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This volume aims to help prospective educational researchers plan their research in schools more carefully. It focuses on such issues as: access and credibility in the school; traditional issues of designing research; questions that emerge as the design is imposed on the school culture and setting particularly with regard to school staff and student assessment; the length of interventions and whether or not to schedule follow-up studies; and how to interpret and communicate findings to schools and policy makers. Using personal experiences from their field research to illustrate key concepts, the authors have also included a research project to clarify the practical issues of school research.
Getting Started: Accessing School Populations
Getting Started: Accessing School Populations
In this chapter, we assume that readers have chosen a problem and are attempting to find a setting in which to conduct their research. As noted previously, there are different reasons to work in educational settings and different goals and objectives that might be sought. To return to the distinction drawn by Cronbach ...
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