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Ozlem Oktay; Ilknur Reisoglu; Seyda Gul; Dilek Teke; Mustafa Sozbilir; Ilayda Gunes; Rumeysa Yildiz; Gulsah Atila; Aysegul Yazar; Lauri Malmi; Päivi Kinnunen; Jarkko Lampiselkä; Arja Kaasinen – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2025
The aim of this study is to compare the master's (MA) theses in Türkiye (TR) and Finland (FIN) published between 2015-2019. A total of 765 theses were analysed in terms of year, discipline, methodological approach, research method, didactic foci, data collection tool, target group, and sample size. The results showed that FIN theses grounded on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Theses, STEM Education, Intellectual Disciplines
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Gillborn, David; Warmington, Paul; Demack, Sean – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2018
Quantitative research enjoys heightened esteem among policy-makers, media, and the general public. Whereas qualitative research is frequently dismissed as subjective and impressionistic, statistics are often assumed to be objective and factual. We argue that these distinctions are wholly false; quantitative data is no less socially constructed…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Race, Critical Theory, Criticism
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Garcia, Nichole M.; Mayorga, Oscar J. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2018
This article uses a critical race theory framework to conceptualize a Critical Race Transformative Convergent Mixed Methods (CRTCMM) in education. CRTCMM is a methodology that challenges normative educational research practices by acknowledging that racism permeates educational institutions and marginalizes Communities of Color. The focus of this…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Mixed Methods Research, Minority Groups
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Chang Rundgren, Shu-Nu – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
In this increasingly globalised age, ideas developed in different cultures and countries can be disseminated very rapidly, which is supposed to allow people who live in different cultures to exchange information and learn from each other easily. However, the process of adapting educational ideas developed within one culture for use in another…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Teaching Methods, Cultural Relevance, Teacher Attitudes
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Drent, Marjolein; Meelissen, Martina R. M.; van der Kleij, Fabienne M. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
Worldwide, the interest of policy-makers in participating in studies from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), such as Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) has been growing rapidly over the past two decades. These studies offer the opportunity to relate the teaching and…
Descriptors: International Programs, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Data Analysis
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Museus, Samuel D.; Truong, Kimberly A. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2009
This article highlights the utility of disaggregating qualitative research and assessment data on Asian American college students. Given the complexity of and diversity within the Asian American population, scholars have begun to underscore the importance of disaggregating data in the empirical examination of Asian Americans, but most of those…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, College Students, Cultural Differences, Data Analysis
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Vallery, Georgia G. – Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, 1971
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Data Analysis, Educational Research, Semantic Differential
Olaniran, Bolanle A., Ed. – Information Science Publishing, 2010
E-learning has become a significant aspect of training and education in the worldwide information economy as an attempt to create and facilitate a competent global work force. "Cases on Successful E-Learning Practices in the Developed and Developing World: Methods for the Global Information Economy" provides eclectic accounts of case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Operations Research, Distance Education
Allen, D. I.; Birch, D. R. – 1973
An in-progress report of a study exploring the nature and content of children's concepts of their own and other countries is presented. Current literature on early development of concepts of other people and places is reviewed, followed by a description of the open-ended procedure adopted for gathering data. The test is being conducted in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Santoro, Ninetta; Allard, Andrea – Australian Educational Researcher, 2006
As teacher-educators, we designed and implemented a small study that mapped teacher-education students' understandings of their own identities and how they made sense of ethnicity and class differences among their secondary students while on teaching rounds. While we didn't set out to "teach" our research participants, it was during the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teacher Education, Data Analysis
Freeland, Brett – 2000
This report, which is based primarily on figures released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), reviews the indicators available for international comparisons of vocational education and training (VET) to clarify the following issues: the kinds of comparability problems that exit, their extent and severity, their…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Cort, H. Russell, Jr.; Peskowitz, Nancy – 1977
This second volume of the summative evaluation of "Man: A Course of Study" (MACOS) presents results of quantitative analyses of what MACOS students seemed to learn, what they retained one year later, and how what they learned was different from what students in other social studies courses learned. The first part of the document compares…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anthropology, Classroom Environment, Course Evaluation
Cort, H. Russell, Jr.; Peskowitz, Nancy – 1977
This document, the first volume of the summative evaluation of "Man: A Course of Study" (MACOS), focuses on motivation and achievement of students using the MACOS curriculum. The major purpose of the two-year study was to compare MACOS as it was taught in 57 fifth and sixth grade classes in 15 school districts with other social studies…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Objectives, Anthropology, Cognitive Objectives