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Petersson, Jöran; Sayers, Judy; Andrews, Paul – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2023
Measures of association, which typically require pairwise data, are widespread in many aspects of educational research. However, due to the need to reduce their content to equal numbers of units of analysis, they are rarely found in the analysis of textbooks. In this paper, we present two methods for overcoming this limitation, one through the use…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, Content Analysis, Mathematics Education
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Eva Reimers – British Journal of Religious Education, 2025
Starting with the question of why there is so much religiously motivated resistance against compulsory sex education, this article explores and discusses entanglements of norms about sexuality, gender, and religion in education. Based on predominantly Swedish data, the aim of the paper is to offer perspectives on connections between religiosity…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Role of Religion, Resistance (Psychology), Compulsory Education
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Heikkilä, Mia; Schaeffer, Jennie Andersson – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2022
Preschool, understood as being both a physical and psychological environment, is, according to objectives in national curriculum, required to be inclusive for all those who attend it. Previous studies have identified the stereotypical norms of several everyday activities of preschools, including both interactions and premises. The aim of this…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Preschool Education, Data Analysis
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Singh, Mahua – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2021
In 2020, Year 12 students at John Curtin College of the Arts, were required to model COVID-19 data from five different countries in order to find correlations between daily infections and unemployment rates, in order to make future predictions. Work received from students demonstrated how the task successfully provided unique learning…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Mathematics Instruction, High School Students, Grade 12
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Zeynab (Artemis) Mohseni; Italo Masiello; Rafael M. Martins – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
There is a significant amount of data available about students and their learning activities in many educational systems today. However, these datasets are frequently spread across several different digital services, making it challenging to use them strategically. In addition, there are no established standards for collecting, processing,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Data, Individual Development, Learning Trajectories
Cecilia Mezzanotte; Claire Calvel – OECD Publishing, 2023
Calls for increased monitoring and evaluation of education policies and practices have not, so far, included widespread and consistent assessments of the inclusiveness of education settings. Measuring inclusion in education has proven to be a challenging exercise, due not only to the complexity and different uses of the concept, but also to its…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Inclusion, Educational Policy, Equal Education
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Koçak, Deniz; Türe, Hasan; Atan, Murat – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2019
Education is the core of the factors that improved people for a better lifestyle and increases the level of society' development. Quality education is one of the most vital goals of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) due to actualizing these factors. Using relational network data envelopment analysis (DEA), which have three interrelated…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Measurement, Data Analysis, Educational Quality
Mavi, Reza Kiani; Standing, Craig – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
Government regulations require businesses to improve their processes and products/services in a green and sustainable manner. For being environmentally friendly, businesses should invest more on eco-innovation practices. Firms eco-innovate to promote eco-efficiency and sustainability. This paper evaluates the eco-innovation performance of…
Descriptors: Innovation, Data Analysis, Conservation (Environment), Sustainability
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Thornberg, Robert – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
Research on school bullying has its roots in the field of developmental and educational psychology, and appeals to the need for a theoretical and methodological widening in order to grasp its ambiguity and complexity. The article draws on ethnographic fieldwork in which 144 pupils and seven teachers participated from seven school classes in three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Bullying, Developmental Psychology
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Andersson, Joacim; Öhman, Marie; Garrison, Jim – Sport, Education and Society, 2018
In this article, we investigate 'no touch policies' as a practical teacher concern that includes the body as a location, a source and a means in educational activity. We argue that to understand issues regarding physical touch within school practice we must conceive it as deeply associated with specific teaching techniques. Thus, the didactical…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Instruction, Caring
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Lockett, Nigel; Quesada-Pallarès, Carla; Williams-Middleton, Karen; Padilla-Meléndez, Antonio; Jack, Sarah – Industry and Higher Education, 2017
While entrepreneurship education increasingly uses various means to connect students to the "real world", the impact of social networking on learning remains underexplored. This qualitative study of student entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom and Sweden shows that their entrepreneurial journey becomes increasingly complex, requiring…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Networks, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education
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Agevall, Lena; Broberg, Pernilla; Umans, Timurs – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This paper explores whether and in what way "dual learning" can develop understanding of the relationship between structure/judgement and explores audit student's perceptions of the audit profession. The Work Integrated Learning (WIL) module, serving as a tool of enabling dual learning, represents the context for this exploration. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Accounting
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Schwieter, John W.; Ferreira, Aline; Miller, Paul Chamness – Intercultural Education, 2018
English-speaking learners of L2 Spanish who were taking part in a four-week study abroad program in Spain and Japanese-speaking learners of L2 English who were individually studying in year-long abroad experiences participated in the present study. Quantitative and qualitative data from language questionnaires and contact profiles along with…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning
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Tengberg, Michael – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2018
Reading comprehension is often treated as a multidimensional construct. In many reading tests, items are distributed over reading process categories to represent the subskills expected to constitute comprehension. This study explores (a) the extent to which specified subskills of reading comprehension tests are conceptually conceivable to…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension, Scores, Test Results
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Witmer, Hope; Johansson, Jonas – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2015
The purpose of this study is to identify if gender differences exist with respect to conviction of university students for academic dishonesty. To investigate this phenomenon, data from the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (SNAHE) and from disciplinary boards of several Swedish universities were evaluated from a gender perspective. To…
Descriptors: Ethics, Cheating, Gender Differences, Data Analysis
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