Jual Buku: Educational Research

 

Title: Educational Research (Jerry Wellington)

Paperback: 336 page

Publisher: Bloombury; 2nd Revised edition edition (2015) 

Language: English

 

What is educational research? What are its current approaches, methods and methodologies? How should existing literature be reviewed and evaluated critically? What are the key philosophical debates in and on educational research? How should research in education be conducted and how should it be presented? And what is the value of such research? With this extensively revised edition of a much-admired and engaging guide, Jerry Wellington provides clear and constructive answers to these questions, complete with detailed advice on methods such as interviewing, surveys, documentary research and the use of focus groups. Thoroughly overhauled and updated, this edition includes new case studies, helpful theory summary boxes, and a range of activities or points to ponder to foster engagement with current issues. Retaining the clarity and concision of the previous edition, and its approachable and practical style, Jerry Wellington provides an invaluable text for all those engaged in educational research.

Jual Buku: Understanding Pupil Behaviour: Classroom Management Techniques for Teachers 1st Edition

Title: Understanding Pupil Behaviour: Classroom Management Techniques for Teachers 1st Edition
Hardcover: 184 pages
Publisher: David Fulton Publishers; 1 edition (January 29, 2009)
Language: English


This book describes a system of successful classroom behaviour management techniques developed by the author over more than twenty-five years. It outlines the difficulties confronting teachers trying to manage pupils’ misbehaviour in schools and describes four types of pupil who can be helped to behave responsibly.
In Understanding Pupil Behaviour Ramon Lewis explains how pupils’ behaviour can be categorised and how techniques can be introduced to deal with each category, however challenging the behaviour might be. The book goes on to provide a framework for long-term commitment by teachers to produce effective interactions with students.
Teachers, PGCE students and educational advisors looking for a handy guide to tried-and-tested behaviour management strategies, as well as those wanting a resource for delivering INSET training on the subject, will find all they need in this accessible book.

Jual Buku: The Teacher Quality Index: A Protocol for Teacher Selection

Title: The Teacher Quality Index: A Protocol for Teacher Selection
Page: 138 pages
Publisher: Assn for Supervision & Curriculum (February 22, 2006)
Language: English


We know that teachers make a profound difference in the lives of students and are the single most important school-related influence on student achievement. When it comes to teacher selection, district and building-level administrators are challenged to predict what kind of teacher a candidate will be, based on information collected through an application and one or two interviews.
In this book, James H. Stronge and Jennifer L. Hindman explain how to take the guesswork out of hiring decisions. Their Teacher Quality Index (TQI) is a structured, research-based interview protocol built on the quality indicators explored in Stronge’s best-selling Qualities of Effective Teachers. Here, educators with hiring responsibilities will find interview questions that reveal what they most need to know about teacher candidates and question-specific, descriptive rubrics that support consistent evaluation of candidates’ responses. The Teacher Quality Index is the easiest, most reliable way to see that new hires possess both the personal qualities essential to effective teachers and the requisite proficiencies in classroom management, instructional planning and delivery, and the monitoring of student progress and potential.
An accompanying CD-ROM provides forms and scoring rubrics for both screening interviews and building-based interviews. The question sets are presented in multiple configurations: variations for experienced and novice teachers as well as "interviewer’s choice" formats, which allow for additional customization. Protocol guidelines, succinct discussions of underlying research, and response-rating exercises ensure readers will come away with the rationale, know-how, and tools to implement this teacher-selection process and, ultimately, increase the overall effectiveness of their teaching staff.

Jual Buku: Working Families and Growing Kids:: Caring for Children and Adolescents 1st Edition

Title: Working Families and Growing Kids:: Caring for Children and Adolescents 1st Edition
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: National Academies Press; 1 edition (June 9, 2003)
Language: English
 

 An informative mix of data and discussion, this book presents conclusions and recommendations for policies that can respond to the new conditions shaping America's working families. Among the family and work trends reviewed: * Growing population of mothers with young children in the workforce. * Increasing reliance of nonparental child care. * Growing challenges of families on welfare. * Increased understanding of child and adolescent development. Included in this comprehensive review of the research and data on family leave, child care, and income support issues are: the effects of early child care and school age child care on child development, the impacts of family work policies on child and adolescent well-being and family functioning, the impacts of family work policies on child and adolescent well-being and family functioning the changes to federal and state welfare policy, the emergence of a 24/7 economy, the utilization of paid family leave, and an examination of the ways parental employment affects children as they make their way through childhood and adolescence. The book also evaluates the support systems available to working families, including family and medical leave, child care options, and tax policies. The committee's conclusions and recommendations will be of interest to anyone concerned with issues affecting the working American family, especially policy makers, program administrators, social scientists, journalist, private and public sector leaders, and family advocates.

Jual Buku: English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course

Title: English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course
Paperback: 245 pages
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company (August 15, 2000)
Language: English

English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course is designed as a 10-week course for students of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, or other language related fields. In 10 weeks the student will be proficient in English analysis at sentence, clause and phrase level and have a solid understanding of the traditional terms and concepts of English syntax. This introduction prepares for practical courses in grammar and writing skills and for theoretical courses in syntactic argumentation. The package consists of a Course Book with 8 Chapters and a CD-Rom with the interactive Practice Program.
The Course Book provides
• sentence structures in clear graphics;
• logically structured chapters with Introductions and Summaries;
• exercises with quotations and excerpts from English, American and Australian literature and pop songs.

The Practice Program
• contains over 800 interactive exercises;
• over 700 authentic quotations and excerpts from literature and popular music to analyze;
• detailed feedback with hyperlinks to the comprehensive theory module;
• an on-screen score count;
• adapts to the individual student’s problem areas.

Jual buku: Teaching and Researching: Motivation (Applied Linguistics in Action) 2nd Edition

Judul: Teaching and Researching: Motivation (Applied Linguistics in Action) 2nd Edition
Paperback: 344 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (July 31, 2010)
Language: English

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success - and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand.  This fully revised edition of a groundbreaking work reflects the dramatic changes the field of motivation research has undergone in recent years, including the impact of language globalisation and various dynamic and relational research methodologies, and offers ways in which this research can be put to practical use in the classroom and in research.
Key new features and material:

• A brand new chapter on current socio-dynamic and complex systems perspectives
• New approaches to motivating students based on the L2 Motivational Self System
• Illustrative summaries of qualitative and mixed methods studies
• Samples of new self-related motivation measures

Providing a clear and comprehensive theory-driven account of motivation, Teaching and Researching Motivation examines how theoretical insights can be used in everyday teaching practice, and offers practical tips. The final section provides a range of useful resources, including relevant websites, key reference works and tried and tested example questionnaires. Written in an accessible style and illustrated with concrete examples, it is an invaluable resource for teachers and researchers alike.

Jual Buku: Teaching and Researching: Speaking (Applied Linguistics in Action) 2nd Edition

Title:  Teaching and Researching: Speaking (Applied Linguistics in Action) 2nd Edition

Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (November 25, 2010)
Language: English
 Speaking is a dynamic, interpersonal process and one that strongly influences how we are perceived by others in a range of formal and everyday contexts. Despite this, speaking is often researched and taught as if it is simply writing delivered in a different mode. In Teaching and Researching Speaking, Rebecca Hughes suggests that we have less understanding than we might of important meaning-making aspects of speech such as prosody, gaze, affect, and the ways speakers collaborate and negotiate with one another in interaction.
This thoroughly revised and updated second edition looks to the future of the field, offering:

• A new chapter on assessment, discussing 'high stakes' oral language testing contexts such as immigration
• New material considering access to spoken data via the worldwide web and new technologies that allow neurolinguistic insights formerly hidden from view
• Summaries and case studies to help the reader understand how to approach researching speaking and encourages practitioners to question the models of speaking that they are using in their classrooms.

Reviewing materials and assessment practices in the light of current knowledge about spoken language, and highlighting areas for new work and collaboration between researchers and practitioners, this book will be a valuable resource for anyone involved in language teaching.

Jual Buku: Teaching and Researching: Listening (Applied Linguistics in Action) 2nd Edition

 

 

Title : Teaching and Researching: Listening (Applied Linguistics in Action) 2nd Edition

Paperback: 424 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (January 26, 2011)
Language: English

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use, and shows how these processes influence listening in a range of practical contexts. Through understanding the interaction between these processes, language educators and researchers can develop more robust research methods and more effective classroom language teaching approaches.
In this fully revised and updated second edition, the book:

• examines a full range of teaching methods and research initiatives related to listening
• gives definitions of key concepts in neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics
• provides a clear agenda for implementing listening strategies and designing tests
• offers an abundance of resources for immediate use for teaching and research

Featuring insightful quotes and concept boxes, chapter overviews and summaries to guide the reader, Teaching and Researching Listening will engage and inform teachers, teacher trainers and researchers investigating communicative language use.

Jual Buku: Teaching and Researching Writing (Applied Linguistics in Action) 2nd Edition

 

 

Title: Teaching and Researching Writing (Applied Linguistics in Action) 2nd Edition Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (November 28, 2009)
Language: English 
This book provides an authoritative, readable and up-to-date guide to the major themes and developments in current writing theory, research and teaching. Written in a clear, accessible style, it covers theoretical and conceptual issues, addresses current questions and shows how research has fed into state-of-the-art teaching methods, practices, materials and software applications. Thoroughly updated and revised, this second edition also contains a new chapter on important issues in writing such as genre, context and identity.
The book includes:

• Suggestions for teaching approaches and small-scale, do-able research projects, illustrated with case studies
• Clearly laid out discussions of key topics using bullet points, screen shots, sidebars and quote boxes
• An extensive compendium of resources including lists of major journals, websites, professional associations, conferences and on-line databases
• A recommended reading section and glossary of key terms

The combination of teaching and research analysis with practical information makes this an invaluable resource for teachers, supervisors, students, materials writers, trainers and professionals engaged in language study and teaching.

Assessment In The Classroom: Constructing And Interpreting Texts 1st Edition

Title :   Assessment In The Classroom: Constructing And Interpreting Texts 1st Edition
Page : 236 page
Publisher : Routledge; 1 edition (October 3, 1997)
Language : English


Educational assessment, at one time a relatively uncontroversial subject, is now riven by a diversity of views. The most crucial division is between those who continue to believe in the effectiveness of objective assessment techniques and those who favor alternative methods. This book presents an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses and rationales for both.

Jual Buku: How To Be An Effective Teacher In Higher Education: Answers to Lecturers' Questions 1st Edition

Title: How To Be An Effective Teacher In Higher Education: Answers to Lecturers' Questions 1st Edition
Page:  159 

This book is a practical resource for lecturers working with groups of all sizes, in a range of teaching environments. Written by a highly experienced teacher and lecturer, Alan Mortiboys, the book is a distillation of the common concerns and issues raised at workshops Alan has run.
The book reflects three of the six areas of activity outlined in the UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education:

Design and planning of learning activities and/or programmes of study

Teaching and/or supporting student learning

Evaluation of practice and continuing professional development The book answers 55 of the questions most commonly asked by HE teachers. There are 14 tasks to help the reader apply the answers to their own teaching practice. The answers are also linked to relevant literature for further reading.
How to be an Effective Teacher in Higher Education provides key reading for those teaching and undertaking PGCert in HE or other postgraduate teaching courses as well as academics concerned with their professional development.

Jual Buku: Educational Research: An Introduction, Eighth Edition

• Title: Educational Research: An Introduction, Eighth Edition
• Page: 704 pages
• Publisher: Pearson; 8 edition )
• Language: English

Educational Research: An Introduction, Eighth Edition, is the most comprehensive and widely respected text for scholars and for the preparation of graduate level students who need to understand educational research in depth and who may conduct original research for a dissertation or thesis. A comprehensive introduction to the major research methods and types of data analysis used today, this text provides detailed coverage of all facets of research, from the epistemology of quantitative and qualitative scientific inquiry to the design, data collection, analysis, and reporting of a completed study.

New Features: 

• New or revised sections on important topics such as hierarchical linear modeling, mixed methods research, the increasingly diverse range of genres and emphasis on justice-seeking perspectives in qualitative research, policies for protection of human subjects, the establishment of the Institute of Education Sciences, and changes in the ERIC system
• Illustration of research concepts and procedures are provided through descriptions of their use in recently published studies on such contemporary educational problems as the achievement gap, diversity in education, curriculum standards, and school accountability
• All citations have been updated to reflect new book editions and recent authoritative publications on key topics.
• Reorganization of selected chapters to improve topic organization and comprehensibility. 

Jual buku : Classroom Bullying Prevention, Pre-K–4th Grade: Children's Books, Lesson Plans, and Activities

Title: Classroom Bullying Prevention, Pre-K–4th Grade: Children's Books, Lesson Plans, and Activities

Paperback: 131 pages

Publisher: Linworth (January 3, 2013)

Language: English

• ISBN-10: 1610690974

Classroom Bullying Prevention, Pre-K–4th Grade: Children's Books, Lesson Plans, and Activities provides strategies to deter and prevent bullying—a serious and widespread social problem that starts early and causes great harm to not only the victims but also the bullies themselves.

The book's content and the included lesson plans are specifically designed to supplement school-wide efforts to reduce and eliminate bullying. The lesson plans enable students to understand the importance of environments where everyone feels welcomed, valued, and respected. Supplemented by creative illustrations and summarized tables of key information, the book will be helpful to community and school librarians, elementary school teachers, and paraprofessionals serving pre-K through 4th grade students. Additionally, school-based mental health professionals such as school counselors, psychologists, and social workers can utilize the book's resources to teach social skills in classrooms and group counseling sessions.

Jual Buku: Managing Your Classroom with Heart

Title: Managing Your Classroom with Heart
Writer: Katy Ridnouer
Page: 180
Published : 2006

Teaching is as much about students as it is about curriculum, and no one understands this better than middle and high school teachers. But even the most dedicated teacher can sometimes feel defeated by the challenge of reaching distracted, disconnected, and defiant adolescents. 

Drawing on her own experience as a high school teacher, Katy Ridnouer shares an approach to classroom management that will help you spend less time "dealing with" your adolescent learners and more time inspiring them to be their best selves in school and beyond. Managing with heart means accepting teenage students as they are and recognizing what they need: a connection with the curriculum; a sense of order; and most essentially, a sense that someone cares. 

In this book, you’ll find practical strategies for:

* Balancing care and discipline

* Interacting with students and their parents

* Establishing classroom routines that keep students on task

* Communicating expectations and ensuring accountability

* Handling common challenges, from classroom noise and personality conflicts to inappropriate clothing and disrespectful language

* Building trust and helping students feel emotionally and intellectually safe.

Vivid, real-life examples and questions for reflection make this a perfect choice for faculty reading groups and any middle or high school teacher looking to create a positive learning community, enhance students' confidence and interpersonal skills, and rediscover the reward of being a teacher.

Jual Buku: Research Methods for Everyday Life: Blending Qualitative and Quantitative Approach

Title:

Research Methods for Everyday Life: Blending Qualitative and Quantitative Approach

Writer:

Scott W. VanderStoep, Deidre D. Johnson

Page: 330

Published: 2009

This book offers an innovative introduction to social research. The book explores all stages of the research process and it features both quantitative and qualitative methods. Research design topics include sampling techniques, choosing a research design, and determining research question that inform public opinion and direct future studies. Throughout the book, the authors provide vivid and engaging examples that reinforce the reading and understanding of social science research. "Your Turn" boxes contain activities that allow students to practice research skills, such as sampling, naturalistic observation, survey collection, coding, analysis, and report writing.

Jual Buku : Methods in Educational Research Methods in Educational Research

Title : 
Methods in Educational Research: From Theory to Practice
Page : 516
Published : 2010

Methods in Educational Research Methods in Educational Research is designed to prepare students for the real world of educational research. It focuses on scientifically-based methods, school accountability, and the professional demands of the twenty-first century, empowering researchers to take an active role in conducting research in their classrooms, districts, and the greater educational community. Like the first edition, this edition helps students, educators, and researchers develop a broad and deep understanding of research methodologies. It includes substantial new content on the impact of No Child Left Behind legislation, school reform, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, logic modeling, action research, and other areas. Special features to assist the teaching and learning processes include vignettes illustrating research tied to practice, suggested readings at the end of each chapter, and discussion questions to reinforce chapter content. Praise for the Previous Edition

"A new attempt to make this subject more relevant and appealing to students. Most striking is how useful this book is because it is really grounded in educational research. It is very well written and quite relevant for educational researchers or for the student hoping to become one." -PsycCRITIQUES /American Psychological Association

"I applaud the authors for their attempt to cover a wide range of material. The straightforward language of the book helps make the material understandable for readers." -Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation