Learning Sciences Research for Teaching

Jan van Aalst is Honorary Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong, and Visiting Scholar in ELAN, Faculty of Behavioral Sciences and Management, at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Jin Mu is a senior research fellow in the Mathematics Department, University of Munich, Germany. Crina Damşa is Associate Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Oslo, Norway. Sydney E. Msonde is Senior Lecturer at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Part I: Foundations 1. Opening the conversation 2. Using research in professional development 3. Elementary Statistics 4. Accessing the Research Literature 5. The Research Article 6. Science, social science, and the "post" discourses 7. Validity, integrity, and impact Part II: Selected Approaches 8. Experimental Research 9. Case Studies and Ethnography 10. Design research Part III: Selected Methods 11. Quantitative instruments 12. Estimation and hypothesis testing 13. Correlation and linear regression analysis 14. Analysis of Experiments 15. Learning Analytics 16. Collecting and Processing Qualitative Data 17. Qualitative data analysis Appendices