This case study is based on the study entitled "COVID-19: experiences of teaching-mothers in Pakistan". The study was conducted in 2020 to understand the lived experience of being a Pakistani teaching-mother during lockdown for COVID-19. This case study provides an overview of the chosen research and specifically discusses the decisions…

Internet parent-implemented interventions show promise as an ideal format for the provision of stand-alone or supplemental services. However, the interventions are only useful if they are accessed. This case will help the reader to understand issues and solutions related to the recruitment and retention of parents in a digital intervention…

This case study discusses how autoethnographic approaches can be used as a qualitative research tool. Based in a U.K. university Faculty of Education, it outlines a collaborative project designed to investigate barriers to engagement with academic writing development for early career researchers. After a brief overview of the project and its…

This case study shares the lessons learned from the data collection phase of my research project, specifically the use of online interviews with stimulus material. My research explores secondary school teachers' perceptions of and experiences with moral education in the United Kingdom and uses current government policies regarding the moral…

Five years after the publication of "Leaders of Their Own Learning," EL Education is back with a new companion guide to help you tackle the common challenges of student-engaged assessment. This unique, student-centered approach to assessment equips and compels students to understand goals for their learning and growth, track their…

Case studies are widely used in qualitative research. Often, they require phenomena observed within a particular research to be examined in detail from various perspectives. In our account here, we show how one case study helped uncover a range of learning opportunities that arise from pupils' participation in one school-based co-curricular…

People who can provide or deny access to research participants are known as 'gatekeepers'. In my 30 years as a researcher, I have learned that gatekeepers have a variety of motivations and strategies to block (or facilitate) research. This case describes several research projects where gatekeepers have played a pivotal role, and what I have…

This case study exemplifies an experimental design to measure the effectiveness of a new educational approach compared to the conventional approach. The researchers were interested in the impacts that reading culturally responsive Young Adult novels might have on eighth grade students' reading comprehension. Students were randomly assigned to the…

The purpose of this single-subject study was to examine the effectiveness of video feedback in improving the job-related behaviors of twin adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and learning disabilities. The targeted behaviors included active engagement, decision-making, responding to others, hygiene, and transition making. A…

This case is based on our cross-cultural study of Israeli middle-class mothers' engagement in their children's education. The mothers in our study belong to three social-cultural groups: Palestinian Israeli, Russian immigrants, and Israeli-born Jewish. These three groups participate today in the Israeli middle class, albeit with different…

Open Air Laboratories is a citizen science project that provides environmental monitoring resources that can be used by schools for experiential learning to support the science curricula. This pilot research project aimed to use a self-completed online questionnaire to assess children's views of the value of Open Air Laboratories experiential…

Student-led tutorials were introduced at the Liverpool Hope Business School after some issues arising in the existing "teacher-led" model. It was felt that these tutorials were becoming just another form of mini-lectures, with the lecturers going through tutorial readings in class with minimal student participation and engagement. The…

Across the country, educators and leaders have adopted, adapted, created and implemented a broad range of technology supports to help deepen student-centered learning opportunities. To help Nellie Mae Education Foundation (the Foundation) best assist its grantees in effectively leveraging technology supports, it engaged Parthenon-EY to assess the…

Mediated conversations are an innovative method for the generation of rich qualitative data on complex issues such as researchers often face in education contexts. The method draws from the sociocultural paradigm, which highlights the role of "artefacts" and "audience" in mediating participants' actions and thoughts. Mediated…

This PhD research project involved working with parents, teachers, and children in two nursery classes. I was interested in finding out how individuals perceived the idea of parental involvement in their children's nursery education, with a view to improving practice in this area. In carrying out the research, I had to think carefully about…