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Using Video Surveillance Footage to Support Validity of Self-Reported Classroom Data
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Lee, Dabae; Arthur, Ian T.; Morrone, Anastasia S. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2017
The use of video surveillance footage presents a new possibility in educational research as a reliable and valid source of learning and teaching activities in classrooms. However, the unique nature of surveillance footage requires different approaches and poses distinctive challenges in utilizing it in research, yet no methodological guides are…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Validity, Educational Research, Classroom Research
Reconciling Rigour and Impact by Collaborative Research Design: Study of Teacher Agency
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Pantic, Nataša – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2017
This paper illustrates a new way of working collaboratively on the development of a methodology for studying teacher agency for social justice. Increasing emphasis of impact on change as a purpose of social research raises questions about appropriate research designs. Large-scale quantitative research framed within externally set parameters has…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Research Design, Teacher Empowerment, Social Justice
Iranian English Language Teachers' Views of Research: Implications for Policy and Practice
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Sadeghi, Karim; Abutorabi, Parviz – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2017
Understanding teachers' conceptions of research is fundamental to creating opportunities for teachers to be research-engaged and to take a more leading role in policy and curriculum development. This study investigated the views of Iranian English language teachers towards research by examining their conceptions of what research is, how often they…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Ashford Teaching Alliance Research Champion: Evaluation Report and Executive Summary
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Griggs, Julia; Speight, Svetlana; Farias, Javiera Cartagena – Education Endowment Foundation, 2016
The Ashford Teaching Alliance (ATA) Research Champion project ("the programme") was a pilot intervention aimed at developing teaching expertise and practice by promoting the use of educational research in decision-making and teacher practice. The programme ran for one academic year (2014/2015) in five schools within the ATA. Delivery was…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Decision Making, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice
Growing a Waldorf-Inspired Approach in a Public School District
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Friedlaender, Diane; Beckham, Kyle; Zheng, Xinhua; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, 2015
This report documents the practices and outcomes of Alice Birney, a public K-8 Waldorf-Inspired School in Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD). This study highlights how such a school addresses students' academic, social, emotional, physical, and creative development. Birney students outperform similar students in SCUSD on several…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Educational Research
Baldrige Educational Quality Criteria as Another Model for Accreditation in American Community Colleges.
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Faulkner, Jane B. – 2002
Institutional accreditation is a voluntary, non-governmental activity administered by the eight postsecondary accrediting institutions that are part of the six regional associations that serve colleges and universities in the United States. The author cites W. Edwards Deming's work on corporate quality improvement, and its applicability to…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Community Colleges, Educational Research, Institutional Administration