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Michiel van Oudheusden; Tessa Roedema; Willemine Willems – Ethnography and Education, 2025
In this article, we reflect on our experiences with teaching ethnographic skills and sensibilities to MSc students at a Dutch university. Using methods such as (self)observation, journaling and reflection, we highlight dilemmas (conceptual, practical, ethical) faced by students when doing ethnographic fieldwork and dilemmas that emerged in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Ethnography, Research Methodology
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Bockenholt, Ulf; Van Der Heijden, Peter G. M. – Psychometrika, 2007
Randomized response (RR) is a well-known method for measuring sensitive behavior. Yet this method is not often applied because: (i) of its lower efficiency and the resulting need for larger sample sizes which make applications of RR costly; (ii) despite its privacy-protection mechanism the RR design may not be followed by every respondent; and…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Social Control, Item Response Theory, Research Problems
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van den Akker, Jan; Kuiper, Wilmad – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 1993
Describes a study that evaluated implementation of curriculum materials for secondary social studies in the Netherlands. The evaluation focused on individual teachers' actual use of these materials in their classrooms. A large discrepancy emerged between the curriculum developers' original intentions and the observed instructional processes.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Instructional Materials, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation
Lodewijks, J. G. L. C. – 1987
Educational policy research is discussed as it concerns the utilization and programming of research. Following a brief review of the development of the educational research system, Part 1 discusses the following utilization concerns: the gap between research and policymakers; the relationship of organizational setting to utilization (comparing…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Higher Education
Levelt, Peter – 1981
Part of a series of investigations undertaken at the University of Leiden by Dr. G. A. Kohnstamm to investigate how children process information from audiovisual media, particularly television, this literature review maps out the educational possibilities of television for children up to the age of 12. Research findings reviewed are concerned…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Comprehension
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Schuller, Tom; Jochems, Wim; Moos, Lejf; van Zanten, Agnes – European Educational Research Journal, 2006
The EERJ roundtable took as its point of departure the experience of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) in carrying out policy research. CERI has conducted four reviews of national educational research and development (in New Zealand, England, Mexico and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
Nisbet, John, Ed.; And Others – 1985
Nineteen articles on the status of the relationship among educational research, policy, and practice around the world are collected in the 1985 edition of the "World Yearbook of Education." Contributors address the development of national policies on educational research in countries in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Agency Role, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Policy