What Works?

by Chiseri-Strater, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780325007137
• ISBN10: 0325007136
• Edition: Teacher
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-27
• Publisher: Heinemann Drama

Summary

What Works?is a comprehensive look at what goes into teacher research and what you'll get out of it. Whether you're answering some persistent question about your classroom, thinking about your curriculum, taking a course, researching for a grant application or National Board Certification®, Chiseri-Strater and Sunstein have laid out action research as an easy-to-understand process. They've organized What Works? as a teacher-friendly instruction manual, introducing each of the tasks of teacher research one by onefrom shaping a question, to designing a study, to conducting it, to disseminating your results. Each step of the way you'll read supportive advice, see illustrations from projects around the U.S., find exercises that hone the skills necessary to do research, encounter numerous creative suggestions for expanding the range and scope of traditional action research, and learn what a vital and important influence it can be on your instruction.

Author Biography

Bonnie Sunstein is Professor of English and Education at the University of Iowa.

Table of Contents

Introduction:Taking the Time to Ask What Works

Prepwork: An Overview of the Research Process

Scratchwork: Shaping a Question

Bridgework: Researching the Idea

Headwork: Assuming Self and Other

Legwork: Pursuing Multiple Sources of Data

Eyework: Methods and Methodologies

Homework: Preparing the Working Proposal

Footwork: Covering Your Tracks

Deskwork: Interpretation and Analysis

Handwork: The Craft of Dissemination

Frequently Asked Questions About Writing Research

Partial List of Books on Teacher Inquiry

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