A Practical Guide to Classroom Research

Clive Millar

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040376652
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Education

This concise and accessible book is a practical guide to qualitative classroom research, including extended case-studies of real research projects which serve as concrete examples of the advice provided. It gives a step by step account of how qualitative classroom research can be carried out and completed, with clear sets of guidelines for each stage and key points for consideration highlighted throughout. It can be read as a comprehensive guide to the research process, from beginning to end or as a resource to dip into to answer specific problems or queries.

It is aimed at all college, university or school-based education students. In addition it is highly suitable for qualified teachers responding to the drive for greater evidence-based teaching in classrooms.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Meet the author
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• Endorsement
• Introduction
• 1. Becoming a researcher
• 2. A research report format: having a destination and a route
• 3. Where to start: with theory or practice?
• 4. Asking the research question
• 5. Putting the research question to work Part 1: developing observation guides
• 6. Putting the research question to work Part 2: developing interview guides
• 7. Writing your research plan
• 8. Reviewing your research process
• 9. Organising your research data
• 10. Analysing your research data
• 11. Evaluating your research report
• Appendix 1: Proposed format for a research report
• Appendix 2: Why research in ‘real time’ matters
• Suggested further reading
• References
• Index