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Eva Mikuska – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
The aim of this case study is to highlight the importance of piloting or pre-testing the research design (in this case, semi-structured interviews and narratives). Most textbooks offer minimal guidance about pre-testing the research design, and published reports rarely report whether the research was piloted and, if so, what were the results.…
Descriptors: Semi Structured Interviews, Research Methodology, Personal Narratives, Pilot Projects
Myra C. Y. Lee – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2018
The research design of a study involves continual refinement through experiential processes. This case study demonstrates the importance to novice researchers of conducting a pilot study to test the feasibility of the study's research design and practice data collection (in this instance, interviewing skills). The case study is based on an…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Doctoral Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students
Edward Hind – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
Citizen science is a relatively young research field. Having 'discovered' it in a conference workshop, I thought it might be the answer to solving a problem I had encountered during my PhD studies -- how to scale-up efforts to record valuable experiential knowledge. I planned to train citizen scientists to conduct qualitative semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Citizen Participation, Scientific Research
Jeff Bloggs – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
Although I am an economic geographer trained in the United States, most of my research has been conducted in Germany or Canada. Thus, I developed my disciplinary schema in a context different from the one where I now use it. This US-focused training taught me that before one examines the local dynamics of a particular industry, labor market, or…
Descriptors: Data Use, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Trend Analysis
Potsi, Autoanneta – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016
This book explores the Capability Approach (CA) as an alternative critical lens through which to regard early childhood education (ECE) curricula. The CA framework is a counter narrative to the narrow instrumentalism that reduces education to a mere process of academic skills acquisition for a future workplace. Primarily the book draws on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Ability, Curriculum Design
Litwin, Mark S. – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods