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Adam B. Wilson; William S. Brooks; Danielle N. Edwards; Jill Deaver; Jessica A. Surd; Obadiah J. Pirlo; William A. Byrd; Edgar R. Meyer; Amy Beresheim; Stephanie L. Cuskey; Jack G. Tsintolas; Eric S. Norrell; Harriet C. Fisher; Christopher W. Skaggs; Dmytro Mysak; Samantha R. Levin; Carlos E. Escutia Rosas; Andrew S. Cale; Md Nazmul Karim; Jenna Pollock; Nicholas J. Kakos; Monica S. O'Brien; Rebecca S. Lufler – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Growth in the online survey market may be increasing response burden and possibly jeopardizing higher response rates. This meta-analysis evaluated survey trends over one decade (2011-2020) to determine: (1) changes in survey publication rates over time, (2) changes in response rates over time, (3) typical response rates within health sciences…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Health Sciences, Educational Research
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Warren, John Robert – AERA Open, 2015
The National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) longitudinal student surveys have long been exceptionally useful for many purpose. Despite their many virtues, however, these surveys cannot be used to monitor trends at short time intervals, they do not allow for flexible changes to survey content, they cannot generally be used to infer policy…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Longitudinal Studies, Student Surveys, Federal Government
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Nabaho, Lazarus; Turyasingura, Wilberforce – Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2019
Quality assurance of African higher education is at the top of the region's development agenda. Prompted by the imperative to enhance the quality of higher education, the Africa Union Commission is implementing the African Quality Rating Mechanism (AQRM). The AQRM is a continental tool that affords higher education institutions an opportunity to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Educational Quality
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Manly, Catherine A.; Wells, Ryan S. – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Higher education researchers using survey data often face decisions about handling missing data. Multiple imputation (MI) is considered by many statisticians to be the most appropriate technique for addressing missing data in many circumstances. In particular, it has been shown to be preferable to listwise deletion, which has historically been a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Surveys, Data
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Elaine Chiu – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Observation Studies, Unmeasured Confounding, and Sensitivity Analysis: An important part of educational research is identifying important, potentially causal, factors that influence children's learning from observational studies. However, it is well-known that discovering such factors from observational studies can be biased due to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Attribution Theory, Learning Processes
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Huber, Stephan Gerhard; Helm, Christoph – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2020
The crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus has far-reaching effects in the field of education, as schools were closed in March 2020 in many countries around the world. In this article, we present and discuss the School Barometer, a fast survey (in terms of reaction time, time to answer and dissemination time) that was conducted in Germany, Austria…
Descriptors: Disease Control, School Closing, Educational Policy, Surveys
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Wilcox, Bethany R.; Zwickl, Benjamin M.; Hobbs, Robert D.; Aiken, John M.; Welch, Nathan M.; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Research-based assessments represent a valuable tool for both instructors and researchers interested in improving undergraduate physics education. However, the historical model for disseminating and propagating conceptual and attitudinal assessments developed by the physics education research (PER) community has not resulted in widespread adoption…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Hannum, Emily; Liu, Ran; Alvarado-Urbina, Andrea – Comparative Education, 2017
Social scientists have conceptualised poverty in multiple ways, with measurement approaches that seek to identify absolute, relative, subjective, and multi-dimensional poverty. The concept of poverty is central in the comparative education field, but has been empirically elusive in many large, international educational surveys: these studies have…
Descriptors: Poverty, Research Methodology, Children, Educational Research
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Institute of Education Sciences, 2018
IES is the primary research, evaluation, and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education. Established through the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA), the Institute's mission is to expand fundamental knowledge and understanding of education and to provide education leaders and practitioners, parents and students, researchers, and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Grants, Financial Support, Institutional Mission
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Akar, Bassel – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
Large-scale quantitative studies on citizenship and citizenship education research have advanced an international and comparative field of democratic citizenship education. Their instruments, however, informed by theoretical variables constructed in Western Europe and North America mostly measure young people's understandings of a predefined…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizenship, Educational Research, Democratic Values
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Howieson, Cathy; Croxford, Linda – Journal of Education and Work, 2017
This paper considers the role of independent research in helping an education and training system "know itself", illustrating this through the experience of the Centre for Educational Sociology (CES) of which David Raffe was a member and director. It highlights the tensions in the research-policy relationship arising from the different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Policy Formation, Decision Making, Educational Sociology
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Weintraub, Sara C.; Curnalia, Rebecca M. L.; Manning, Jimmie; Reitzel, Armeda C.; Chastain, Melissa – Communication Education, 2016
The Learning Outcomes in Communication (LOC) grant project isolated and refined what communication majors should "know" and be able to "do." The LOC project was an opportunity to begin a conversation in the discipline about the breadth of personal and professional competencies taught in programs. The resulting LOCs are…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Communications, Majors (Students), Educational Research
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Lanvers, Ursula – Modern Language Journal, 2017
Britain's already poor record for language learning might be exacerbated by the Global English phenomenon, in that utilitarian reasons for learning languages other than English are increasingly undermined (Lanvers, 2014; Lo Bianco, 2014). This article offers a state-of-the-art review of UK research on second language (L2) learning motivation and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Models
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Crossley, Michael – Comparative Education, 2014
The international transfer of educational policy and practice has long been a key theme in comparative research and scholarship. Recent years have seen renewed attention to the processes of international policy transfer, with new understandings emerging from innovative theorising and analysis. This article examines the nature and implications of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Comparative Education, Educational Research, Technology Transfer
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Busher, Hugh; James, Nalita – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
Hybrid communities using online and face-to-face communications to construct their practices are increasingly part of everyday life amongst people who have easy access to the internet. Researching these communities raises a number of challenges for researchers in the pursuit of ethical research. The paper begins by exploring what is understood by…
Descriptors: Ethics, Research Methodology, Phenomenology, Educational Practices
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