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Viberg, Olga; Wasson, Barbara; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Many adult second and foreign language learners have insufficient opportunities to engage in language learning. However, their successful acquisition of a target language is critical for various reasons, including their fast integration in a host country and their smooth adaptation to new work or educational settings. This suggests that they need…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Lifelong Learning
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Mason, Miriam; Galloway, David; Joyce-Gibbons, Andrew – Educational & Child Psychology, 2018
Background: UK government policy views collaboration with outstanding schools as a way of helping apparently less successful schools to close the attainment gap. However, there has been little debate about criteria for defining a school's success or failure. Moreover it is unclear which aspects of outstanding schools could readily transfer to…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Nongovernmental Organizations
Luckin, Rosemary, Ed. – UCL IOE Press, 2018
The educational technology sector is growing fast, with schools, colleges and universities more than ever looking for the best ways to use technology in the classroom. At the same time, there is an increasing appetite for learning and teaching practices to be backed up by evidence. However, there are few resources that bring these two things…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Research
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Dubois, Cathy; Long, Lori – International Journal on E-Learning, 2012
E-learning researchers face considerable challenges in creating meaningful and generalizable studies due to the complex nature of this dynamic training medium. Our experience in conducting workplace e-learning research led us to create this guide for planning research on e-learning. We share the unanticipated complications we encountered in our…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Course Content, Instructional Design, Program Implementation
Lopez Flores, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Research has been conducted to identify and analyze how schools are determining that the activities of their Professional Learning Community (PLC) are directly tied to student achievement as there is currently a gap in the existing literature with regards to this topic. For the purpose of this study, a "successful" PLC was defined as one…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Meta Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Professional Development
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Conceição, Simone C.O.; Johaningsmeir, Sarah; Colby, Holly; Gordon, John – Adult Learning, 2014
This article describes an initiative to train lay people, predominantly parents of children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN), to teach "Bridge to Independence"--a care coordination curriculum--to other family caregivers of CYSHCN. Using a model based on Kirkpatrick and Kirkpatrick's levels of evaluation, the goal…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Family (Sociological Unit), Lay People, Training
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Test, David W.; Richter, Sharon; Knight, Victoria; Spooner, Fred – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2011
This comprehensive review of Social Story[TM} literature included (a) a descriptive review, (b) an analysis of research quality, and (c) a meta-analysis using percentage of nonoverlapping data. In the review, 28 studies were included; 18 were included in the meta-analysis. Descriptive results highlighted information on participants, dependent…
Descriptors: Research Design, Meta Analysis, Literature Reviews, Alignment (Education)
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Rogers, Paul; Whitney, Anne Elrod; Bright, Alison; Cabe, Rosemary; Dewar, Tim; Null, Suzie Y. – English Education, 2011
In this article, a group of inservice providers and beginning researchers describe their experiences in learning to conduct evaluation research on a long-term school-university partnership program. We offer the practical lessons we learned in how to undertake such a study, and we share the immediate and powerful effects that the process of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Program Evaluation, Teacher Researchers, College School Cooperation
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Valencia-Garcia, Rafael; Garcia-Sanchez, Francisco; Casado-Lumbreras, Cristina; Castellanos-Nieves, Dagoberto; Fernandez-Breis, Jesualdo Tomas – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2012
The advent of Web 2.0, also called the Social Web, has changed the way people interact with the Web. Assisted by the technologies associated with this new trend, users now play a much more active role as content providers. This Web paradigm shift has also changed how companies operate and interact with their employees, partners and customers. The…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Informal Education, Electronic Publishing, Semantics
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McGrath, Helen; O'Toole, Thomas – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: The main aim of this paper is to develop guidelines on the critical issues to consider in research design in an action research (AR) environment for SME network capability development. Design/methodology/approach: The issues in research design for AR studies are developed from the authors' experience in running learning sets but, in…
Descriptors: Research Design, Action Research, Research Methodology, Data Analysis
Farrington, Jeanne – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2011
Training transfer is a key concern for organizational stakeholders, training professionals, and researchers. Since Georgenson's (1982) article on transfer, his conversational gambit that only 10% of training transfers to performance on the job has been quoted often. This estimate suggests a low level of success with training programs in general,…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, On the Job Training, Context Effect, Job Performance
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Svensson, Lennart; Randle, Hanne; Bennich, Maria – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to argue that both the supply-based model and the demand-based form of vocational education and training (VET) have their limitations and propose a "third way" in which reflective learning in the workplace is a central ingredient. Design/methodology/approach: The data was collected from several…
Descriptors: Research Design, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
Lakkala, Minna; Paavola, Sami; Toikka, Seppo; Bauters, Merja; Markannen, Hannu; de Groot, Reuma; Ben Ami, Zvi; Baurens, Benoit; Jadin, Tanja; Richter, Christoph; Zoserl, Eva; Batatia, Hadj; Paralic, Jan; Babic, Frantisek; Damsa, Crina; Sins, Patrick; Moen, Anne; Norenes, Svein Olav; Bugnon, Alexandra; Karlgren, Klas; Kotzinons, Dimitris – Online Submission, 2008
One of the central goals of the KP-Lab project is to co-design pedagogical methods and technologies for knowledge creation and practice transformation in an integrative and reciprocal manner. In order to facilitate this process user tasks, driving objectives and high-level requirements have been introduced as conceptual tools to mediate between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Programming, Computer System Design, Educational Technology
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Lee, Eunjung; Mishna, Faye; Brennenstuhl, Sarah – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
The purpose of this article is to develop guidelines to assist practitioners and researchers in evaluating and developing rigorous case studies. The main concern in evaluating a case study is to accurately assess its quality and ultimately to offer clients social work interventions informed by the best available evidence. To assess the quality of…
Descriptors: Research Design, Program Evaluation, Guidelines, Data Analysis
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Webster, Collin A. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2010
Background: Research indicates expert and novice teachers communicate differently during instruction. However, these differences have yet to be investigated in relation to student learning. Receiver selectivity theory offers an interpretive framework for understanding how expert-novice communication differences might function to discriminate…
Descriptors: Research Design, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Telecommunications
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