TY - BOOK AU - MONTANO Benita (editor) TI - Education research: challenges, training techniques and improvements SN - 9781614703150 (hbk.) : PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Nova science KW - EDUCATION KW - RESEARCH N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - This book presents current research in the study of education, with a particular focus on the training techniques for educators and educational improvements. Topics discussed include connecting ethnic minority parents to school; school development in Hong Kong early childhood education; examining students' attitudes to the mobile phone as an educational tool; relevant literature to the training of educators; instructional expenditures and accountability ratings; school and classroom diversity effects on cognitive and non-cognitive student outcomes; problem-solving as a component of the constructivist view of learning and the call for educational game design patterns ER -