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Demes, Kyle W.; Murphy, Gail C.; Burt, Helen M. – Journal of Research Administration, 2019
Over the last decade, a wealth of empirical evidence has accumulated describing the merits of team-based, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research, including: increased productivity among researchers, greater citation impact, increased multi-sector engagement, and the generation of novel solutions to grand challenges. Funding agencies have…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Theobald, Elli – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
Discipline-based education researchers have a natural laboratory--classrooms, programs, colleges, and universities. Studies that administer treatments to multiple sections, in multiple years, or at multiple institutions are particularly compelling for two reasons: first, the sample sizes increase, and second, the implementation of the treatments…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Program Implementation, Predictor Variables
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Lohr, Sharon; Schochet, Peter Z.; Sanders, Elizabeth – National Center for Education Research, 2014
Suppose an education researcher wants to test the impact of a high school drop-out prevention intervention in which at-risk students attend classes to receive intensive summer school instruction. The district will allow the researcher to randomly assign students to the treatment classes or to the control group. Half of the students (the treatment…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Design, Data Analysis, Intervention
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McCoach, D. Betsy – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2010
In education, most naturally occurring data are clustered within contexts. Students are clustered within classrooms, classrooms are clustered within schools, and schools are clustered within districts. When people are clustered within naturally occurring organizational units such as schools, classrooms, or districts, the responses of people from…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Causal Models, Academically Gifted, Educational Research
Clarke, Suzanne – Educational Research Service, 2008
Today's classrooms increasingly challenge teachers to address a diverse range of backgrounds, abilities, and learning needs. As teachers rise to the challenge, grouping can be a valuable instructional tool to address varying ability levels and learning needs within the classroom. At present, there is a good deal of support in the literature for…
Descriptors: Evidence, Classroom Techniques, Ability Grouping, Heterogeneous Grouping