Teacher's Guide to Classroom Research

David Hopkins is the inaugural HSBC Chair in International Leadership, International arm of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. Between 2002 and 2005 he served three Secretary of States as the Chief Adviser on School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills. Previously, he was Chair of the Leicester City Partnership Board and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Nottingham. David is also an International Mountain Guide who still climbs regularly in the Alps and Himalayas. He has previously outlined his views on teaching quality, school improvement and large scale reform in Hopkins D. (2001) School Improvement for Real, Routledge / Falmer and Hopkins D (2007) Every School a Great School, Open University Press.

• Preface to the fifth editionAcknowledgementsA teacher's guide to classroom researchClassroom research in actionWhy classroom research by teachers?Action research and classroom research by teachersDeveloping a focusPrinciples of classroom observationMethods of observation in classroom researchData gatheringAnalysing classroom research dataReporting classroom researchTeaching and learning as the heartland of classroom researchTeacher research, school improvement and system reformBibliographyIndex