School curricula are divided by subject areas rather than focusing on deeper interdisciplinary conceptual relationships
School curricula are divided by subject areas rather than a focus on deeper interdisciplinary conceptual relationships
Prosocial World
Prosocial World
Sangaramoorthy, T., & Kroeger, K. A. (2020). Rapid ethnographic assessments: A practical approach and toolkit for collaborative community research. Routledge.
This book provides provides a practical guide to understanding and conducting rapid ethnographic assessments (REAs) with an emphasis on their use in public health contexts. This team-based, multi-method, relatively low-cost approach results in rich understandings of social, economic, and policy factors that contribute to the root causes of an emerging situation and provides rapid, practical feedback to policy makers and programs.
Focus Groups
Focus groups are discussions with a group of people about a topic, led by a facilitator. Focus groups are well suited for the collection of qualitative information from people about their thoughts and experiences. In contrast to interviews, the questions are asked in an interactive group setting where participants are free to talk with other group members.
Interviews
Interviews are usually between two people – an interviewer and an interviewee. Interviews are well suited for the collection of qualitative information from people about their thoughts and experiences. Interviews allow a researcher to ask follow up questions to understand the meaning of what people are saying.
Use conversation starters to launch and sustain school improvement processes
How do you start a conversation about improving your school? Our collection of conversation starters is a good place to start.
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Questionnaires and Surveys
Questionnaires are a method for gathering written information from people on a variety of questions. Questionnaires can contain qualitative and quantitative questions, open-ended or closed questions.
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Preschool Teaching and Learning Comprehension Index (PTLCI)
a comprehensive Preschool Teaching and Learning Comprehension Index (PTLCI) based on tasks derived from previous studies investigating children’s understanding of knowledge and intention in teaching and learning.
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Community Science Field Guide to School Culture
Schools are central social environments for young people to grow and develop themselves. How schools are governed, and which norms, values, and institutions get adopted, can all drive major life trajectories for how students think about their own learning and civic capacities and about the world they live in. This community science field guide provides supports for students around the world to investigate and strengthen the cooperation dynamics of their own school governance systems.
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