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Satwicz, Tom; Stevens, Reed – International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 2008
This paper describes the use of quantities in video games by young people as part of a broader effort to understand thinking and learning across naturally occurring contexts of activity. Our approach to investigating the use of quantities in game play is ethnographic; we have followed eight children over a six-month period as they play their own…
Descriptors: Play, Video Games, Children, Interviews
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Franzak, Judith K. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2008
This article extends recent work on the consequences of literacy-learning reforms by complicating the notion of "policy." Through a qualitative study in one high school, I explored how policy in its many forms, including the ways it was perceived and misperceived, shaped the literacy learning experiences of marginalized adolescent readers.…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Policy Analysis, Literacy, Qualitative Research
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Murtagh, Lisa – Qualitative Report, 2007
This paper provides an account of the methodological approach of a study designed to address some fundamental questions relating to formative assessment. The paper reports on the use of a critically quasi-ethnographic approach and describes the practicalities of adopting such an approach. The validity of the study is also considered, reflecting on…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Research Methodology, Quasiexperimental Design, Ethnography
Martinez, Steven S.; And Others – 1981
A methodological approach to evaluation is presented. This model attempts to integrate quantitative and qualitative procedures in evaluating the effects of bilingual/bicultural Head Start programs on young children. The evaluation was intended to provide information on the following: (1) the extent to which the curriculum models, once implemented,…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Curriculum Evaluation
McInnis, Mac – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2000
Collecting outdoor adventurers' stories for research is best done using the naturalistic inquiry paradigm. This type of hypothesis-free investigation, used in the study of folklore, requires maintaining the normal storytelling context while meeting scholarly demands for reliability and validity. Choice of focus and site, the participant-observer…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Ethnography, Interviews, Naturalistic Observation
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Frade, Patricia A.; Washburn, Allyson – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2006
This paper discusses a formal study conducted in 2001 at Brigham Young University to determine the value of the library to the university community. Methods used to collect data for the study included an e-mail survey, usage statistics, naturalistic observations, and interviews. Two years after the study, the authors wondered if the conclusions of…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, College Students, Use Studies
Freund, Maxine B. – 1990
The report documents activities of the 3-year (1986-1989) Assessment as Intervention Project at George Washington University (District of Columbia). Major activities of the project included: data collection with 25 families of newborn at-risk premature infants, including assessment-intervention sessions at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of age; data…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Early Intervention, Evaluation Methods, Family Problems
Barritt, Loren; And Others – 1985
This monograph addresses the issues in phenomenology as applied to educational research. The first chapter discusses problems with the following traditional goals of scientific methodology when applied by social scientists to educational research: measurement, control, objectivity, generalizability, and prediction. The second chapter explains the…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry
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Westbrook, Lynn – Library & Information Science Research, 1994
Examines the basic tenets of qualitative, or naturalistic, research methods in terms of their grounding in social science and their value to library and information science research. Topics discussed include the research problems; data collection, including interviews; data analysis, including content analysis; theory development; and ensuring…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Data Analysis, Integrity, Interviews
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Kinnear, Heather; McWilliams, Sandra; Caul, Leslie – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2002
Presents an evaluation of the use of videoconferencing in learning and teaching in an undergraduate degree program for student teachers in the United Kingdom. Students observed naturalistic teaching practices in a primary school and results of interviews with students and teachers were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the videoconferencing…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Lee, Rebecca A.; Shute, J. C. M. – Evaluation Review, 1991
A naturalistic approach to evaluation is illustrated through the description of the evaluation of a small-scale agricultural project in a village in Mali, West Africa. The evaluation considered program impact as well as the quality of the conclusions drawn using the illuminative model of evaluation. (SLD)
Descriptors: African Culture, Agriculture, Developing Nations, Developmental Programs
Hunter, Roberta; Anthony, Glenda – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
Informed by theory and research in inquiry-based classrooms, this paper examines how classroom practices support students' understanding of decimals. Data from a six-month teaching experiment, based on the work of Moss and Case's (1999) use of percentages and metric measure as visible representations for students' emerging understanding of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Arithmetic, Mathematical Logic, Classroom Techniques
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Roman, Leslie G. – Educational Theory, 1993
Describes a field study in which the researcher developed a feminist materialist alternative to the subject object dualism in ethnography; critiques the discourse of naturalistic ethnography and presents various political and ethical implications for forms of feminist and critical theory and praxis. (GLR)
Descriptors: Ethnography, Feminism, Field Studies, High School Students
Cakmak, Sibel – 1989
An investigation is presented of a regular classroom teacher's socio-psycho-linguistic experiences with the non-English speaking children in her classroom. Audiotaped interviews were conducted with Mrs. Walters (pseudonym), a first grade teacher with a large number of foreign students in her classroom. In addition to interviewing the teacher, the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
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Howes, Carollee; Shivers, Eva M.; Ritchie, Sharon – Early Education and Development, 2004
We describe the process of relationship-based intervention and associated changes in children and teachers' relationships and behaviors within center-based child care and examine the circumstances under which changes were most likely to occur. The relationship-based intervention had three components: research partners in each participating…
Descriptors: Intervention, Classroom Environment, Participant Observation, Focus Groups
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