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Patricia Farrenkopf – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
Gifted students who were in a fifth-grade telescoped math class during the 2013-2014 school year participated in an in-person qualitative research study regarding their identity development. During the 2019-2020 school year, these same students, who were now juniors and seniors in high school, were contacted to participate in a follow-up study.…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Academically Gifted, Self Concept, Identification (Psychology)
Leah Wood – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
In my doctoral program, students are immersed in research from the onset. This study was my second-year team study, intended to provide me with experience designing and implementing single case design research. Building on a study from the previous year, I developed an idea to further examine methods for promoting listening comprehension for…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities, Inquiry, Research Design
Tamara Katschnig; Corinna Geppert – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This case study exemplifies the design of a formative evaluation project concerned with the implementation of a new school form in Austria. The purpose of this case study is to show how multiple methods were implemented in the research project NOESIS ("Niederösterreichische Schule in der Schulentwicklung"; Lower Austrian Middle School in…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries
Fisher, Doug; Frey, Nancy – Educational Leadership, 2015
Schools are awash in data, and teachers are being asked to gather data in a myriad of high-tech and low-tech ways. But gathering is not analyzing, and without analysis there is little reason to gather the data in the first place. Teachers need data-collection systems that lend themselves to rapid analysis and action. This article presents several…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Formative Evaluation, Video Technology
Patricia Anne DiCerbo; Keira Gebbie Ballantyne; Charlene Rivera – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
Why conduct education research? To answer questions that we have about our students, add to our knowledge of good teaching, and investigate new theories based on observations we have made in our classrooms, schools, or communities. This qualitative research methods case illustrates a study we undertook to better understand how teachers use close…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Literacy, Qualitative Research, Mixed Methods Research
Michael Wilson – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
The study reports on a small international qualitative research project on the implementation of national curriculum reform in Chinese middle schools, involving a team of eight researchers from the University of Leeds and two Chinese partnership institutions in Zhejiang and Beijing. Data were collected from six case study schools based on a…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Educational Change