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UNINA9910797591803321 |
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Autore |
Schmuck Richard A. |
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Titolo |
Practical action research for change / / Richard A. Schmuck ; foreword by Eleanor Perry ; indexer, Richard A. Schmuck ; cover designer, Audrey Snodgrass |
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Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2006 |
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©2006 |
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1-4833-6213-2 |
1-4833-6430-5 |
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[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Action research in education |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1 - Reflective Professional Practice""; ""Reflections of the Future, Past, and Present""; ""Reflective Educators Seek Self-Knowledge""; ""The Search for Self-Knowledge Leads to Solitary Dialogue""; ""Self-Knowledge and Solitary Dialogue Lead to Professional Maturity""; ""Mature Educators Try to Improve Continually""; ""Stage 1: Assess the Situation""; ""Stage 2: Set Clear Goals""; ""Stage 3: Brainstorm Action Strategies""; ""Stage 4: Implement Action Plans"" |
""Stage 5: Monitor Your Own Actions""""Stage 6: Assess Others� Reactions""; ""Stage 7: Evaluate What Others Have Learned""; ""Stage 8: Confront Yourself with the Results""; ""Stage 9: Reflect on Actions to Take Next""; ""Stage 10: Assess the New Situation and Set New Goals""; ""Using the Tools of Reflection to Move toward Action Research""; ""Journal-Writing Assignments""; ""Chapter 2 - Educators and Continuous Improvement""; ""Three Faces of Continuous Improvement""; ""Action Research: Two Types of Social Scientists""; ""Differences between Action Research and Traditional Research"" |
""An Example of Action Research""""Processes of Continuous Improvement""; ""Journal-Writing Assignments""; ""Chapter 3 - Action Research: Definitions, Models, Steps, and Phases""; ""Contemporary |
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Need for Action Research""; ""Definitions of Action Research""; ""Action Research and Group Dynamics""; ""Two Models of Action Research""; ""Proactive Action Research""; ""Responsive Action Research""; ""The Models Compared""; ""Three Phases of Action Research""; ""Initiation""; ""Detection""; ""Judgment""; ""Research during Each Phase""; ""Journal-Writing Assignments"" |
""Chapter 4 - Research Methods: Procedures, Instruments, Special Issues, and Ethics""""Data Collection in Action Research""; ""Questionnaires""; ""Factual Questionnaires""; ""Standardized Tests: Special Factual Questionnaires""; ""Questionnaires about Feelings""; ""Questionnaires about Thoughts""; ""Questionnaires about Behaviors""; ""Tips on Making Questionnaires""; ""Interviews""; ""One-on-One Informal Interviews""; ""Focus Group Informal Interviews""; ""One-on-One Formal Interviews""; ""Focus Group Formal Interviews""; ""Observations""; ""Observant Participation"" |
""Structured Observations""""Documents""; ""Special Issues of Action Research""; ""Psychometric Challenges""; ""Psychological Obstacles""; ""Process Pitfalls""; ""The Ethics of Action Research""; ""Journal-Writing Assignments""; ""Chapter 5 - Proactive Action Research""; ""Marilyn Lund""; ""Marilyn Reflects on Her Practice""; ""Marilyn�s Knowledge (and Methods) Search""; ""Marilyn�s Hopes and Concerns""; ""Marilyn�s New Practices""; ""Marilyn Collects Data""; ""Marilyn Checks on What the Data Mean""; ""Marilyn Reflects on Alternative Ways to Behave"" |
""Marilyn Fine-Tunes Her New Practice"" |
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Richard Schmuck demonstrates how educators can use personal reflection and action research to convert frustrations into solvable problems and improved professional practice. |
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UNINA9910375924503321 |
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Autore |
Grossman Robert |
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Titolo |
KDD-2005 : proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 21-24, 2005, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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[Place of publication not identified], : ACM Press, 2005 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (844 p.;) |
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Database management |
Data mining |
Engineering & Applied Sciences |
Computer Science |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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