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Scale Development: Identifying and Addressing Potential Validity Threats Linked with Online Piloting Using Paid-For Samples. Sage Research Methods: Doing Research Online
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Zita Lysaght; Michael O'Leary; Angela Mazzone; Conor Scully – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
Since 2018, colleagues from two research centers at Dublin City University have been collaborating to develop a measurement scale to assess individuals' ability to identify workplace bullying. Having agreed on an operational definition of the construct, an item pool of 26 workplace bullying scenarios, that is, short descriptions of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Building the Plane in Flight: Establishing Post Hoc Inter-Rater Reliability Coefficients in an Educational Context. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2
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Albert M. Jimenez; Sally J. Zepeda – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
The work presented in this case study results from a study conducted in 2012-2014 examining a newly created teacher evaluation system to determine the inter-rater reliability of the classroom observation instrument. The teacher evaluation system was the result of a partnership between the school district and the university in the same city…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Interrater Reliability, Teacher Evaluation, Observation
Using Focus Groups in Early Childhood Research. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2
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Debbie Jensen – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
This report considers the use of a focus group as a data collection tool in early childhood research. The report outlines one researcher's experience, analyzing the difficulties of gaining meaningful data during focused group discussions, considering in some depth the impacts of careful management on the validity of the findings, providing…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Early Childhood Education, Focus Groups, Research Methodology
Meta-Analysis: Effects of on Children's Learning in 15 Countries. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1
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Marie-Louise Mares; Zhongdang Pan – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
Staff members at Sesame Workshop asked us to conduct a meta-analysis of their proprietary evaluation research on the effects of viewing international versions of "Sesame Street." Given global crises in early childhood education, and given the wide reach of "Sesame Street," it was of considerable interest to us whether there…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Children, Educational Television, Case Studies
The Capability Approach and Early Childhood Education Curricula: An Investigation into Teachers' Beliefs and Practices. Arbeit, Bildung & Gesellschaft/Labour, Education & Society. Volume 35
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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
Psychological Testing of American Minorities: Issues and Consequences.
Samuda, Ronald J. – 1975
Not intended to be a technical piece of work in the sense of psychometric innovation, this volume presents a synthesis and summary of over four hundred highly selected reference sources. The objective is to present a gestalt of the perspectives, pitfalls, fallacies, issues, consequences, and trends in the use of standardized norm-referenced tests…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Policy, Environmental Influences, Ethnic Groups