NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 1 to 15 of 3,153 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
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
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lankenau, Greg R. – Environmental Education Research, 2018
Environmental thinkers and educators have argued for the importance of celebrating our connectedness to nature, or the perception of being part of, rather than separate from, the natural world. Using pre-and post-test measurements of Nature Relatedness and supplemental interviews, this study addresses the question of whether a particular…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainability, Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lowe, Andrew; Norris, Anthony C.; Farris, A. Jane; Babbage, Duncan R. – Field Methods, 2018
An important aspect of qualitative research is reaching saturation--loosely, a point at which observing more data will not lead to discovery of more information related to the research questions. However, there has been no validated means of objectively establishing saturation. This article proposes a novel quantitative approach to measuring…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Howard, Matt C. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2018
Scale pretests analyze the suitability of individual scale items for further analysis, whether through judging their face validity, wording concerns, and/or other aspects. The current article reviews scale pretests, separated by qualitative and quantitative methods, in order to identify the differences, similarities, and even existence of the…
Descriptors: Pretesting, Measures (Individuals), Test Items, Statistical Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Harling, Guy; Perkins, Jessica M.; Gómez-Olivé, Francesc Xavier; Morris, Katherine; Wagner, Ryan G.; Montana, Livia; Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa W.; Bärnighausen, Till; Kahn, Kathleen; Berkman, Lisa – Field Methods, 2018
Social network analysis depends on how social ties to others are elicited during interviews, a process easily affected by respondent and interviewer behaviors. We investigate how the number of self-reported important social contacts varied within a single data collection round. Our data come from Health and Aging in Africa: a Longitudinal Study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Longitudinal Studies, Social Networks
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Marshall, Jill; Bhasin, Amit; Boyles, Stephen; David, Bernard; James, Rachel; Patrick, Anita – Advances in Engineering Education, 2018
Our study used a natural experiment to compare a project-based cornerstone course with the traditionally-taught introductory course in civil engineering. During the study, two sections of the course were organized around an overarching project, the design of an event center, and the remaining sections used guest lectures, a textbook, and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Civil Engineering, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ceci, Stephen J. – Educational Psychologist, 2018
Although women are underrepresented in the most mathematically intensive fields, the gender gap in these fields has narrowed over the past 2 decades. In my E. L. Thorndike address I summarized the temporal trends in sex differences for 8 fields and considered factors that drive both the underrepresentation of women and its recent narrowing. I…
Descriptors: Females, Scientists, Disproportionate Representation, Gender Differences
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Chang, Hua-Cheng; Chen, Hung-Yuan – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Contemporary toy is characterized by accelerating social, cultural and technological change. An attractive action figure can grab consumers' attention, influence the latent consuming preference and evoke their pleasure. However, traditional design of action figure is always dependent on designer's opinion, subjective experience and preference. It…
Descriptors: Toys, Consumer Economics, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Rossman, Allan; Kaplan, Danny – Journal of Statistics Education, 2017
Danny Kaplan is DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Macalester College. He received Macalester's Excellence in teaching Award in 2006 and the CAUSE/USCOTS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. This interview took place via email on March 4-June 17, 2017. Topics covered in the interview include: (1) the current state of…
Descriptors: Interviews, Introductory Courses, Statistics, Statistical Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Alam, Gazi Mahabubul; Parvin, Morsheda – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Since its inception, Higher Education (HE) has always been playing a critical role for national development through the development of skilled manpower and intellectual civic society. Continuous paradigm shifting in HE in term of institutions' pattern and course delivery mode and method has always been the part of the process of HE transformation.…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Higher Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Johnson, Heather Lynn; McClintock, Evan – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2018
In this design experiment study, we investigated the problem: What conditions might foster students' discernment of a critical aspect--variation in unidirectional change (e.g., discerning a "decreasing" increase)? At a public middle school in a large US city, we led a sequence of three days of whole class lessons, followed by task-based,…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Interviews
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Prokop, Pavol; Fancovicová, Jana; Krajcovicová, Adriána – Journal of Biological Education, 2016
Children's ideas concerning natural phenomena often differ from those of scientists, and these ideas are termed as alternative conceptions. The prevalence of alternative conceptions is highest among young children who possess less experience with the natural world as compared with adults. Children's ideas about micro-organisms are of special…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Experience, Diseases, Scientific Concepts
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
An, Weihua; Winship, Christopher – Sociological Methods & Research, 2017
In this article, we review popular parametric models for analyzing panel data and introduce the latest advances in matching methods for panel data analysis. To the extent that the parametric models and the matching methods offer distinct advantages for drawing causal inference, we suggest using both to cross-validate the evidence. We demonstrate…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Statistical Inference, Interviews, Race
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Setiawati, Cut Irna; Wahyono, Agatha Christy – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2017
This research aims to purpose the division strategy for a pharmaceutical producer in Kalimantan area, named Dexa Medica Samarinda. Currently, this firm is facing a competitive market condition and evolving a decline position in the market. This research uses qualitative research method by organising intensive interview to important informants so…
Descriptors: Pharmacy, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Interviews
Hunter, Robin C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this quantitative, single case study was to examine principal perceptions of their own leadership traits which may impact student achievement. Principals in one Florida district were invited to participate in an open ended interview, providing their own perceptions of their personal leadership behaviors. By examining the data…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Academic Achievement, Scores, Statistical Analysis
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  ...  |  211