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Wijermans, Nanda; Schill, Caroline; Lindahl, Therese; Schlüter, Maja – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
Understanding complex (social) phenomena benefits from combining different tools, perspectives, expertise, and experiences. Research designs that combine approaches are gaining in popularity. Carrying out research in interdisciplinary teams, however, is a challenging, high-investment activity. Unawareness of and reflecting on conflicting ways of…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Cooperation, Research Design
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Heikkilä, Mia; Schaeffer, Jennie Andersson – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2022
Preschool, understood as being both a physical and psychological environment, is, according to objectives in national curriculum, required to be inclusive for all those who attend it. Previous studies have identified the stereotypical norms of several everyday activities of preschools, including both interactions and premises. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Preschool Education, Data Analysis
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Lithner, Johan – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2017
The design research programme learning by imitative and creative reasoning (LICR) studies whether, how and why tasks and teaching that enhance creative reasoning lead to a more productive struggle and more efficient learning than the common but inefficient task designs based on imitating given solution procedures. The purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Mathematics Activities, Educational Principles, Task Analysis
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Hoelscher, Michael – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2017
This article argues that strong interrelations between methodological and theoretical advances exist. Progress in, especially comparative, methods may have important impacts on theory evaluation. By using the example of the "Varieties of Capitalism" approach and an international comparison of higher education systems, it can be shown…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Comparative Education, Research Methodology, Cross Cultural Studies
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Booth, Shirley – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
In this article, the author comments on two highly cited articles and how they link to wider trends in higher education research. The two papers in question, Angela Brew's article from 2003, "Teaching and research: New relationships and their implications for inquiry-based teaching and learning in higher education" and Gerlese Akerlind's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Research, Models
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Lundh, Anna – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2010
Introduction: The concept of information needs is significant within the field of Information Needs Seeking and Use. "How" information needs can be studied empirically is however something that has been called into question. The main aim of this paper is to explore the methodological consequences of discursively oriented theories when…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Seeking, Theories, Models
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Hesse-Biber, Sharlene – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2012
This article explores the deployment of triangulation in the service of uncovering subjugated knowledge and promoting social change for women and other oppressed groups. Feminist approaches to mixed methods praxis create a tight link between the research problem and the research design. An analysis of selected case studies of feminist praxis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Mixed Methods Research, Feminism
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Kira, Mari – International Journal of Training and Development, 2007
By combining a positivistic and an interpretive approach, this research investigates the learning opportunities that contemporary industrial work processes and workplaces offer for employees individually and collectively. The research explores how employees can become trained through their work and how individual development may expand to…
Descriptors: Employees, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Englund, Tomas – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2006
What new tendencies can be made out in Swedish educational research in the last three decades? Briefly, the following developments are described: In the 1970s, a long-prevailing emphasis on quantitative research was challenged by a number of different qualitative methods. Traditional sociology of education, meanwhile, was challenged by the new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Educational Sociology
Wedman, Ingemar – School Research Newsletter, 1985
Described in this newsletter issue are research activities involving the development in Sweden of an indicator model to provide a holistic and comprehensive depiction of schools. Intended for use in continuous follow-up and evaluation activities, the model attempts to mirror the situation in schools by means of existing information expressed as…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Followup Studies
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Aberg-Bengtsson, Lisbeth; Erickson, Gudrun – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
The research project presented in this article was set in the Swedish school context and carried out on a set of compulsory national tests for English, Swedish, and mathematics used at the end of compulsory school. The aims were: (a) to gain a deeper knowledge of the internal structure of the tests and (b) to separate individual performance from…
Descriptors: Individual Testing, Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries
Kansanen, Pertti, Ed. – 1993
This research report presents five papers offering Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Australian views of educational issues. The first paper, "Nursery School Leadership--A Forgotten Leadership" (Margareth Drakenberg), discusses societal changes in Sweden, characteristics of Swedish Child Care Service, literature on leadership styles and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Faculty, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Larsson, Staffan – Instructional Science, 1983
Presents findings from an inquiry into teachers' conceptions of teaching, including their descriptions of their conceptions, meaning of teaching, and reasoning about acting according to their views. Three qualitatively different kinds of relations between students and teachers which may affect a teacher's style are described and interpreted (15…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Communication, Foreign Countries, Locus of Control
Stangvik, Gunnar – 1976
The purpose of this paper is to improve knowledge of the interaction between the learner, the teaching arrangement, and the content. For practical purposes the combination of the teaching arrangement and the content has been called the task, as these cannot successfully be treated separately in the teaching-learning process. Through analysis of…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Course Content, Educational Research, Interaction Process Analysis
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Wessels, Holger; Lamb, Michael E.; Hwang, Carl-Philip – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1996
Illustrates problems facing researchers trying to demonstrate causal relationships between types of nonparental care and differences between groups of Swedish children. Argues that efforts must be made to validate and interpret differences that are found. Indicates ways to avoid misinterpretation of differences that are attributable to…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Child Development, Day Care, Educational Assessment
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