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Sabine Gerhartz-Reiter – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
In the research project which formed part of my PhD study, I dealt with the topic of inequity in education. My main interest was to find out how (formal) educational careers can be fostered even if the starting position within the system is one which makes a successful educational career very difficult. Despite the fact that in the Austrian…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Research Projects, Research Design, Data Collection
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Ward, Alexandra M.; Wyllie, Graeme R. A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2019
We report here a second semester general chemistry laboratory project themed around chitosan-alginate bioplastics. With increasing awareness of plastic pollution in the environment and the awareness of the importance for materials which are either made from renewable resources or are biodegradable, this topic provides a relevant opportunity to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Chemistry, Science Laboratories
Eaton, Sarah Elaine – Online Submission, 2017
This manual is a practical training guide for graduate and undergraduate research assistants (RAs) working in the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. It may also be applicable to research assistants working in other fields or institutions. The purpose of this manual is to train RAs on how to plan and conduct focus groups for…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Research Assistants, Guides, Training Objectives
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Milligan, Lizzi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
This article reflects on the use of participative techniques with final-year secondary school students in one rural community in Western Kenya as an enabling tool for an outsider to both gain insider perspectives and develop a more insider role in that community by privileging and legitimating participant-driven data. Conclusions put forward the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Cross Cultural Studies, Participatory Research, Educational Researchers
Bachman, Jerald G.; Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Schulenberg, John E.; Miech, Richard A. – Institute for Social Research, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed description of the Monitoring the Future research design, including sampling design, data collection procedures, measurement content, and questionnaire format. This study assesses the changing lifestyles, values, and preferences of American youth on a continuing basis. Each year since 1975, at…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Youth, Life Style, Values
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Jackson, Elizabeth – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2013
As a university lecturer, I find that a frequent question raised by Masters students concerns the methodology chosen for research and the rationale required in dissertations. This paper unpicks some of the philosophical coherence that can inform choices to be made regarding methodology and a well-thought out rationale that can add to the rigour of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Masters Programs, Research Methodology, Doctoral Dissertations
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Chen, Yu-Wen; Masch, Lena; Finze, Kristin – Journal of Social Science Education, 2014
Using dictator games in experimental analysis, this lesson report demonstrates the process and results of a postgraduate class project in which university students were instructed to scientifically investigate and explore one of German society's most hotly-contested issues: the level of discriminatory tendencies of non-Muslims towards Muslims. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Graduate Students, Research Methodology
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Vig, Rozy; Taylor, Megan W.; Star, Jon R.; Chao, Theodore – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
The concept of "implementation fidelity" is broadly used to capture the extent to which an intervention is executed as intended by the designers of the intervention (Century, Rudnick, & Freeman, 2010; Huntley, 2005, McNaught, Tarr, & Sears, 2010, Munter, 2010). Though implementation fidelity instruments are often used to assess…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Program Implementation, Barriers, Intervention
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Kangai, Caleb; Bukaliya, Richard; Musika, Farirai; Babra, Mapuranga – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
One of the issues that have continued to attract the attention of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) educators, scholars and researchers at the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) is the question of quality in the assessment of students' research work. This study was part of a series of studies, into issues of quality, currently being conducted at the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Research Projects, Student Research, Undergraduate Students
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Volkwein, J. Fredericks – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
Assessment research is at its best when it packages research results and data so that they can be digested by multiple audiences. Too many assessment researchers spend all their efforts planning and executing the research project with little attention to closing the loop at the end. If assessment findings are not communicated effectively, the…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Audiences, Educational Research
McDonough, Beth Allsopp – Online Submission, 2014
More than two decades of debate since the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the term information literacy have been marked by ongoing criticism of its associated definitions and standards. Some scholars and practitioners have argued for a critical information literacy, which applies the precepts of critical pedagogy to…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Educational Practices, Undergraduate Students, Critical Theory
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Raddon, Mary-Beth; Nault, Caleb; Scott, Alexis – Teaching Sociology, 2008
Participatory exercises are standard practice in qualitative methods courses; less common are projects that engage students in the entire research process, from research design to write-up. Although the teaching literature provides several models of complete research projects, their feasibility, and appropriateness for large, compulsory,…
Descriptors: Research Design, Courses, Research Projects, Research Methodology
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Howe, Michael W. – Social Work, 1976
By keeping records of their own behavior, clients can provide useful data for research by practitioners as well as participate in an effective form of treatment. The author proposes guidelines for assuring the accuracy of clients' reports. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Data Collection, Learning Experience, Participation
Goodlad, John I.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Details the kinds of data and data sources used in "A Study of Schooling," the limitations of these data, examples of research questions explored, and the intentions of the researchers during analysis and interpretation of the data. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Objectives
Carrington, Andrew T.; And Others – 1984
The Curriculum Assessment and Development Project in the Virginia Beach (Virginia) Public Schools is summarized. It was a comprehensive study involving students, parents, teachers, and administrators in considering two key curricular questions: "What kind of person do we want to produce?" and "What knowledge is of most worth?"…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
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