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Direct linkJerolmack, Colin – Sociological Methods & Research, 2023
Ethnographic and interview research have made significant contributions to cumulative social science and influenced the public conversation around important social issues. However, debates rage over whether the standards of positivistic social science can or should be used to judge the rigor of interpretive methods. I begin this essay by briefly…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Ethnography, Evaluation Criteria
Buckley, Jeffrey; Adams, Latif; Aribilola, Ifeoluwapo; Arshad, Iram; Azeem, Muhammad; Bracken, Lauryn; Breheny, Colette; Buckley, Ciara; Chimello, Ismael; Fagan, Alison; Fitzpatrick, Daniel P.; Garza Herrera, Diana; Gomes, Guilherme Daniel; Grassick, Shaun; Halligan, Elaine; Hirway, Amit; Hyland, Tomás; Imtiaz, Muhammad Babar; Khan, Muhammad Bilal; Lanzagorta Garcia, Eduardo; Lennon, Paul; Manaf, Eyman; Meng, Jing; Mohd Sufian, Mohd Sufino Zuhaily; Moraes, Adrielle; Osterwald, Katja Magdalena; Platonava, Anastasia; Reid, Clodagh; Renard, Michèle; Rodriguez-Barroso, Laura G.; Simonassi-Paiva, Bianca; Singh, Maulshree; Szank, Tomasz; Tahir, Mehwish; Vijayakumar, Sowmya; Ward, Cormac; Yan, Xinyu; Zainol, Ismin; Zhang, Lin – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
A high level of transparency in reported research is critical for several reasons, such as ensuring an acceptable level of trustworthiness and enabling replication. Transparency in qualitative research permits the identification of specific circumstances which are associated with findings and observations. Thus, transparency is important for the…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Accountability
Datnow, Amanda; Choi, Bailey; Park, Vicki; St. John, Elise – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background: Data-driven decision making continues to be a common feature of educational reform agendas across the globe. In many U.S. schools, the teacher team meeting is a key setting in which data use is intended to take place, with the aim of planning instruction to address students' needs. However, most prior research has not examined how the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Data, Decision Making, Accountability
Creating an Ofsted Story: The Role of Early Years Assessment Data in Schools' Narratives of Progress
Bradbury, Alice; Roberts-Holmes, Guy – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This paper explores the growing importance of measures of progress in judgements of schools' effectiveness in England, with a focus on the role of the early years (settings for children aged 2-5) in providing data for these measures. Qualitative data from a research project involving three diverse school-based and pre-compulsory early years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Outcome Measures, Early Childhood Education
Download full textStover, Bert; Lubega, Flavia; Namubiru, Aidah; Bakengesa, Evelyn; Luboga, Samuel Abimerech; Makumbi, Frederick; Kiwanuka, Noah; Ndizihiwe, Assay; Mukooyo, Eddie; Hurley, Erin; Lim, Travis; Borse, Nagesh N.; Bernhardt, James; Wood, Angela; Sheppard, Lianne; Barnhart, Scott; Hagopian, Amy – Journal of Research Practice, 2018
We report on the implementation experience of carrying out data collection and other activities for a public health evaluation study on whether U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) investment improved utilization of health services and health system strengthening in Uganda. The retrospective study period focused on the PEPFAR…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Health, Data Collection, Program Implementation
Roberts-Holmes, Guy; Bradbury, Alice – Improving Schools, 2016
This article raises important questions about whether the increasing control of early years education through performance data is genuinely a means for school improvement. This composite article, examines the pervasiveness of attainment data in early years education professional activity, its impact on early years teachers' consciousness and…
Descriptors: Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Accountability, Data
Roberts-Holmes, Guy; Bradbury, Alice – British Educational Research Journal, 2016
In this paper we attempt to critically "make visible the flow and circulation of data" through analysing the datafication of the early years education sector in England (children aged 2-5). The concept of datafication is used to understand the processes and impacts of burgeoning data-based governance and accountability regimes. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Accountability, Early Childhood Education
Leary, Thomas D., IV. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Institutions of higher education both value and need student assessment data. Faculty, as seen in numerous studies, however, have generally negatively received the formalization and reporting of student assessments to gather this assessment data. If we could better understand faculty experiences and perceptions of student assessment data within…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Phenomenology, Interviews, College Faculty
Hora, Matthew T.; Bouwma-Gearhart, Jana; Park, Hyoung Joon – Review of Higher Education, 2017
In this article the authors report findings from a practice-based study that examines the cultural practices of data use among 59 science and engineering faculty from three large, public research universities. In this exploratory study they documented how faculty use teaching-related data "in the wild" using interviews and classroom…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Accountability, College Faculty
Snodgrass Rangel, Virginia; Bell, Elizabeth R.; Monroy, Carlos – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
A key assumption of accountability policies is that educators will use data to improve their instruction. In practice, however, data use is quite hard, and more districts are looking to instructional coaches to support their teachers. The purpose of this descriptive analysis is to examine how instructional coaches in elementary and middle school…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Science Education, Data, Accountability
Derrington, Mary Lynne; Kirk, Julia – Professional Development in Education, 2017
This study explores the link between individualized, job-embedded professional development and teacher evaluation. Moreover, the study explores and describes job-embedded strategies that principals used to facilitate teacher development while working within a state-mandated evaluation system. The theoretical frame utilized four elements of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mandatory Continuing Education, Teacher Education, Teacher Evaluation
Bastian, Kevin C.; Fortner, C. Kevin; Chapman, Alisa; Fleener, M. Jayne; McIntyre, Ellen; Patriarca, Linda A. – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: Teacher preparation programs (TPPs) face increasing pressure from the federal government, states, and accreditation agencies to improve the quality of their practices and graduates, yet they often do not possess enough data to make evidence-based reforms. Purpose/Objective: This manuscript has four objectives: (a) to present…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Competencies, Accountability, Program Evaluation
Roberts-Holmes, Guy – Journal of Education Policy, 2015
Following the election of the Conservative--Liberal Democrat UK coalition Government in 2010, there has been an urgent intensification and focus upon early years numeracy and literacy and promoting systematic synthetic phonics. This paper argues that the current narrowing of early years assessment, along with increased inspection and surveillance,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Data, Numeracy
Beaver, Jessica K.; Weinbaum, Elliot H. – Educational Policy, 2015
Although much has been written about the potential benefits of effective data use in schools, considerably less attention has been paid to how schools make sense of the data generated from performance-based accountability measures. This article explores schools' usage of state test data, the intensity of data use, and the perceived utility of…
Descriptors: Data, Educational Improvement, Information Utilization, Tests
Quaresma, Maria Luísa – Schools: Studies in Education, 2017
In this article, I aim to analyze the perceptions regarding excellence shared by students of high-performing public schools in Santiago de Chile and simultaneously to reflect on the way in which they experience it, inside and outside of school. Through the analysis of 24 focus groups conducted in six schools, I conclude that students share…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, High Achievement, Public Schools
