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Akcoltekin, Alpturk; Engin, Ali Osman; Sevgin, Hikmet – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Purpose: The main objective is to investigate high school teachers' attitudes relating to educational research with respect to demographic variables. Research Methods: The study is based on the relational screening model. Data was obtained through an adapted scale to determine high school teachers' attitudes toward educational research. The study…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Educational Research
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Hamel, Christine; Turcotte, Sandrine; Laferriere, Therese; Bisson, Nicolas – McGill Journal of Education, 2015
Education research has shown the importance of helping students develop comprehension skills. Explanation-seeking rather than fact-seeking pedagogies have been shown to warrant deeper student understanding. This study investigates the use of Knowledge Forum (KF) in K-6 classrooms (n = 251) to develop students' explanation skills. To this end, we…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Interviews, Student Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication
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Qudais, Mahmoud Abu; Al-Omari, Aieman; Smadi, Rana – Journal of Institutional Research, 2009
The present study aimed to identify and interpret concerns of the new faculty members in Jordanian universities. A total of 336 new faculty members who participated in this study were asked to rate their perceptions of issues related to teaching, research, service, balancing work and home life and the academic culture of their workplace. Means and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Experience
White, Bozena – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
Using data from the reading component of the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (N = 113,050), the effects of gender and curricular track for nine sub-scores of reading achievement were investigated. Only students indicating that they did not receive additional programming support were included in the analysis. Gender accounted for less than…
Descriptors: Females, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences