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Bhoomi K. Thakore – Teaching Sociology, 2024
The research project assignment can create meaningful opportunities for students to apply sociological concepts. For grading these projects, assessment rubrics are useful pedagogical tools to evaluate students' abilities in achieving course learning objectives. In this study, I analyzed final research papers collected over multiple semesters in my…
Descriptors: Sociology, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students, Scoring Rubrics
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Zoellner, Kate; Hines, Samantha; Keenan, Teressa; Samson, Sue – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
Understanding faculty work practices can translate into improved library services. This study documents how education and behavioral science faculty locate, retrieve, and use information resources for research and writing and how they publish and store their research materials. The authors interviewed twelve professors using a structured interview…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Faculty Publishing, Educational Practices, Library Services
Fogle, Tiffany; Jones, Lawrence – Research for Action, 2006
For the past two and a half years, Research for Action (RFA) worked with student members of Youth United for Change (YUC) and Philadelphia Student Union (PSU). Over that time, these young people have committed themselves to learning social science research methods and conducted a study of their changing schools. Their motivation to be youth…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Urban Schools, Social Sciences, Research Skills
Belcher, Marcia J.; Baldwin, Anne – 1995
As a follow-up to 1985 and 1991 efforts to determine its own effectiveness in providing useful information to the college community, the Office of Institutional Research (OIR) at Florida's Miami-Dade Community College conducted a self-evaluation in 1994. Questionnaires were mailed to 296 department chairs, Board members, and other professionals…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges, Educational Research, Institutional Research