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Burkholder, Leslie – Theory and Research in Education, 2021
Does the moral requirement that medical research comparing the effectiveness of two treatment methods be done only when there is community level equipoise also apply to research in teaching and learning comparing the effectiveness of two instructional methods? This article argues that it does. It evaluates three claims that the requirement does…
Descriptors: Ethics, Moral Values, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
Elaine Chiu – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Observation Studies, Unmeasured Confounding, and Sensitivity Analysis: An important part of educational research is identifying important, potentially causal, factors that influence children's learning from observational studies. However, it is well-known that discovering such factors from observational studies can be biased due to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Attribution Theory, Learning Processes
Håkansson, Jan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2015
With a basis in conclusions from a comparative meta-synthesis of teaching and learning, the question of structured and teacher-led teaching in Swedish comprehensive schools is discussed and analysed. The aim is to illustrate the development of results and changes in teaching patterns in Swedish comprehensive schools in relation to new regulations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods
McCloughlin, Thomas J. J.; Matthews, Philip S. C. – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2017
This work discusses repertory grid analysis as a tool for investigating the structures of students' representations of biological concepts. Repertory grid analysis provides the researcher with a variety of techniques that are not associated with standard methods of concept mapping for investigating conceptual structures. It can provide valuable…
Descriptors: Biology, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Concept Mapping
Díaz-Lázaro, José Javier; Fernández, Isabel M. Solano; del Mar Sánchez Vera, María – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2017
The concept of Learning Analytics, as we understand it today, is relatively new but the practice of evaluating user behavior is not innovative. For years, technological development, along with other educational aspects, have encouraged, developed and facilitated this practice as a way of providing a personalized quality experience to students. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Cooperative Learning, Electronic Learning
Ayan, Erdal; Demirel, Elif – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2017
Owing to new advances in language teaching methodologies and integration of high technology tools as well as web applications, much scientific research has been recently published on English language teaching (ELT) and learning (ELL). Yet it is still a significant question to investigate exactly what types of research topics are mostly studied…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Technology Integration
Engberg, Mark E.; Jourian, T. J.; Davidson, Lisa M. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
This study examines the mediating role of intercultural wonderment in relation to students' development of a global perspective. We utilize both confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to validate the intercultural wonderment construct and test the direct and indirect effects of the structural pathways in the model,…
Descriptors: Role, Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness, Experiential Learning
Bove, Chiara; Jensen, Bente; Wyslowska, Olga; Iannone, Rosa Lisa; Mantovani, Susanna; Karwowska-Struczyk, Malgorzata – European Journal of Education, 2018
This article offers insights into what characterises innovative continuous professional development (CPD) in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) by analysing similarities and differences from case studies of exemplary approaches to innovative CPD in Denmark, Italy and Poland. The comparative analysis focuses on four features…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Professional Continuing Education, Institutional Cooperation, Early Childhood Education
Kimmerle, Joachim; Moskaliuk, Johannes; Oeberst, Aileen; Cress, Ulrike – Educational Psychologist, 2015
Social media are increasingly being used for educational purposes. The first part of this article briefly reviews literature that reports on educational applications of social media tools. The second part discusses theories that may provide a basis for analyzing the processes that are relevant for individual learning and collective knowledge…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Social Systems, Social Networks, Instructional Design
Roth, Wolff-Michael – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
Research on learning science in informal settings and the formal (sometimes experimental) study of learning in classrooms or psychological laboratories tend to be separate domains, even drawing on different theories and methods. These differences make it difficult to compare knowing and learning observed in one paradigm/context with those observed…
Descriptors: Science Education, Informal Education, Educational Research, Comparative Analysis
Jääskelä, Päivikki; Nissilä, Pia – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The high value accorded to the research-based development of education in higher education communities means that researchers in the field have an important role in determining the foci of such efforts. However, it is important to ask whether higher education research is providing answers that satisfy practical educational needs. In this study,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, Role
Huisman, Jeroen, Ed.; Tight, Malcolm, Ed. – International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2014
Higher education research is a developing field internationally, attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions. As such, it is an arena within which a wide range of theories, methods, and methodologies are being applied. As an expanding multidisciplinary area…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Educational Theories, Interdisciplinary Approach
Bailey, Lora Battle – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2014
Although a plethora of research focuses on economically at-risk preschool children in general across the United States, little can be found that investigates methods for improving rural children's academic outcomes. This review of research is intended to provide a contextual understanding of the background and current conditions that exist…
Descriptors: State Standards, School Readiness, Rural Schools, Academic Achievement
Lobato, Joanne – Educational Psychologist, 2012
Although any mainstream thought is subject to theoretical challenges, the challenges to the mainstream cognitive perspective on transfer have had an unfortunate divisive effect. This article takes a pragmatic view that transfer perspectives are simply designed objects (Plomp & Nieveen, 2007), which provide different information for different…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Transfer of Training, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Daniels, Lia M.; Stupnisky, Robert H. – Internet and Higher Education, 2012
This commentary investigates the extent to which the control-value theory of emotions (Pekrun, 2006) is applicable in online learning environments. Four empirical studies in this special issue of "The Internet and Higher Education" explicitly used the control-value theory as their theoretical framework and several others have components of the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Web Based Instruction, Psychological Patterns