Connecting Research and Practice for Educational Improvement

Connecting Research and Practice for Educational Improvement presents powerful arguments and richly illustrated cases for how more collaborative relationships between researchers and educators can yield more relevant research that impacts practice. This book can be useful for anyone teaching or learning about research–practice partnerships, in both school and out-of-school settings. The chapters highlight the different dispositions and skills needed to cultivate ethical relationships and promote equity through partnerships and provide rich frameworks for guiding future work.

• Creating Research-Practice Partnerships in Education
• Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research
• Mixed Methods Applications in Action Research: From Methods to Community Action
• Mixed Methods Research: A Guide to the Field (Mixed Methods Research Series)
• Systems for Instructional Improvement: Creating Coherence from the Classroom to the District Office
• Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
• Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research
• Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research
• The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers Third Edition
• Ambitious Science Teaching