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Jonas Videbaek Jørgensen – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2024
Background: Understanding knowledge utilisation in policymaking is a core task for the social and political sciences. However, limitations and biases abound in commonplace approaches to measuring such use. Consequently, we have little systematic evidence of the extent to which knowledge sources are used in policy decisions. Aims and objectives:…
Descriptors: Research Utilization, Policy Formation, Measurement, Content Analysis
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Talbott, Elizabeth; Maggin, Daniel M.; Van Acker, Eryn Y.; Kumm, Skip – Exceptionality, 2018
Reviews of research in special education have a unique place in the scientific literature, with the potential to inform a broad audience about the effectiveness and acceptability of assessment and intervention strategies for a heterogeneous group of children and youth. Results from reviews are useful to school leaders, practitioners, parents,…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Research, Educational Quality, Educational Indicators
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Wahesh, Edward; Likis-Werle, S. Elizabeth; Moro, Regina R. – Professional Counselor, 2017
This content analysis includes 210 articles that focused on addictions topics published between January 2005 and December 2014 in the journals of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), Chi Sigma Iota (CSI), the American Counseling Association (ACA), and ACA member divisions. Results include the types of addictions content and…
Descriptors: Addictive Behavior, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Content Analysis
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Spring, Kristian J.; Graham, Charles R. – Online Learning, 2017
The goal of this research was to discover and compare themes of the top blended learning (BL) articles from seven different regions of the world. Top cited articles in BL from these regions show strong similarities in research processes, practice, terminology, and focus. Small differences are apparent among the regions and top articles in general,…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries
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Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Frels, Rebecca K.; Hwang, Eunjin – Journal of Educational Issues, 2016
Onwuegbuzie and Frels (2014) provided a step-by-step guide illustrating how discourse analysis can be used to analyze literature. However, more works of this type are needed to address the way that counselor researchers conduct literature reviews. Therefore, we present a typology for coding and analyzing information extracted for literature…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Discourse Analysis, Coding, Computer Software
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Mahdi, Hassan Saleh – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2018
Mobile devices are considered as the most widely used information and communication technologies. They have provided great advantages in language learning. This study reports a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of using mobile devices on vocabulary learning. A meta-analysis was conducted on research that compared the outcomes from students…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology
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Zimmerman, Kathleen N.; Ledford, Jennifer R. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2017
Social narratives (e.g., Social Stories™) are common antecedent-based interventions promoted for the purposes of improving prosocial behaviors and reducing challenging behavior for children with and without disabilities. Although they are commonly prescribed and used, their effectiveness has almost exclusively been assessed for children with…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Personal Narratives, Intervention
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Martin, Florence; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Budhrani, Kiran – American Journal of Distance Education, 2017
Systematic reviews of literature are studies that strategically search for published research on a specific topic in order to synthesize what is known about the topic. This systematic review describes 157 articles on synchronous online learning (SOL) from thirty-four different countries on instructional setting, content areas, participant…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Educational Research, Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning
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Bacca, Jorge; Baldiris, Silvia; Fabregat, Ramon; Graf, Sabine; Kinshuk – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in applying Augmented Reality (AR) to create unique educational settings. So far, however, there is a lack of review studies with focus on investigating factors such as: the uses, advantages, limitations, effectiveness, challenges and features of augmented reality in educational settings.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Simulation, Simulated Environment, Teaching Methods
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Haber, Mason G.; Mazzotti, Valerie L.; Mustian, April L.; Rowe, Dawn A.; Bartholomew, Audrey L.; Test, David W.; Fowler, Catherine H. – Review of Educational Research, 2016
Students with disabilities experience poorer post-school outcomes compared with their peers without disabilities. Existing experimental literature on "what works" for improving these outcomes is rare; however, a rapidly growing body of research investigates correlational relationships between experiences in school and post-school…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Predictor Variables, Success, Postsecondary Education
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Rao, Potti Srinivasa; Viswanadhan, K. G.; Raghunandana, K. – International Education Studies, 2015
Maximum number of privately funded engineering institutions have been established in India in the last two decades to meet the growing needs of technical manpower required by the Engineering and IT companies as well as aspiring students after completion of the Pre-University Program. However, a large number of institutions have not been able to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Best Practices, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
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Boeije, Hennie; Slagt, Meike; van Wesel, Floryt – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2013
In mixed methods research (MMR), integrating the quantitative and the qualitative components of a study is assumed to result in additional knowledge (or "yield"). This narrative review examines the extent to which MMR is used in the field of childhood trauma and provides directions for improving mixed methods studies in this field. A…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Research Methodology, Trauma, Literature Reviews
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Hawken, Leanne S.; Bundock, Kaitlin; Kladis, Kristin; O'Keeffe, Breda; Barret, Courtenay A. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2014
The purpose of this systematic literature review was to summarize outcomes of the Check-in Check-out (CICO) intervention across elementary and secondary settings. Twenty-eight studies utilizing both single subject and group (experimental and quasi-experimental) designs were included in this review. Median effect sizes across the eight group…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students
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Labin, Susan N.; Duffy, Jennifer L.; Meyers, Duncan C.; Wandersman, Abraham; Lesesne, Catherine A. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2012
The continuously growing demand for program results has produced an increased need for evaluation capacity building (ECB). The "Integrative ECB Model" was developed to integrate concepts from existing ECB theory literature and to structure a synthesis of the empirical ECB literature. The study used a broad-based research synthesis method with…
Descriptors: Synthesis, Literature Reviews, Data Analysis, Coding
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Sreckovic, Melissa A.; Common, Eric A.; Knowles, Meagan M.; Lane, Kathleen Lynne – Behavioral Disorders, 2014
In this systematic review, we evaluated the evidence base of self-regulated strategy development (SRSD; Harris & Graham, 1992) for writing with students with and at risk for emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD). First, we evaluated the quality of studies identified (n 5 13) by applying the quality indicators for single case (Horner et al.,…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Writing Instruction, Literature Reviews
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