From Problem to Possibility: Action and Research for Leading Up to Continuous Improvement, Jacobs Mary Ann, Kushner Remigia

Автор: Jacobs Mary Ann, Kushner Remigia
Название: From Problem to Possibility: Action and Research for Leading Up to Continuous Improvement
ISBN: 1475859759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781475859751
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: The purpose of this book is to persuade leaders that action research is leadership.

Автор: Inoue Asao B., Poe Mya
Название: Beyond Actions: Psychology of Action Research for Mindful Educational Improvement
ISBN: 1433118165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433118166
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: Balancing practical advice and theoretical discussions, this book provides a variety of models, frameworks, and research methods to consider writing assessment approaches that are sensitive to the linguistic and cultural identities that diverse students bring to writing classrooms.

Автор: Glanz Jeffrey
Название: Action Research: An Educational Leader`s Guide to School Improvement
ISBN: 1442223693 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442223691
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Описание: This interactive edition of the widely popular resource features separate chapters introducing quantitative and qualitative research approaches and data analyses. A new chapter outlines how to initiate an action research project and another gives you just what you need to complete a project.

Автор: Ann Jaquith
Название: How to Create the Conditions for Learning: Continuous Improvement in Classrooms, Schools, and Districts
ISBN: 1682530833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682530832
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Focuses on one of the most important and dynamic areas of modern federal civil practice - aggregate-party litigation, particularly class actions and multidistrict litigation. The casebook covers the latest groundbreaking Supreme Court cases involving employment discrimination, arbitration, expert testimony, ""pick offs"" of class representatives, aggregate proof of damages, and securities fraud.

Автор: Allred Susan G., Foster Kelly A.
Название: Without Trumpets: Continuous Educational Improvement, Journey to Sustainability
ISBN: 1475843070 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781475843071
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Описание: Almost everyone considers himself or herself an authority on education because he or she has been to school. Depending on whether the school experience was a good one or not so good, people develop belief systems about what school should be. The authors of this book say that what schools should be is continuously improving.

Автор: Means, Barbara (sri International) Krumm, Andrew (sri International) Bienkowski, Marie (sri International)
Название: Learning analytics for educational improvement
ISBN: 1138121835 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138121836
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Описание: Learning Analytics Goes to School presents a framework for understanding how to conduct new forms of education research and enact new approaches to improving education practice made possible by big data.

Автор: Diana Mindrila
Название: Exploratory Factor Analysis: Applications in School Improvement Research
ISBN: 1536124869 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536124866
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: In education, researchers often work with complex data sets that include a multitude of variables. One question that often arises in such contexts is whether the structure of associations that underlies the data is accounted for by a latent construct. Exploratory factor analysis is a multivariate correlational procedure that helps researchers overcome such challenges. It helps reduce large data sets into main components or identify distinct constructs that account for the pattern of correlations among observed variables. These unobservable constructs are referred to as common factors, latent variables, or internal attributes, and they exert linear influences on more than one observed variable. Although exploratory factor analysis is widely used, many applied educational researchers and practitioners are not yet familiar with this procedure and are intimidated by the technical terminology. This book provides a conceptual description of this method and includes a collection of applied research studies that illustrates the application of exploratory factor analysis in school improvement research. The first chapter provides a theoretical overview of exploratory factor analysis. It explains the purposes for which this procedure can be used, the related terminology, the distinction between key concepts, the steps that must be taken, and the criteria for making the decisions. This information can serve as a starting point for researchers who need a brief, conceptual introduction to this topic. The following chapters present a series of research studies in which exploratory factor analysis was employed either by itself or in conjunction with other statistical procedures. The studies presented in this book address a variety of research problems in the field of school improvement. They specify how the factor analytic procedure was applied, and explain the theoretical contributions and the practical applications of the factor analytic results. In most studies, results from factor analysis were used for subsequent statistical procedures, thus helping researchers address more complex research questions and enriching the results.

Автор: Angela Urick, David E. DeMatthews, Timothy G. Ford
Название: Maximizing the Policy Relevance of Research for School Improvement
ISBN: 1648022480 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781648022487
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Angela Urick, David E. DeMatthews, Timothy G. Ford
Название: Maximizing the Policy Relevance of Research for School Improvement
ISBN: 1648022472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781648022470
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Williams Richard D.
Название: Handbook of Research on Challenging Deficit Thinking for Exceptional Education Improvement
ISBN: 1799888606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781799888604
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Описание: Unites current theory and practices to communicate the next steps to end the current harmful practices and experiences of exceptional students through critical analysis of current practices, mindsets, and policies.

Автор: Alma Fleet, Katey De Gioia, Catherine Patterson
Название: Engaging with Educational Change: Voices of Practitioner Inquiry
ISBN: 147425084X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474250849
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Описание: Including narratives of practice across diverse Australian settings, Engaging with Educational Change fills a gap in the current educational change literature. Building on the experience of the authors and their colleagues, this book illustrates the power of practitioner inquiry to facilitate positive, practice-improving change and suggests how others might use this methodology to extend current thinking and evaluation. The book includes the voices of practitioners and academics working with a diverse range of age groups and settings across public and private educational contexts, including primary schools, preschools and childcare centres. This multi-perspective real research helps inform and inspire people from a range of backgrounds and expertise who want to facilitate practitioner inquiry initiatives themselves. The book begins by introducing practitioner inquiry, exploring the principles of inquiry-based practice and issues of data alongside the landscapes of educational change. Chapters in part two then offer real-life case studies highlighting experiences of using practitioner inquiry or supporting those working with these methods to improve educational practice and ultimately the outcomes for children. The chapters include case studies of pedagogical leadership and the exploration of issues related to sustaining educational change. The final section concludes the book by critically reflecting upon practitioner inquiry and providing guidance for those interested in this change methodology. Investigating issues that arise during implementation of practitioner inquiry initiatives, Engaging with Educational Change provides both critique and assistance for students and practitioners applying the process in their own settings.

Автор: Douglas J. Loveless, Cheryl L. Beverly, Aaron Bodle, Katie S. Dredger, Diane Foucar-Szocki, Teresa Harris, Shin Ji Kang, Jane B. Thall, Phillip Wishon
Название: The Vulnerability of Teaching and Learning in a Selfie Society
ISBN: 9463008101 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789463008105
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: This book explores the generative power of vulnerabilities facing individuals who inhabit educational spaces. We argue that vulnerability can be an asset in developing understandings of others, and in interrogating the self. Explorations of vulnerability offer a path to building empathy and creating engaged generosity within a community of dissensus. This kind of self-examination is essential in a selfie society in which democratic participation often devolves into neoliberal silos of discourse and marginalization of others who look, think, and believe differently. By vulnerability we mean the experiences that have the potential to compromise our livelihood, beliefs, values, emotional and mental states, sense of self-worth, and positioning within the Habermasian system/lifeworld as teachers and learners. We can refer to this as microvulnerability—that is, those things humans encounter in daily life that make us aware of the illusion of control. The selfie becomes an analogy for the posturing of a particular self that reinforces how one hopes to be understood by others. What are the vulnerabilities teachers and learners face? And how can we joker, as Norris calls it, the various vulnerabilities that we inherently bring into teaching and learning spaces? In light of the divisive discourses around the politics of Ferguson, Charlie Hebdo, ISIS, Ebola, Surveillance, and Immigration; vulnerability offers an entry way into exhuming the humanity necessary for a participatory democracy that is often hijacked by a selfie mentality.