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Brandon Sepulvado; Jennifer Hamilton – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2022
Background/Context: Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are becoming a core means to collect and disseminate data for education research and policy. Surveys can be costly, slow, and burden respondents, and manually downloading data files is slow and cumbersome when many files are needed. APIs provide a programmatic way to collect data or…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Computer Software, Educational Research, Access to Information
Sauder, Adrienne E.; Gilson, Cindy M. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2023
There is a growing body of literature around digital research, specifically regarding data collection and how to pivot research designs to be more conducive to online and virtual research, but little in the way of how to analyze data remotely. In this article, we share firsthand experiences from a qualitative study utilizing Google apps, Zoom, and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Qualitative Research, Data Collection
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Henderson, J. Bryan; McNeill, Katherine L.; González-Howard, María; Close, Kevin; Evans, Mat – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
At the 2015 "NARST: A Worldwide Organization for Improving Science Teaching and Learning Through Research" Annual International Conference, a group of scholars held an extended pre-conference workshop to discuss key challenges and future directions faced by argumentation researchers around the world. This wide-ranging group of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Trends, Science Education, Persuasive Discourse
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Chu, Yiting – Social Studies, 2017
In an article published in 1993, Rahima Wade reviewed the quality of social studies textbook content analyses published in three major social studies journals between 1982 and 1992. She concluded that the quality of this research was disappointing. Borrowing and refining Wade's methods, this article presents the findings of a review of all 29…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Textbook Content, Content Analysis, Educational History
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Knight, David B.; Brozina, Cory; Novoselich, Brian – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2016
This paper investigates how first-year engineering undergraduates and their instructors describe the potential for learning analytics approaches to contribute to student success. Results of qualitative data collection in a first-year engineering course indicated that both students and instructors emphasized a preference for learning analytics…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, College Faculty, Attitude Measures
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Aghababyan, Ani; Martin, Taylor; Janisiewicz, Philip; Close, Kevin – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2016
Learning analytics is an emerging discipline and, as such, benefits from new tools and methodological approaches. This work reviews and summarizes our workshop on microgenetic data analysis techniques using R, held at the second annual Learning Analytics Summer Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 30 June 2014. Specifically, this paper…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Workshops
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Arnott, Lorna; Grogan, Deirdre; Duncan, Pauline – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2016
This article explores the use of iPads as part of a child-centred data collection approach to understand young children's creativity. Evidence is presented from a small study of three- to five-year-old children's creative play. Analysis of the children's engagement with iPad video diaries and free-to-use tablet applications was logged across two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handheld Devices, Preschool Children, Creativity
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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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Wyss, Corinne; Kocher, Mirjam; Baer, Matthias – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2017
Nowadays, there is a consensus that good teaching and learning needs instructional variation and personalised forms of learning. In teacher education, these concepts have been implemented for years, and prospective teachers are taught accordingly; it is thus assumed that the teaching of novice teachers is in accordance with these new teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
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Hau, Goh Bak; Siraj, Saedah; Alias, Norlidah; Rauf, Rose Amnah Abd.; Zakaria, Abd. Razak; Darusalam, Ghazali – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
This study provides a content analysis of selected articles in the field of QR code and its application in educational context that were published in journals and proceedings of international conferences and workshops from 2006 to 2011. These articles were cross analysed by published years, journal, and research topics. Further analysis was…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Content Analysis, Literature Reviews
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Teplovs, Chris – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2015
This commentary reflects on the contributions to learning analytics and theory by a paper that describes how multiple theoretical frameworks were woven together to inform the creation of a new, automated discourse analysis tool. The commentary highlights the contributions of the original paper, provides some alternative approaches, and touches on…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Theory Practice Relationship, Instructional Design
Bozkurt, Aras; Kumtepe, Evrim Genc; Kumtepe, Alper Tolga; Aydin, Irem Erdem; Bozkaya, Müjgan; Aydin, Cengiz Hakan – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2015
This paper presents a content analytic approach on doctoral dissertations in the field of distance education in Turkish Higher Education context from the years of 1986 through 2014. A total of 61 dissertations were examined to explore keywords, academic discipline, research areas, theoretical/conceptual frameworks, research designs, research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Higher Education
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Worsley, Marcelo; Blikstein, Paulo – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2014
Learning analytics and educational data mining are introducing a number of new techniques and frameworks for studying learning. The scalability and complexity of these novel techniques has afforded new ways for enacting education research and has helped scholars gain new insights into human cognition and learning. Nonetheless, there remain some…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Engineering, Design
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Sao Pedro, Michael A.; Baker, Ryan S. J. d.; Gobert, Janice D. – Grantee Submission, 2013
When validating assessment models built with data mining, generalization is typically tested at the student-level, where models are tested on new students. This approach, though, may fail to find cases where model performance suffers if other aspects of those cases relevant to prediction are not well represented. We explore this here by testing if…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Generalizability Theory
OECD Publishing, 2014
The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will establish technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the survey design and implementation processes of PIAAC yield high-quality and internationally comparable data. This document provides a revised version of the technical standards and guidelines originally…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence
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