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Direct linkClaire Cameron – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
The 'Young People from a Public Care Background: Pathways to Education in Europe' project was funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 7 and coordinated from the United Kingdom. It brought together a multidisciplinary team of social scientists from five European Union member states representing different welfare regime…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foster Care, Postsecondary Education, Social Science Research
Peer reviewedMartínez Abad, Fernando; Chaparro Caso López, Alicia A. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
In light of the emergence of statistical analysis techniques based on data mining in education sciences, and the potential they offer to detect non-trivial information in large databases, this paper presents a procedure used to detect factors linked to academic achievement in large-scale assessments. The study is based on a non-experimental,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Statistical Analysis, Evaluation Methods
Download full textOrr, Margaret Terry – 1995
This document, which is intended for individuals at the state and local levels with responsibility for school-to-work opportunities, focuses on recommended standard procedures for evaluating school-to-work transition programs. In the introduction, the role of evaluation as a critical element in an overall program management strategy is discussed…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
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
Coffey, Amanda – 1994
This paper explores the dynamic nature of the power relationship within social research, concentrating on the production and reproduction of a text of the field and focusing on the processes of recording, writing, and reading. It draws on ethnographic research conducted in a United Kingdom office of an international firm of chartered accountants…
Descriptors: Accountants, Accounting, Authors, College Graduates
Piquemal, Nathalie; Kouritzin, Sandra – Canadian Journal of Education, 2006
In this article, we have examined how historical events shape the research process, even when research is carefully planned and rigorously executed. Through an examination of our experiences conducting international data collection during a three-year SSHRC funded period in which the War on Terrorism and the War in Iraq began, we suggest that…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Influences, Reliability
