Educational Research in an Age of Accountability

by Robert E. Slavin

The book is designed to enable students to become intelligent consumers of educational research in order to help create effective and acoountable 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. The author emphasizes how responses to the accountabilit y movement in schools can be focused around using and understanding scientific inquiry. The book balances quantititive and qualitative research methodology and discusses action research and mixed methods in detail. Students are shown how to analyze and evaluate the 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.

404 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 2006

About the author

Robert E. Slavin is Co-director of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk, Johns Hopkins University.

Reviews

[Linda Thornton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slavin departs from the run-of-the-press research books by respecting the reader enough to start with the important stuff, then flesh it out with details.

[Margaret · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is killing me...it's better than Ambien...