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Zita Lysaght; Michael O'Leary; Angela Mazzone; Conor Scully – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
Since 2018, colleagues from two research centers at Dublin City University have been collaborating to develop a measurement scale to assess individuals' ability to identify workplace bullying. Having agreed on an operational definition of the construct, an item pool of 26 workplace bullying scenarios, that is, short descriptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Vimala Judy Kamalodeen – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
This case study focuses on issues and dilemmas I faced when collecting data on a social networking site that enabled sociability, communication, and collaboration among teachers. To understand teacher online participation, I used an eclectic mixed-methods design with three phases to collect qualitative and quantitative data. This design allowed me…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Research Methodology, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication
Yvette R. Harris – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
The goal of this case study was to introduce students to ways to conduct research on parent child cognitive learning interactions. To this end, the case study begins with an overview of the theoretical and empirical work supporting the development of my research program on parent child cognitive learning interaction research and continues with a…
Descriptors: Student Research, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Sampling
Urban, Jennifer Brown; van Eeden-Moorefield, Bradley Matheus – APA Books, 2017
Designing your own study and writing your research proposal takes time, often more so than conducting the study. This practical, accessible guide walks you through the entire process. You will learn to identify and narrow your research topic, develop your research question, design your study, and choose appropriate sampling and measurement…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Student Research, Research Proposals, Research Design
Vaske, Jerry J. – Sagamore-Venture, 2019
Data collected from surveys can result in hundreds of variables and thousands of respondents. This implies that time and energy must be devoted to (a) carefully entering the data into a database, (b) running preliminary analyses to identify any problems (e.g., missing data, potential outliers), (c) checking the reliability and validity of the…
Descriptors: Surveys, Theories, Hypothesis Testing, Effect Size
Carmel Patterson – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
Accessing narrative oral history and phenomenological lifeworld experiences was significant for my doctoral research of teacher learning because I was able to explore individual post-reflection as story and the pre-reflective meaning on lifeworld in order to understand interconnections across experience. Education research predominately reports on…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Oral History, Reflection, Experienced Teachers
Tray J. Geiger; Margarita Pivovarova – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
In this case study, two members from a team of a tenured professor, an early career professor, and a doctoral student outline their experiences from conducting an online qualitative survey research study. The goal of the study was to seek the opinion of experts in the field of education, statistics, and economics about the use of value-added…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Online Surveys, Research Methodology, Expertise
Rachel Hewett – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
Since 2010, I have acted as the full-time researcher on a longitudinal qualitative study which has been following the transition experiences of more than 80 young people in the United Kingdom who have a visual impairment. When I first started working with these participants, they were aged 14-16 years, and I have now been working with them for 6…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Qualitative Research, Visual Impairments, Sampling
Meltzoff, Julian; Cooper, Harris – APA Books, 2017
Could the research you read be fundamentally flawed? Could critical defects in methodology slip by you undetected? To become informed consumers of research, students need to thoughtfully evaluate the research they read rather than accept it without question. This second edition of a classic text gives students the tools they need to apply critical…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Research Methodology, Evaluative Thinking, Critical Reading
Julianne Viola; Joseph McIntyre; Hunter Gehlbach – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
While few question the importance of teacher-student relationships, less is known regarding which aspects have the most impact on students. However, exploring these aspects requires distinct measures to assess the various domains of these relationships. Several years ago, we embarked on an endeavor to create a new survey instrument to measure…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Test Construction, Secondary School Students, Teacher Behavior
Tray J. Geiger – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
In this case study, I describe my experiences as a novice researcher in conducting focus groups with high school students to learn about their participation in a high school dropout prevention program. The dropout prevention program was a partnership among the high school, the local state university, and the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Program Evaluation, High School Students, High School Teachers
Wagemaker, Hans, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2020
Although International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement-pioneered international large-scale assessment (ILSA) of education is now a well-established science, non-practitioners and many users often substantially misunderstand how large-scale assessments are conducted, what questions and challenges they are designed to…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Comparative Analysis