The Art of Classroom Inquiry. A Handbook for Teacher Researchers
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Manufacturer: Heinemann
Author: Ruth Shagoury Hubbard
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 2003-07-17
Publisher: Heinemann
Label: Heinemann
Number Of Pages: 256
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Editorial Review
Groundbreaking when first published, The Art of Classroom Inquiry has become the classic book on the subject, helping tens of thousands of preservice and inservice teachers discover successful ways to conduct research in their classrooms. Thoroughly updated to reflect current thinking and technologies, this revised edition continues to show teachers how they can carefully and systematically ask and answer their own questions about learning. In crisp, jargon-free prose, Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda Miller Power present the nuts and bolts of classroom research strategies - interviewing and notetaking techniques, methods for categorizing data, online support, hands-on activities for testing research methods and honing skills, plus much more.
Hubbard and Power have worked for 15 years with teacher-researchers from across the country. In The Art of Classroom Inquiry they give teacher research a human face, from preservice and beginning teachers at work in their classrooms to veterans with suggestions and examples to share. The stories of individual growth demonstrate why and how teacher research is transforming the ways teachers view themselves and their classrooms. And each chapter of this book shows how to get there, including:
- getting started - deciding what to investigate and how to frame questions
- designing the research to fit your area of investigation
- gathering data in the midst of teaching
- making sense of that mountain of data
- reviewing the literature and the implications of others' research on your findings
- converting research for sharing with a wider audience
- creating a teacher-research network and support group.
The Art of Classroom Inquiry can help any aspiring teacher-researcher develop observation and analytical skills. But it is much more than a collection of research techniques - it is a celebration of what is possible in classrooms when teachers pursue answers to their own questions about learning.
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Customer Reviews
again 
2008-03-30
I bought this book last semester for a grad course. I have to confess that I hardly read it but it was useful and intersting (the little I read).Sold it. This semester I am taking a research class and have to finish my paper by may 29. My research teacher suggested that I buy this bok to help me with certain issues. Gosh, buying it again. This time I am keeping it for good. other classmates told me the book was great as well.
We'll see...
college textbook 2008-03-02
The bookstore was sold out, and I needed this book for my homework. Amazon got the book to me just in time.
Great for Student -Teacher Action Researchers 2008-02-27
The book is easy to follow and read. It gives plenty of examples with student work samples, and in-class dialogue. It is fantastic!
Good Starting Point 
2006-02-24
I purchased this text for a graduate course. It is a good resource to help teachers get started. If you feel clueless how to hone your questions and develop action research, this will help you get started from zero. However, I agree with the comments of "This book is backwards". The book does not get into the details of data collection.
This book is backwards! 
2005-09-20
This book has already put me to sleep twice! The authors spend too much time on how to take notes and write a paragraph, which we should already know how to do. However, they spend little or no time talking about *real* research -- what makes a good research project? How do we formulate a hypothesis? What kinds of anecdotal information should we be looking for? This is the only one of my education textbooks that I will be selling back!!
readable for a text book 
2005-07-23
Groundbreaking when first published, The Art of Classroom Inquiry has become the classic book on the subject, helping tens of thousands of preservice and inservice teachers discover successful ways to conduct research in their classrooms. Thoroughly updated to reflect current thinking and technologies, this revised edition continues to show teachers how they can carefully and systematically ask and answer their own questions about learning. In crisp, jargon-free prose, Ruth Shagoury Hubbard and Brenda Miller Power present the nuts and bolts of classroom research strategies - interviewing and notetaking techniques, methods for categorizing data, online support, hands-on activities for testing research methods and honing skills, plus much more.
Hubbard and Power have worked for 15 years with teacher-researchers from across the country. In The Art of Classroom Inquiry they give teacher research a human face, from preservice and beginning teachers at work in their classrooms to veterans with suggestions and examples to share. The stories of individual growth demonstrate why and how teacher research is transforming the ways teachers view themselves and their classrooms. And each chapter of this book shows how to get there, including:
- getting started - deciding what to investigate and how to frame questions
- designing the research to fit your area of investigation
- gathering data in the midst of teaching
- making sense of that mountain of data
- reviewing the literature and the implications of others' research on your findings
- converting research for sharing with a wider audience
- creating a teacher-research network and support group.
The Art of Classroom Inquiry can help any aspiring teacher-researcher develop observation and analytical skills. But it is much more than a collection of research techniques - it is a celebration of what is possible in classrooms when teachers pursue answers to their own questions about learning.
