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Jeff Coon; Paulina N. Silva; Alexander Etz; Barbara W. Sarnecka – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2025
Bayesian methods offer many advantages when applied to psychological research, yet they may seem esoteric to researchers who are accustomed to traditional methods. This paper aims to lower the barrier of entry for developmental psychologists who are interested in using Bayesian methods. We provide worked examples of how to analyze common study…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Bayesian Statistics, Research Methodology, Psychological Studies
Milica Savic; Anders Myrset; Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book introduces the main concepts of pragmatics as they relate to the young English language learner classroom and research with young second language learners (YLLs). It considers the speech acts which are particularly relevant to YLLs and presents research findings on learners' development of speech act perception and production. It…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Pragmatics, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers
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Parks, Louisa; Peters, Wim – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
The ever-increasing application of Digital Humanities techniques to social scientific research questions calls for continuous reflection on how they can contribute to scholarly research in combination with other more common text analysis methods. This article explores the various dimensions along which scholarly text analysis can be performed,…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Humanities, Social Science Research, Content Analysis
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Ahmed, Afaq; Ali, Sajid – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2023
This article delineates the process through which a quantitative study in the context of Pakistan was adapted into emergent mixed methods research due to COVID-19-related complexities. The in-process data collection was halted abruptly as schools were closed and lockdowns were imposed across Pakistan in the early 2020s due to COVID-19. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Research Methodology
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Lake Sagaris; Javier Peñafiel; Romina Orellana; María Fernanda Guajardo – Educational Action Research, 2024
Using a survey, interviews, and reflections by the teaching-research team, we explored the effects of almost a decade of experimentation, inspired by Freire's pedagogy for liberation, which applied participatory action research in engineering courses and in cities to develop professionals who are more committed to sustainability and more able to…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Sustainability, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Hiebert, James; Cai, Jinfa; Hwang, Stephen; Morris, Anne K.; Hohensee, Charles – Research in Mathematics Education, 2022
This book is about scientific inquiry. Designed for early and mid-career researchers, it is a practical manual for conducting and communicating high-quality research in (mathematics) education. Based on the authors' extensive experience as researchers, as mentors, and as members of the editorial team for the Journal for Research in Mathematics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Scientific Research, Researchers, Educational Research
Marianne Nikolov, Editor; Stela Letica Krevelj, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2024
Over the past six decades, the field of teaching modern foreign languages to young learners has come a long way, from the early surmises about the advantages of a young start to today's widespread integration of foreign languages into curricula in public and private schools. The chapters in this book bring together internationally renowned…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, FLES
Tomáš Janík; Jan Slavík; Petr Najvar; Tereza Cešková – Routledge Research in Education, 2024
This volume presents a novel, theoretical, micro-analytical model -- the 3A Methodology -- for assessing the quality of school education. Drawing on philosophers as well as theoretical and pedagogical traditions from European and American contexts, the authors construct a model that is relevant to teachers, researchers, and teacher educators…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Instructional Improvement, Educational Research, Research Methodology
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Lee, Yen-Mei – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The study aimed to conduct a systematic literature review to identify the trends, impacts, and challenges of mobile microlearning (MML) research. Using five academic databases from the fields of social science, engineering, and medical science as search sources, 26 scholarly articles, published between 2015 and 2020, were retrieved. The study…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Instructional Effectiveness
Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2024
Dr Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah's article, "The New Territory of Educational Research in TESOL/TEFL: What Novice Researchers Should Know", provides a comprehensive guide for novice researchers in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). It emphasises the importance of research…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Oude Groote Beverborg, Arnoud, Ed.; Feldhoff, Tobias, Ed.; Maag Merki, Katharina, Ed.; Radisch, Falk, Ed. – Accountability and Educational Improvement, 2021
This open access book discusses challenges in school improvement research and different methodological approaches that have the potential to foster school improvement research. Research on school improvement and accountability analysis places high demands on a study's design and method. The potential of combining the depth of case studies with the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Improvement, Longitudinal Studies, Mixed Methods Research
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Mott, Rebecca – Journal of Extension, 2018
With today's technology, Extension professionals have a variety of tools available for program evaluation. This article describes an innovative platform called VoiceThread that has been used in many classrooms but also is useful for conducting virtual focus group research. I explain how this tool can be used to collect qualitative participant…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Extension Education, Qualitative Research
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Maserole Christina Kgari-Masondo, Editor – IGI Global, 2025
Literature indicates that sociolinguists and educationists often claim multilingual practice and Africanizing and Indigenizing education will jeopardize national unity and social cohesion. Such claims delay the implementation of decolonization policies and the transformation of the curriculum under false assumptions. However, research reveals many…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Indigenous Populations, Higher Education, College Students
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Celia Gleason; Scott Strother; Nancy Tiên; Rosalind Owen – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Introduction: The proposed poster will describe the observational data collection methodology and preliminary findings from a large-scale efficacy study examining a corequisite mathematics intervention at the community college level. Specifically, the larger study is conducting a randomized controlled trial of the Carnegie Math Pathways (CMP)…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Research Methodology, College Mathematics, Community Colleges
Leavy, Patricia, Ed. – Oxford University Press, 2020
"The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, Second Edition" presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the field of qualitative research. Divided into eight parts, the forty chapters address key topics in the field such as approaches to qualitative research (philosophical perspectives), narrative inquiry, field research,…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, History, Ethics, Philosophy
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