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Ivy Chia; Wai Cheong Eugene Chew – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in educators making a sudden shift to a largely online modality in teaching. For educators used to studio teaching, this change would require them to adapt their teaching approaches online and adopt new teaching approaches. Using the online videoconferencing tool (i.e., Zoom) for online interviews in real-time, a…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, Videoconferencing
Ayeshah Syed; David Yoong; Nor Mohd Nazari – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
In some studies, participants are assigned ethnographic or communicative tasks, such as field-work observation, life-story interviews, and photography. These studies usually involve in-person interaction, both for the participants doing the task and for the researchers in engaging with participants throughout the research process. Our study was…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Dentistry, Graduate Students, Empathy
Sheryl MacMath; Barbara SalingrĂ© – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
Our research examines the effectiveness of intake variables used by a Canadian post-degree teacher education program over the period of 3 years to select candidates for entry into the program. Using a mixed-methods approach, we compared intake variables (grade point average, written response, work experience, reference letters, academic…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Mixed Methods Research, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries
Sau Kew Chong – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
The research on which this case account is based was motivated by my interest to understand what counts as literacy in schools. I started my career as a primary school teacher, teaching English language to children. The children were avid readers. Although they were good readers and communicators, what baffled me were the dismal language scores…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Reading Habits, Writing (Composition)
Katie Gathercole – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This case study reflects on cross-disciplinary, health, and education PhD research that explored the educational experiences of children and young people with the medical condition cystic fibrosis. Children with medical conditions may experience particular difficulties in education, potentially making them vulnerable at school. During the case…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Online Systems, Interviews, Educational Experience
Rafiqah Mustafaa – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
In January 2014, I began working as an evaluator on an education reform project being implemented by faculty in science and engineering departments at my university. The core goals of the project were for participating faculty members to improve students' learning, engagement, and recruitment and retention in selected introductory-level courses…
Descriptors: Observation, Interviews, College Faculty, Evaluation Methods
Jan Georgeson; Verity Campbell-Barr – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
This case study describes the adoption of a mixed-methods approach to explore provision for 2-year-olds in England at a time when funding for free places for disadvantaged children became available. A literature review was carried out to find out about aspects of early childhood provision considered important for 2-year-old children's development,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Cathy Miyata – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
I began my PhD in Literacies Studies in 2012 at the University of Toronto, while also a sessional instructor at Brock University in the Department of Teacher Education. The goal of my doctoral studies was twofold: to more deeply understand the role of the teacher educator in this current tumultuous educational climate and to examine…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, 21st Century Skills, Teacher Attitudes, Multiple Literacies
Ingrid Nix; Marion Hall – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This case study describes a method of collecting data on students' experiences of developing digital literacy (information and communications technology) skills as part of their course at the United Kingdom's Open University. An online reflective quiz was integrated into three health and social care modules, offering students the opportunity both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Interviews, Data Collection
Lisa DaVia Rubenstein; E. Jean Gubbins – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
Designing, developing, and implementing a multi-year randomized control trial targeting what works in gifted education mathematics study is challenging, at best. In response to the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences request for proposal, we carefully constructed a mixed-methods study by assembling a diverse…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Research Design, Randomized Controlled Trials, Interviews
Sheila B. Robinson – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This formative evaluation study of a professional development institute for K-12 educators examined immediate outcomes and short-term impacts on participants' learning and change in mathematics teaching practice. Participants' journals and interviews were analyzed using qualitative methods and a grounded theory (the discovery of theory from…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Evaluation Methods, Research Methodology, Faculty Development
Julie Anderson – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This case report describes the methods used to investigate a study concerning the Literacy and Numeracy assessment practices of primary teachers and the impact of educational reform (Blueprint 1). Qualitative case study methods framed by an ethnological approach were useful in the study, and the participants were bounded by the context of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Research Methodology, Literacy, Numeracy
Luis M. Andrade; Angela Hoppe Nagao; Esmeralda Medrano; Josephine Macharia Lowe; Ding-Jo Currie – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2015
In this case study, a team of doctoral students--Luis M. Andrade, Angela Hoppe Nagao, Esmeralda Medrano, and Josephine Macharia Lowe--in a community college leadership program participated in a service-learning field project as part of an organizational theory course to analyze comparative outcomes of a college orientation and preparation program…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Community Colleges, School Orientation, Interviews
Rashunda L. Stitt; Denise L. Winsor – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
First-generation college students are viewed as a group of at-risk individuals simply because their parents did not attend college. As a result, these students are at a higher risk of dropping out than other college students if their needs are not met. A number of researchers have conducted studies of first-generation college students in order to…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Attitudes, At Risk Students, Student Needs