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Researching Success and Failure in Educational Careers Using the Documentary Method. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2
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Sabine Gerhartz-Reiter – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
In the research project which formed part of my PhD study, I dealt with the topic of inequity in education. My main interest was to find out how (formal) educational careers can be fostered even if the starting position within the system is one which makes a successful educational career very difficult. Despite the fact that in the Austrian…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Research Projects, Research Design, Data Collection
From Data through Coding toward Categorizing: Negotiating Data Analysis in Constructivist Grounded Theory. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2
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P. Janelle McFeetors – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This case study describes an experience of using constructivist grounded theory to analyze data. The project investigated how high school students improved their approaches to learning mathematics. Over 4 months, students participated in processes which supported their learning while simultaneously generating data, including interactive writing,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mathematics Education, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation
Examining Changes in Teaching Practices Using a Retrospective Case Study Approach. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2
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Jennifer L. Kobrin – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
In winter 2014, I came upon an opportunity to conduct a case study on a team of middle school math teachers who initiated a study group to examine how a set of learning progressions could help them with their planning, instruction, and assessment. Learning progressions are research-based hypotheses about how students develop more sophisticated…
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Communities of Practice
Single Subject Design in Educational Research: The Use of Effect Size Measures in Analysis and Interpretation. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1
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Maryellen Brunson McClain; Tiffany L. Otero; Jillian Haut; Rochelle B. Schatz – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
With growing popularity of single subject design as a method to evaluate the efficacy of interventions, it is important to ensure that the analyses of these methods are rigorous and reliable. The purpose of this case study is to discuss the measures used to evaluate the efficacy of interventions in single subject design studies in the fields of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Effect Size, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation
Acts of Inquiry in Qualitative Research
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Brizuela, Bárbara M., Ed.; Stewart, Julie Pearson, Ed.; Carrillo, Romina G., Ed.; Berger, Jennifer Garvey, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2000
In this volume, researchers, practitioners, participants, and scholars address the proliferation of methodologies, ethical and disciplinary concerns, and issues of equity and diversity such research raises from a wide variety of viewpoints. "Acts of Inquiry in Qualitative Research" also presents a broad assortment of articles by authors…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Research Methodology
Studying Children in Context: Theories, Methods, and Ethics.
Graue, M. Elizabeth; Walsh, Daniel J.; Ceglowski, Deborah; Dyson, Anne Hass; Fernie, David E.; Kantor, Rebecca; Leavitt, Robin Lynn; Miller, Peggy J.; Ting, Hsueh-Yin – 1998
Studying or finding out about children is exceptionally difficult--intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Physical, social, cognitive, and political distances between adult and the child make their relationship very different from the relationships among adults. This book explains the art and science of doing qualitative research involving…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Case Studies, Children, Context Effect