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Author : Scott C. Bauer,S. David Brazer
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412974059
-This text presents a step-by-step approach to problem diagnosis and school improvement. --
Author : Jeffrey Glanz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442223707
Action Research: An Educational Leader’s Guide to School Improvement, Third Edition, is a clear and practical guide to conducting action research in schools. Although it offers neither a cookbook nor a quick-fix approach, this book does outline the process of designing and reporting an action research project. Useful as a classroom text as well as a self-teaching tool, Action Research: An Educational Leader’s Guide to School Improvement is a comprehensive training manual. It can be used by practitioners in the field, by graduate students enrolled in leadership and/or master’s thesis courses, or by anyone interested in learning how to conduct action research projects, including classroom teachers ,who are leaders too in their own right. The strategies and techniques of action research described are no different for teachers than they are for administrators. The underlying assumption of this work is that research is not a domain only for academics, it is also a powerful approach that can be used by practitioners to contribute to school renewal and instructional improvement. Rather than being merely a philosophical treatise or theoretical analysis, Action Research provides concrete strategies and techniques for conducting action research in schools.
Author : Richard Sagor
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416615903
Action research, explored in this book, is a seven-step process for improving teaching and learning in classrooms at all levels. Through practical examples, research tools, and easy-to-follow "implementation strategies," Richard Sagor guides readers through the process from start to finish. Learn how to uncover and use the data that already exist in your classrooms and schools to answer significant questions about your individual or collective concerns and interests. Sagor covers each step in the action research process in detail: selecting a focus, clarifying theories, identifying research questions, collecting data, analyzing data, reporting results, and taking informed action. Drawing from the experience of individual teachers, faculties, and school districts, Sagor describes how action research can enhance teachers' professional standing and efficacy while helping them succeed in settings characterized by increasingly diverse student populations and an emphasis on standards-based reform. The book also demonstrates how administrators and policymakers can use action research to bolster efforts related to accreditation, teacher supervision, and job-embedded staff development. Part how-to guide, part inspirational treatise, Guiding School Improvement with Action Research provides advice, information, and encouragement to anyone interested in reinventing schools as learning communities and restructuring teaching as the true profession it was meant to be.
Author : Angela M. Urick,David E. DeMatthews,Timothy G. Ford
Publisher : IAP
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648022494
Education policy and policy making is shaped through the activities of a complex network of educators, educational leaders, researchers, community members, as well as government and non-government officials and organizations. Educational researchers are a critical player in this complex network and their investigations of various educational phenomena can answer questions relevant to the design and implementation of education policy for school improvement. Educational research, however, often has limited influence in larger policy conversations and decisions (Orland, 2009), and this is due to many factors. Educational researchers can provide an evidence-based starting place for discussions about school improvement with the complex network of stakeholders engaged in policy development and implementation, but they must be more intentionally and systematically thoughtful about the connections of their work to policy and policy making. Furthermore, researchers can increase the relevance of their work for policy through the careful design and framing of research in collaboration with end-users, and an awareness of its implications. In so doing, researchers can spur the interest and dissemination of their findings to wider audiences. This book offers resources for education researchers, faculty, and advanced graduate students interested in maximizing the relevance of their research on policy for school improvement. In achieving this purpose, the book is organized into three sections: 1) A primer for education policy making in the United States; 2) Designing research to maximize education policy relevance; and 3) Engaging users of research to communicate its relevance to policymakers. This book is primarily for education researchers, faculty, and advanced graduate students seeking to improve the visibility and impact of their research on school improvement, particularly in the realm of educational policy and policy making. While this book is a volume in the book series for the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group, Leadership for School Improvement, the importance and usefulness of the topics covered span education research more broadly. Further, the content of this book serves as a comprehensive guide for how education researchers, in general, can better situate their work to influence policy. The book is intended to be utilized by university scholars, graduate students in research or policy courses, post-doctoral fellows, as well as research associates or directors in various organizations relevant to education such as research consulting groups, non-profits which serve education causes, teacher unions, state agencies or state-level educator organizations/associations, and think tanks. Emerging or established researchers in any of these organizations who want to increase the relevance, significance and dissemination of their work into education policy will hopefully find this book useful.
Author : Cher Hendricks
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X004860601
This compact, clear and user-friendly text provides everything a pre-service or in-service teacher needs to know to follow the research cycle and conduct an action research project. This text emphasizes reflective processes used in planning and conducting action research studies, data analysis techniques (quantitative and qualitative), and displaying and explaining results. It provides specific information needed to complete each step of the action research cycle with chapter activities that help the student/reader conduct projects focused on school improvement. Each activity includes a research paper component that helps students create a research paper as they complete the activities in each chapter. This text has more emphasis on reflective and reflexive activities than other text and is geared toward adults/professionals who will use these activites to conduct action research for educational change and school improvement.
