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Labeling What Some Researchers Are Already Doing: Design Research Updated
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Norris, Cathie; Soloway, Elliot; Tan, Chun Ming; Looi, Chee-Kit; Wong, Lung Hsiang – Educational Technology, 2013
Increasingly, "research" is not being conducted in a separate group in an organization; rather, it is being integrated into the fabric of the organization. Google recently described such an integrated, "hybrid" model of software research that is characterized by cycles of short duration and small-scope activity that is ongoing…
Descriptors: Models, Design Preferences, Design, Educational Technology
An Inferential Evaluation Model
Sommers, Paul A. – Educational Technology, 1973
A description of an evaluation model which provides a standard method to be generalized in every evaluation setting. (HB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Models
A New Look at Organizational Theory in Education
Spitzer, Dean R. – Educational Technology, 1976
A conceptual model is developed in this article to aid in understanding the vast number of variables involved in the educational process. Only through the careful study of many of these variables and the interactions among them will we gain a needed understanding of the methods for increasing the effectiveness of the educational organization.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Individual Characteristics, Models, Organizational Development
Does Your Program Work? Strategies for Measuring Change.
Fortune, Jim C.; Hutson, Barbara A. – Educational Technology, 1983
Discusses the meaning of change, purposes and models for measuring it, matching models to purposes and types of data, and using more than one model to measure change. Twenty-one references are listed. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Change, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Literature Reviews
Why Pigeons?
Nevin, John A. – Educational Technology, 1993
Explains the use of pigeons in behavioral psychology research for modeling human behavior and discusses instructional objectives for humans. Topics addressed include the relationship between response rate and reinforcer rate; resistance to alternative reinforcement; choice and matching; and persistence and reinforcement. (Contains 11 references.)…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Educational Objectives, Models
A Unified Strategy for System-Wide Research and Evaluation
Webster, William J.; Schuhmacher, Clinton C. – Educational Technology, 1973
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation