Full Description
This practical guide provides practicing and preservice school administrators with the skills needed to use educational research, rather than instructing them on how to conduct research. This distinction is made through the use of case studies to illustrate the theory presented.
Contents
Preface.
Introduction.
1. What is Research in Educational Administration?
2. Research & Practice: The Case of EEO.
3. Finding and Using Research to Address Educational Problems.
4. Evaluating Research.
5. Class Size in Irontown: Large Scale Experiments in Education.
6. Cooperative Learning, Statistical Significance, and Effect Size.
7. Teacher Empowerment and Qualitative Research.
8. Quasi-Experimental Research Designs, External Validity, and the Matter of School Discipline.
9. Correlational Designs, Parent Involvement,, and the Question and Causality.
10. School Climate and the Matter of Measurement.
In Conclusion.
Credits.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
