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Prathiba Natesan Batley; Erica B. McClure; Brandy Brewer; Ateka A. Contractor; Nicholas John Batley; Larry Vernon Hedges; Stephanie Chin – Grantee Submission, 2023
N-of-1 trials, a special case of Single Case Experimental Designs (SCEDs), are prominent in clinical medical research and specifically psychiatry due to the growing significance of precision/personalized medicine. It is imperative that these clinical trials be conducted, and their data analyzed, using the highest standards to guard against threats…
Descriptors: Medical Research, Research Design, Data Analysis, Effect Size
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Pardo-Guerra, Juan Pablo; Pahwa, Prithviraj – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
This paper considers the adoption of computational techniques within research designs modeled after the extended case method. Echoing calls to augment the power of contemporary researchers through the adoption of computational text analysis methods, we offer a framework for thinking about how such techniques can be integrated into…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Research Design, Marketing, Social Science Research
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Guth, Lorraine J.; Asner-Self, Kimberly K. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2017
This article offers 10 guidelines for conducting international group work research. These guidelines include the importance of establishing relationships, conducting a needs assessment, co-constructing the research questions/design, determining the approach, choosing culturally relevant instruments, choosing culturally responsive group…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Group Activities, Research, Guidelines
Mertler, Craig A. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2011
Written for pre- and in-service educators, this "Third Edition" of Craig A. Mertler's "Action Research: Improving Schools and Empowering Educators" introduces the process of conducting one's own classroom- or school-based action research in conjunction with everyday instructional practices and activities. The text provides educators with the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Improvement, Research Methodology, Research Design
Aldiabat, Khaldoun; Le Navenec, Carol-Lynne – Online Submission, 2011
There is confusion among graduate students about how to select the qualitative methodology that best fits their research question. Often this confusion arises in regard to making a choice between a grounded theory methodology and an ethnographic methodology. This difficulty may stem from the fact that these students do not have a clear…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Grounded Theory, Research Methodology, Qualitative Research
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McGrath, Helen; O'Toole, Thomas – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: The main aim of this paper is to develop guidelines on the critical issues to consider in research design in an action research (AR) environment for SME network capability development. Design/methodology/approach: The issues in research design for AR studies are developed from the authors' experience in running learning sets but, in…
Descriptors: Research Design, Action Research, Research Methodology, Data Analysis
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Lee, Eunjung; Mishna, Faye; Brennenstuhl, Sarah – Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
The purpose of this article is to develop guidelines to assist practitioners and researchers in evaluating and developing rigorous case studies. The main concern in evaluating a case study is to accurately assess its quality and ultimately to offer clients social work interventions informed by the best available evidence. To assess the quality of…
Descriptors: Research Design, Program Evaluation, Guidelines, Data Analysis
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Volkwein, J. Fredericks – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
In this chapter, the author proposes a model for assessing institutional effectiveness. The Volkwein model for assessing institutional effectiveness consists of five parts that summarize the steps for assessing institutions, programs, faculty, and students. The first step in the model distinguishes the dual purposes of institutional effectiveness:…
Descriptors: Institutional Evaluation, Models, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Criteria
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Volkwein, J. Fredericks – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
Evaluative statements from alumni have legitimacy with both internal and external stakeholders. Thus, alumni studies can provide valuable evidence of institutional effectiveness and lend themselves to both locally designed and commercial survey instruments for data collection. Under ideal conditions, the results of alumni studies equip faculty and…
Descriptors: Research Design, Institutional Research, Institutional Evaluation, Alumni
Alvir, Howard P. – 1975
A research design is used to find out how effective a given piece of research has been. This short course in the fundamentals of research design is intended to bring together a few typical examples and a few generally accepted principles of research in a practical kit. After a brief introduction on how to progress from data that is uncountable to…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Research Design
Greene, Jennifer C. – 1985
The naturalistic research perspective assumes that reality is multiplistic, phenomenological, and context-dependent. This perspective legitimizes the subjective insights of the investigator by acknowledging the interdependence of facts and values as well as of the investigator and the object of investigation. Although discrepancies between…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Analysis, Guidelines, Program Evaluation
Drott, M. Carl – School Library Media Quarterly, 1984
Describes elements to look for when reading four identifiable sections of a research report: background and literature review, methodology and procedures, analysis, findings or summary. Literature review as prologue to author's argument, choices in design of a study, research participants, choices involved in analysis, and implications of findings…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Data Analysis, Guidelines, Literature Reviews
Greever, Kathryn B.; And Others – 1974
This manual is designed to aid the user in measuring consumer satisfaction with vocational rehabilitation services. The manual contains materials which were used by the West Virginia Research and Training Center in a followup study. Step-by-step guidelines are provided for assessing the effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation services by…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Followup Studies, Guidelines, Program Evaluation
Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2006
This report from the Charter School Achievement Consensus Panel, a group of nine researchers convened by the National Charter School Research Project, examines the existing research on student achievement in charter schools and details how future research could be improved. The panel reviewed and rated more than 40 evaluations of charter school…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Academic Achievement, Charter Schools, Research Methodology
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Breen, Rosanna L. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2006
This article guides readers through the decisions and considerations involved in conducting focus-group research investigations into students' learning experiences. One previously published focus-group study is used as an illustrative example, along with other examples from the field of pedagogic research in geography higher education. An approach…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Educational Research, Geography, Higher Education
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