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Claire Lee, Editor; Chris Bailey, Editor; Cathy Burnett, Editor; Jennifer Rowsell, Editor – Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 2022
This book asks researchers what uncertainty means for literacy research, and for how literacy plays through uncertain lives. While the book is not focused only on COVID-19, it is significant that it was written in 2020-2021, when our authors' and readers' working and personal lives were thrown into disarray by stay-at-home orders. The book opens…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Research, Interdisciplinary Approach, COVID-19
Arlo Kempf – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
From 2011 to 2013, I accidentally studied US and Canadian teacher perceptions of standardized testing and its effects in the classroom. I had intended to study the role of equity issues in teacher practice; however, in conversation with teachers during initial semi-structured interviews in the United States, it became clear that understanding the…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Teacher Attitudes, Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries
De Broucker, Patrice, Ed.; Sweetman, Arthur, Ed. – 2001
This book is a collection of 19 essays that broadly treat the use of evidence in informing educational policy and practice in Canada: (1) "Knowledge and Action in Educational Policy and Politics" (Benjamin Levin); (2) "Data, Data Everywhere (and We Don't Know What to Do): Using Data for Wise Decisions in Schools" (Lorna M.…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Educational Improvement