Action Research - (Christopher-Gordon New Editions) 3rd Edition by Jeffrey Glanz (Paperback)

About the Book

This interactive edition of the widely popular resource features separate chapters introducing quantitative and qualitative research approaches and data analyses. A new chapter outlines how to initiate an action research project and another gives you just what you need to complete a project.

Book Synopsis

This interactive edition of the widely popular resource features separate chapters introducing quantitative and qualitative research approaches and data analyses. A new chapter outlines how to initiate an action research project and another gives you just what you need to complete a project.

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Action Research: An Educational Leader's Guide to School Improvement third edition continues to fill a gap in research literature: a highly readable text that can be used in a university context and by in-service practitioners. Teachers, teacher leaders, and administrators can respond to accountability demands and simultaneously maintain reflective practices by following Glanz's clear action research guidelines.

Once in a while an educator comes along who sets the bar for the entire profession. In the case of Educational Leadership, that educator is Jeffrey Glanz. As a distinguished scholar who is known worldwide, Glanz has no equal when it comes to his educational expertise as a former endowed professor, assistant principal, and teacher. With this book Dr. Glanz has offered a roadmap for educational leaders of all ranks, whether they are pre-service teachers in higher education, building administrators, or the most important educational leaders of all--teachers in the field. Action Research is a must-read and the most thorough book on the topic that can be found anywhere.

The third edition of Action Research: An Educational Leader's Guide to School Improvement offers a compass for school leaders and for budding undergraduate and graduate-level researchers who want to understand and improve learning in schools. There are many books about action research, but Glanz offers a suite of examples and solid explanations grounded in theory which leads the reader from the design and analysis of data to the extrapolation of meanings regardless of context or topics under investigation. Glanz assembles the very best thinking about action research and, in many ways, shows with razor focus how to make action research actionable.

About the Author

Jeffrey Glanz is Head of the M.Ed. program in leadership and management at Michlala-Jerusalem College, and a Professor of Education in the Azrieli Graduate Schoolat Yeshiva University.