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Music Therapy with Autistic Children: A Multiple Case Study
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Pelayo, Jose Maria G., III; Sanchez, Celeste S. – Online Submission, 2013
The aim of the researchers was to determine if there are alternative methods in treating children with autism. Children diagnosed with autism are currently attending special schools with a different type of curriculum. Many methods have been used by psychologists and psychiatrists to treat children diagnosed with autism. Children with mental or…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Autism, Music Therapy, Case Studies
Qualitative Methods Can Enrich Quantitative Research on Occupational Stress: An Example from One Occupational Group
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Schonfeld, Irvin Sam; Farrell, Edwin – Online Submission, 2010
The chapter examines the ways in which qualitative and quantitative methods support each other in research on occupational stress. Qualitative methods include eliciting from workers unconstrained descriptions of work experiences, careful first-hand observations of the workplace, and participant-observers describing "from the inside" a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Quality of Working Life, Statistical Analysis, Research Methodology
Listen to Me! An Exploration of the Students' Voices Regarding Homework
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Landing-Corretjer, Gladys – Online Submission, 2009
Research on students' voices and perspectives regarding homework is absent from the literature. This qualitative case study explored the perspectives of 5th and 6th grade students and ten teachers' perceptions regarding homework completion. The literature review revealed 3 trends in homework, including support homework, support against homework,…
Descriptors: Homework, Critical Theory, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals)
Factors That Contribute to the Failure of Developmental Mathematics Courses
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Mekonnen, Adugna; Reznichenko, Nataliya – Online Submission, 2008
This qualitative case study considers factors such as difficulty of understanding mathematics and poor mathematics practicing strategy under academic factors and lack of family support under social factors as those that contribute to the failure. Many students entering community college have deficiencies in mathematics background and are required…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Academic Failure
Review of ESL K-12 Program: Implementation in Alberta. Final Report
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Online Submission, 2006
Factors that influence and predict academic success of ESL students were studied to assist the Ministry with decisions related to curriculum development, resource allocation, and support provision. The comprehensive nature of this study is unique in that it presents the state of affairs of K-12 ESL education in Alberta. Best practice information…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation, Elementary Secondary Education
Self-Enhancing and Self-Defeating Ego Goals in Mathematics Lessons: Relationships among Task and Avoidance Goals, Achievement, Self-Perceptions, Anxiety, and Motivation (A Scientific Educology)
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Skaalvik, Einar M. – Online Submission, 2002
Educology is the fund of knowledge about the educational process, which obviously occurs within and outside of schools. Educology includes, at the least, the fund of knowledge about past education (historical educology), about current states of affairs in education (scientific educology), about effective practices within education (praxiological…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Self Concept, Elementary School Students, Self Efficacy