The book is designed to enable students to become intelligent consumers of educational research in order to help create effective and accountable learning environments. Written in a very clear and user-friendly style, this text focuses on understanding the intent of the researcher, the procedures, and the results so that students can use appropriate research findings to inform school change. This text emphasizes how responses to the accountability movement in schools can be focused around using and understanding scientific inquiry. It balances quantitative and qualitative research methodology and discusses action research and mixed methods in detail. Principles for conducting research and criteria for evaluating its overall credibility are presented in a concise manner. Students are shown how to analyze and evaluate research, and judge the usefulness of the findings for educational practice. In addition, students are shown how this knowledge can translate to their own classrooms.The test begins with simple words and gradually becomes more difficult. ... Splithalf reliability estimates are reported to be .98 for first graders. ... Word Comprehension: Antonyms, Synonyms, and Analogies Subtests of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Test-Revised. ... On the Analogies subtest, students read three words, two of which are related to each other, and are asked to supply a fourth word thatanbsp;...
|Title||:||Educational Research in an Age of Accountability|
|Author||:||Robert E. Slavin|
|Publisher||:||Pearson College Division - 2007|