy, Christie McIntyre, Rejoyce Soukup Milam, Melissa Mosley, Mistilina Sato, Jason Jude Smith, Anne Rath, Audra Roach, Katie Russell, Kelly Vaughn, Angela Webster-Smith, Ruth Chung Wei, Rachel Wlodarksy, Diane Yendol-Hoppey, Martha Young, Fred A.J. Korthagen, James L. Hoffman, Nancy P. Gallavan, Linda Quinn, Jian Wang, Lynn Paine, C Stephen White, Nancy Fichtman Dana, D.John McIntyre, Walter S. Polka ...
    Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter and avoids talking about teacher reflection generically, which implies that all kinds of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education

    What the Research Says

    by Jonathan Plucker, Ph.D., Carolyn Callahan ...
    Critical Issues and Practices in Gifted Education: What the Research Says is the definitive reference book for those searching for a summary and evaluation of the literature on giftedness and gifted education. The book presents almost 50 summaries of important topics in the field, providing relevant research and a guide to how the research applies to gifted education.Sample topics addressed ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Evaluative Research Methods

    Managing the Complexities of Judgement in the Field

    by Saville Kushner ...
    Series series Evaluation and Society
    How do research students and their supervisors respond in a world of ‘fake news’, the destabilisation of public institutions and the rise of populism? The very foundations of our liberal democracies seem to be under threat, and this implicates social inquiry. Postgraduate research remains one of the few information spaces which are still free of politicisation and committed to validation.This book ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Understanding Education Indicators

    A Practical Primer for Research and Policy

    by Mike Planty, Deven Carlson ...
    In the push to bring data to bear on all of the important education issues of the day, one essential fact is often overlooked: Not all indicators are created equal. This bookprovides a comprehensive approach for understanding how statistical measures of achievement are developed, evaluated, and interpreted. Given the extent to which accountability measures determine outcomes for schools and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The Miseducation of English Learners

    A Tale of Three States and Lessons to Be Learned

    Edited by Grace P. McField ...
    Sometimes you need to hear the story from the beginning. The Miseducation of English Learners examines the initial policy impact of Structured English Immersion (SEI), an English-only program mandated for English Learners (ELs) in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts in the United States. The book features analyses of: the legal context and parameters of SEI; research history on SEI; SEI ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Assessing quality in applied and practice-based research in education.

    Continuing the debate

    Edited by John Furlong, Alis Oancea ...
    One of the most persistent features of the research environment in the UK over the last decades has been the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE); now more and more countries are following suit by developing their own systems for research quality assessment. However, in the field of education, one of the difficulties with this policy has been that a ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Mathematics Teachers Engaging with Representations of Practice

    A Dynamically Evolving Field

    Edited by Orly Buchbinder, Sebastian Kuntze ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents innovative approaches and state-of-the-art empirical studies on mathematics teacher learning. It highlights the advantages and challenges of such tools as classroom videos, concept cartoons, simulations, and scenarios. The book details how representations of practice encourage and afford professional development, and describes how these tools help to investigate aspects of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD