Research
IUSWP Fellows: Online Teacher-Research ResourcesA selection of informative,
user-friendly Web sites dedicated to practitioner research compiled by the
Teacher Inquiry Communities Network.
Action Research at Queen's University Produced by Queen's University, Toronto, this wonderfully comprehensive site is valuable for teacher-researchers at all levels of experience. The site's most valuable resources are its project write-ups, which describe a variety of work in paragraph summaries or lengthier accounts, and in colloquial or more formal language, with helpful additions like illustrative charts. This site is also a gateway to several other Canadian and British sites.
The Exploratorium Institute for Inquiry This site blends curriculum information about inquiry-based learning and science with the reflections of teacher-researchers developing new practices. Teacher Anthony Cody writes: "Our central inquiry as teachers is not into pinholes or foam, but into our own practice as educators, and into the techniques and methods which will make us effective at reaching our students."
Horace, Coalition of Essential Schools Documents and resources for teachers who would like to link their research efforts to larger programs of school reform can be found through Horace, the newsletter of the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES). Look for articles by teacher-researchers in CES schools as well as tips on using school data to understand equity and achievement at the school level.
Looking at Student Work Several organizations that foster approaches to reviewing and understanding student work as a basis for curriculum and school improvement have worked together to develop this site where teachers can learn about protocols and tools teachers have found effective for work study.
Networks: An On-line Journal for Teacher Research Based at the University of Toronto but shaped by the input of an international editorial board, Networks invites browsers to read, talk, and publish on teacher research.
Research about Teaching and Learning Indiana University South Bend maintains this site, which contains easily accessible hot-button topics for beginning teacher-researchers, such as "Solutions to Problems Doing Research on Teaching," and "Ethical Issues in Research."
Teacher-As-Researcher, ERIC Digests What is action research? What is the purpose of teacher action research? ERIC, the Department of Education's Educational Resources Information Center, answers these questions and others about teacher research on one of their digests, which features a list of book-length resources to consult at the end.
Teacher Research, George Mason University This site, which is maintained by George Mason University, lists resources and background information for teachers interested in using research practices in their classrooms.
Electronic Journals Featuring Educational Research
The ALAN Review (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents) [USA] http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/alan-review.html Australian Educational Computing [Australia] http://www.acce.edu.au/journal Australian Journal of Educational Technology [Australia] http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet.html Bilingual Research Journal [USA] http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/miscpubs/nabe/brj/ Computers and Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of Writing [USA]
http://corax.cwrl.utexas.edu/cac/subscriptions.html Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood [UK] http://www.triangle.co.uk/ciec/00.htm Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education [USA] http://www.citejournal.org Current Issues in Education [USA]
http://cie.ed.asu.edu/ Early Childhood Research & Practice [USA]
http://www.ecrp.uiuc.edu/ Education Next [USA]
http://www.educationnext.org
National Writing Project Teacher Inquiry Communities Network Education Review [USA] http://coe.asu.edu/edrev Educational Researcher [USA]
http://www.aera.net/pubs/er/ Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education [USA] http://ejite.isu.edu Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education [USA] http://www.eastern.edu/publications Essays in Education [USA] http://www.columbiacollegesc.edu/essays/ Florida Journal of Educational Research [USA] http://www.coedu.usf.edu/fjer/ International Journal of Education & the Arts [USA] http://ijea.asu.edu International Journal of Educational Technology [USA] http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu/ijet Journal of American Indian Education [USA]
http://jaie.asu.edu Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication [USA]
http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc Journal of Interactive Media in Education [UK]
http://www-jime.open.ac.uk Journal of Research for Educational Leaders, The [USA] http://www.uiowa.edu/~jrel/ Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning [USA] http://www.iusb.edu/~josotl/Vol1No1/shulman.pdf Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments [USA]
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research [Canada] http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~ctd/networks/links.html