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This MESHGuide is designed to provide teachers with practical strategies to develop interesting and relevant research questions and to formulate a research design to engage in research-informed practice in their school or setting.

This MESHGuide draws on a range of key literature in the field of social science research, and it has been informed by lessons learned from the author's research. The guide aims to help teachers to:

• understand the purpose of a research design
• understand the significance of formulating a research question
• develop the initial focus of your research by exploring different potential starting points for this
• understand different ways of categorising research questions
• identify the characteristics of good research questions and apply these in practice
• develop and evaluate your own research questions
• operationalize your research aim so that you can develop appropriate research tools to answer your research questions by developing question-method connections in your own research
• improve your research data through understanding the nature of validity and reliability and exploration factors that could impact on these 

This guide is designed to help teachers to:

• understand how to use other people’s writing to inform their own research;
• develop a strategy for carrying out a search of the literature;
• organise the themes logically;
• evaluate the research they read;
• think about the features of a reflective literature review and explore how to achieve this in practice

This MESHGuide draws on a range of key literature in the field of social science research. Also its design has been informed by lessons learned from the author's research, which has focused on the following areas:

• developing effective collaborative learning in science
• factors influencing learning through play in the early years
• student teachers’ engagement with research and its impact on their developing practice
• constructivist informed practice in science within initial teacher education
• creativity in learning and teaching.