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Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2024
Dr Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah's article, "The New Territory of Educational Research in TESOL/TEFL: What Novice Researchers Should Know", provides a comprehensive guide for novice researchers in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). It emphasises the importance of research…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Steve Klein; Cherise Moore – Career and Technical Education Research Network, 2021
With research as a guide, designing CTE programs that promote equity and help close the opportunity gap is achievable. This is the fifth in a series of six practitioner training modules developed as part of the Career & Technical Education (CTE) Research Network Lead. Designed for CTE practitioners and state agency staff, these modules are…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Research Utilization
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Chae, Nancy; Backer, Adrienne; Mullen, Patrick R.; Cakmak, Zeynep – Professional School Counseling, 2022
The purpose of this article is to provide a resource for school counselors to recognize key indicators of quality quantitative research and make informed decisions about incorporating scholarly works into school counseling practice and comprehensive program development. We describe quality indicators of quantitative research by walking readers…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Research Utilization, Decision Making, School Counseling
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Annie Irvine – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
Engaging with primary researchers during qualitative secondary analysis is a practice much recommended but rarely written about. In this article, I reflect on my experience of crossing an imagined boundary between the discrete textual dataset and its creators, of acknowledging and engaging with those researchers who invested in constructing the…
Descriptors: Researchers, Foreign Countries, Primary Sources, Research Methodology
Marjorie Cohen; Steve Klein; Cherise Moore – Career and Technical Education Research Network, 2020
As the education and workforce development community looks more and more to CTE to help ensure students are both college and career ready, understanding and using CTE data and research becomes increasingly important. This is the first in a series of six practitioner training modules developed as part of the Career & Technical Education (CTE)…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Units of Study, Data Use, Training Objectives
Marjorie Cohen; Steve Klein; Cherise Moore – Career and Technical Education Research Network, 2020
Continuous improvement, a structured process for using data and research to improve educational programming, is an important component in creating and maintaining successful CTE programs. For practitioners to engage in continuous improvement--and to use data and research to go beyond accountability--they need to maintain an effective data…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Data Use, Research Utilization
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Aguilar, Israel – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2017
This article reinforces the use of research for faculty who prepare K-12 educators and leaders for social justice. The author conceptualizes auto-ethnography as a form of professional development and maintains that faculty must first experience an internal revolution before they can expect to model it, especially in a Hispanic Serving Institution…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Research Utilization, Teaching Methods
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Kozleski, Elizabeth B. – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2017
This article offers a rationale for the contributions of qualitative research to evidence-based practice in special education. In it, I make the argument that qualitative research encompasses the ability to study significant problems of practice, engage with practitioners in the conduct of research studies, learn and change processes during a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Evidence Based Practice, Special Education, Research Methodology
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Bryk, Anthony S. – Educational Researcher, 2015
A chasm is growing between our rapidly rising aspirations for our educational systems and what schools can routinely accomplish. Education needs an improvement paradigm--one that recognizes the complexity of the work of education and the wide variability in outcomes that our systems currently produce. This article sketches out such a paradigm. It…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Theories, Problem Solving
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Schneider, Barbara – Educational Researcher, 2016
This essay briefly describes some of the early AERA presidents who were empiricists, several of them directors of research, and how their work connects with some of the issues of design, measurement, analysis, and interpretation today. Beginning with the first president of AERA, a number of presidents through the late 1940s are highlighted, as…
Descriptors: Presidents, Professional Associations, Educational Research, Administrator Attitudes
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Scheerens, Jaap – School Leadership & Management, 2013
The article "Getting lost in translation" by Harris, Chapman, Muijs and Reynolds addresses the engagement of policy-makers and educational practitioners with (the results of) educational effectiveness and improvement research. In this commentary the article is discussed from the perspectives of research utilisation, the solidity of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Effective Schools Research, Educational Quality, Theory Practice Relationship
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Lingard, Bob – Critical Studies in Education, 2013
Currently, when there is a lot of political talk about the need for "evidence-based policy", and when public policy seeks to calibrate research quality and impact, there is a pressing need to reconsider the relationships between education/al research and education policy. This article seeks to do this, beginning with considerations of the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Evidence, Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship
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Klehr, Mary – Theory Into Practice, 2012
This article discusses how the underlying assumptions and practices of teacher research position it as a distinct form of educational inquiry, and identifies qualitative methodology as a central influence on the work. A discussion of some of the common conceptualizations and processes of PK-12 teacher research, the complex yet continually changing…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Teacher Researchers, Ethics, Classroom Environment
Mertler, Craig A. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2011
Written for pre- and in-service educators, this "Third Edition" of Craig A. Mertler's "Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators" introduces the process of conducting one's own classroom- or school-based action research in conjunction with everyday instructional practices and activities. The text provides educators with the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Improvement, Research Methodology, Research Design
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Sallee, Margaret W.; Flood, Julee T. – Theory Into Practice, 2012
Too often, researchers get a bad name for engaging in inquiry that is inaccessible to the practitioner and policy communities who could most benefit from it. Although speaking to others in the scholarly community is important, researchers must also be able to translate their results into more accessible language for multiple audiences. This…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Educational Policy
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