Author : Louis M. Gomez,Manuelito Biag,David G Imig,Randy Hitz,Steve Tozer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Educational change
ISBN : 9781538173237
"A ground-breaking, practical resource for the burgeoning practice of continuous improvement in educational schools and districts nationwide"--
Author : Decheng Zhao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000610307
The book analyzes school improvement from the perspective of theory and practice in China. By theoretically exploring definitions, characteristics, and models of school improvement, the author develops and explains an effective set of criteria. Ten cases of best practice are shared, exploring different aspects of school improvement such as school development planning, teacher human resource management, and instructional leadership. Integrating theory and practice, the book further discusses the generation and application of best practice case studies. It contributes to the knowledge of new management and practical innovation in the field of school improvement. Policymakers, educators, managers, researchers, and all those interested in improving the quality of basic education will find this book helpful.
Author : Shaun Rawolle,Muriel Wells,Louise Paatsch,Russell Tytler,Coral Campbell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789812879318
This unique book explores school improvement policy – from its translation into national contexts and school networks to its implementation in leader and teacher practices in individual schools and classrooms within this network of schools and its impact on students’ learning. It draws on multiple conceptual and theoretical resources to explore the complexities attached to a school improvement process in a network of schools in Australia. These conceptual and theoretical resources include discourse, practice, representation and network, concepts common to both policy research as well as studies of leadership and classroom practice. They lead to a more detailed understanding of the intersections between educational policy and intervention processes, and the complex reality of school processes and teaching practices. In the book we trace the implementation of school improvement policies through its multiple phases, levels and contexts. Our data-collection and analysis methods draw on a variety of perspectives in the way different players perceive their roles and the nature of the initiative and the ways in which these intersect. The research findings are used to seek productive approaches to school improvement that combine policy integrity with local flexibility. The book contributes to the school improvement literature through its exploration of tensions between global and systemic settings and local practices and histories.
Author : Judy Durrant,Gary Holden
Publisher : Paul Chapman Educational Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412900670
"Packed with helpful advice and ideas, this book will help you to participate in your school's improvement by gathering and using evidence from your own classroom experiences to create innovative strategies for positive change."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Victoria L. Bernhardt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351587853
Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement provides a new definition of school improvement, away from a singular focus on compliance, toward a true commitment to excellence. This book is a call to action. It is about inspiring schools and school districts to commit to continuous school improvement by providing a framework that will result in improving teaching for every teacher and learning for every student through the comprehensive use of data. A culmination of over 30 years of doing the hard work in schools and districts both nationally and internationally, Data Analysis for Continuous School Improvement shares new, evidence-based learnings about how to analyze, report, communicate, and use multiple measures of data. The updated edition provides a wealth of tools, protocols, timelines, examples, and strategies that will help schools and districts become genuine learning organizations.
Author : Richard Sagor
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Action research in education
ISBN : 9780871203755
Provides an explanation of what action research is, presents a rationale for engaging in action research, and describes the process of action research for improving teaching and learning in classrooms at all levels.
Author : Michael Connolly,David H. Eddy-Spicer,Chris James,Sharon D. Kruse
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1197 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781526465573
The SAGE Handbook of School Organization provides a substantial review of the history, current status and future prospects of the field of school organization. Bringing together chapters exploring key issues, important debates and points of tension, the Handbook highlights school and system organisational structure, processes and dynamics coupled with insights into important theoretical foundations from diverse perspectives. This volume is designed to provide a much-needed, critically informed and coherent account of the field, against a backdrop of increasing complexity in which schooling as an institution and schools as organisations operate.
Author : Chad R. Lochmiller,Jessica N. Lester
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506347110
Expand your understanding of educational research with this practice-first introduction. Written specifically for education practitioners, An Introduction to Educational Research: Connecting Methods to Practice approaches research methods from a practice-first perspective that aligns research with professional experiences and identifies the tools and resources readers can use when conducting their own research. Throughout the book, the authors illuminate complex research concepts using problems of practice confronting educators to help readers make meaningful connections with key concepts and research practices. The authors present balanced coverage across research methodologies that is linked to practice, so readers clearly see research as a tool they can use to improve classrooms, schools, districts, and educational organizations.
Author : Gary Ivory,Dana Christman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475811193
An administrator who knows how to use technology effectively can increase productivity and connection. However, anyone who is not able to harness its power will struggle due to its prevalence. It has become a staple of school administration, from evaluations to communication. Gary and Dana’s book Technologies to Lead Schools gets educational leaders started on the path of harnessing the power of technology to effectively impact schools.
Author : Hans W. Klar,Kristin Shawn Huggins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429875977
Developing Rural School Leaders combines a focus on rural education and school leadership development to illustrate how the teaching and learning conditions in rural schools can be enhanced through transformative leadership coaching. By unpacking literature related to rural school leadership development and using case studies to authentically illustrate the complexities involved in rural school leadership development, this book explores how leaders can develop their abilities to increase data-informed instructional decision making, create a culture that supports teaching and learning, and develop other leaders. Ultimately, this important book concludes with an exploration of the opportunities and challenges of developing rural school leaders.