Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators

Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators
ISBN-10
1483389073
ISBN-13
9781483389073
Series
Action Research
Category
Education
Pages
360
Language
English
Published
2016-06-29
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Author
Craig A. Mertler

Description

Craig Mertler’s Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators introduces practicing educators to the process of conducting classroom-based action research. Practical and comprehensive, the book focuses on research methods and procedures that educators can use in their everyday practice. This Fifth Edition adds enhanced coverage of rigor and ethics in action research, means of establishing quality of both quantitative and qualitative data, as well as strengthened pedagogical features. New material includes discussions of social justice advocacy as an application of action research and the inclusion of abstracts in research reports.

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