Since the advent of molecular cloning, target based screening has become the norm in pharmaceutical drug discovery. A large number of potential drug targets have been cloned and functionally expressed, and enormous progress has been made in the development, miniaturization and automation of cell based assays on target molecules recombinantly expressed in mammalian cell lines. This approach has …
In recent years, action research (AR) has become increasingly popular in second language teaching circles. Language teachers in many countries have heard about AR, either through formal courses of study, or in-service teacher education, and are interested in knowing more about it. Over the last two decades, I have worked with teachers all over the world, who are committed to their own professio…
This rewritten and updated sixth edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education covers the whole range of methods currently employed by educational research at all stages. It has fivemain parts: the context of educational research, planning educational research, styles of educational research, strategies for data collection and researching and data analysis. The book conta…
It is now well over twenty years since this book was originally published and the educational landscape in Britain and most other Western countries has changed dramatically since 1985. One of the most dominant changes observed since then is the increase in centralized policy-making, however, far from undermining the role of ‘teacher-researcher’, it has in my opinion made such a professional…