Search and Re-search: What the Inquiring Teacher Needs to Know (Falmer Press Teachers' Library Series, No. 2)

provides Guidance On How To Read Research And How To Conduct Research In The Classroom. It Aims To Engender In Teachers An Awareness Of The Possibility Of Research To Broaden Their Outlook Of Their Profession. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of Tables......Page 8 List of Figures......Page 9 Series Editor's Preface......Page 10 Introduction......Page 11 An Inquiring/Learning Perspective......Page 14 New Lenses for Old Problems: What We Believe is What We See John S. Mayher......Page 16 The Never-ending Cycle of Teacher Growth John S. Mayher and Rita S. Brause......Page 36 Interpreting Published Research on Classroom Practice......Page 56 Research Objectives: Generating Hypotheses, Testing Hypotheses and Critiquing Educational Practice Rita S. Brause and John S. Mayher......Page 58 Reading and Understanding Hypothesis Testing Research William L. Smith......Page 76 Reading Hypothesis Generating Research Ken Kantor......Page 104 Designing and Conducting Classroom Research......Page 126 Finding and Framing Questions John S. Mayher and Rita S. Brause......Page 128 Collecting and Analyzing Classroom Data in Theory and in Practice Rita S. Brause and John S. Mayher......Page 144 Testing Hypotheses in Your Classroom James L. Collins......Page 170 Hypothesis Generating Studies in Your Classroom Rita S. Brause......Page 194 Concluding and Beginning John S. Mayher and Rita S. Brause......Page 220 Notes on Contributors......Page 224 Index......Page 226 As we begin our journey into the world of research we often find, like Alice when she first went through the looking-glass, a world where our previously established mental constructs don't work very well to account for the new ideas which new theoretical lenses are revealing to us. Edited By Rita S. Brause And John S. Mayher. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.