Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators - Softcover

Mertler, Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452244421 ISBN 13: 9781452244426

Publisher: Sage Inc, 2013

Synopsis

This 4th Edition of Action Research introduces practicing educators to the process of conducting classroom-based action research. The book’s practicality stems from its focus on research methods and procedures that educators can use with their everyday instructional practices, classroom activities, and school procedures.

In this new fourth edition, Craig Mertler has added coverage of high interest topics like teacher empowerment and evaluation, Google Scholar, mixed-methods research designs, ethics and much more.

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• Enhanced discussions on ethics and action research to help students better maneuver ethical dilemmas that arise in action research
• Discussions of two Action Research Portraits, offering students a more comprehensive look at the process of an action research project
• Enhanced discussions of how to write an action research report and how to incorporate APA style, preparing students to successfully complete a report by the end of the course.

About this title

About the Author

Craig A. Mertler is currently an Associate Professor of Action Research and Quantitative Methods at Barry University in Miami, Florida. He began his career as a high school biology teacher. He has been an educator for 39 years―29 of those in higher education at Bowling Green State University, the University of West Georgia, Lynn University, Arizona State University, and Barry University, and 12 years as an administrator (department chair, doctoral program director, and education dean). Over his career, he has taught courses focused on the application of action research to promote educator empowerment, school improvement, and job-embedded professional development, as well as classroom assessment, research methods, and statistical analyses. 

He has served as the research methodology expert and/or chair on more than 140 doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. He is the author of 30 books, 9 invited book chapters, and 25 refereed journal articles. He has also presented more than 40 research papers at professional meetings around the country, as well as internationally.

He conducts workshops for in-service educational professionals (at all levels) on classroom-based action research and on the topics of classroom assessment and assessment literacy, as well as data-driven educational decision making. His primary research and consulting interests include classroom-based action research, data-driven educational decision making, professional learning communities, and classroom teachers’ assessment literacy. In his leisure time, he enjoys traveling with his family to the beach and sometimes writing a little fiction. Dr. Mertler can be reached at craig.mertler@gmail.com for consulting, professional development, and speaking engagements. Additionally, you can visit his website at www.craigmertler.com.

 

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Sage Inc
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1452244421
• ISBN 13: 9781452244426
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 352