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Jamelia Harris – Field Methods, 2024
Not knowing the population size is a common problem in data-limited contexts. Drawing on work in Sierra Leone, this short take outlines a four-step solution to this problem: (1) estimate the population size using expert interviews; (2) verify estimates using interviews with participants sampled; (3) triangulate using secondary data; and (4)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sample Size, Surveys, Computation
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Durrant, Gabriele B.; Maslovskaya, Olga; Smith, Peter W.F. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2019
Researchers have become increasingly interested in better understanding the survey data collection process in interviewer-administered surveys. However, tools for analysing paradata capturing information about field processes, also called call record data, are still not yet fully explored. This paper introduces sequence analysis as a simple tool…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, Interviews, Surveys
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Winne, Philip H. – Frontline Learning Research, 2020
This special issue's editors invited discussion of three broad questions. Slightly rephrased, they are: How well do self-report data represent theoretical constructs? How should analyses of data be conditioned by properties of self report data? In what ways do interpretations of self-report data shape interpretations of a study's findings? To…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Measurement Techniques, Data Collection, Protocol Analysis
Coburn, Karen L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of the study was to determine whether the advent of healthcare information technology was a viable career pathway for the people of northeastern Kentucky. The qualitative study used the Delphi Method to conduct and examine interviews with nine experts in Kentucky's workforce development, economic development, education, and healthcare…
Descriptors: Health Services, Information Technology, Labor Force Development, Qualitative Research
Bearden, Allison – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Christian school education is unique in nature. Integrating faith into academics led many families to choose an environment for their students that aligned with the faith, morals, and doctrinal beliefs they held as essential pieces in raising their children. The partnership with the school in instilling a strong foundation of faith for students…
Descriptors: Institutional Mission, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
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McGinley, Jacqueline; Waldrop, Deborah P.; Clemency, Brian – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
Background: Emergency medical services (EMS) providers are often called to rapidly determine and act upon patients' wishes for end-of-life care. People with intellectual disabilities are living increasingly longer with complex conditions leading to international calls for person-centred advance care planning. Yet, best estimates suggest that very…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Medical Services, Allied Health Personnel, Death
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Ashmann, Scott; Franzen, Rebecca L. – Environmental Education Research, 2017
There is an urgent need for primary and secondary students to develop awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and an environmental ethic necessary to undertake environmental issues and problems. The need to adequately prepare teachers to teach about the environment, and the challenges the field of environmental education (EE) faces lead us to the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Environmental Education, Case Studies
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Keuning, Trynke; Van Geel, Marieke; Visscher, Adrie – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2017
The use of data for adaptive, tailor-made education can be beneficial for students with learning difficulties. While evaluating the effects of a data-based decision-making (DBDM) intervention on student outcomes, considerable variation between intervention effects, ranging from high-intervention effects to small or even negative intervention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Data Analysis
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West, Deborah; Huijser, Henk; Heath, David – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
As learning analytics activity has increased, a variety of ethical implications and considerations have emerged, though a significant research gap remains in explicitly investigating the views of key stakeholders, such as academic staff. This paper draws on ethics-related findings from an Australian study featuring two surveys, one of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Educational Research, Ethics
Jamieson, Thad Spencer – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The use of mathematics performance tasks can provide a window into how a student is applying mathematics to various situations, how they are reasoning mathematically and how they are applying conceptual knowledge through problem solving and critical thinking. The purpose of this study was to investigate, according to the elementary mathematics…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics, Performance Factors, Problem Solving
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Aslan, Aydin; Zhu, Chang – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2018
The objective of this study is to investigate the factors influencing the integration of ICT of starting teachers in lower secondary schools in the Turkish context. Both quantitative and qualitative research was implemented for this objective. The participants were selected according to a stratified two-stage sampling design. That is, they were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Technology Integration, Secondary School Teachers
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Ji, Daniel; Sullivan, Richard – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Although previous research has explored the efficacy of differential response (DR) programs in child welfare, there have been no studies to date about coding decisions between designations by child protection service agencies. Research has explored client satisfaction with DR as well as rates of recidivism and removal/placement but with limited…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Coding, Foster Care, Decision Making
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Mostafa, Tarek – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2016
This study expands our knowledge of consent in linking survey and administrative data by studying respondents' behaviour when consenting to link their own records and when consenting to link those of their children. It develops and tests a number of hypothesised mechanisms of consent, some of which were not explored in the past. The hypotheses…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Records (Forms), Privacy, Surveys
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Behr, Dorothée – Field Methods, 2015
Open-ended probing questions in cross-cultural surveys help uncover equivalence problems in cross-cultural survey research. For languages that a project team does not understand, probe answers need to be translated into a common project language. This article presents a case study on translating open-ended, that is, narrative answers. It describes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Surveys, Cross Cultural Studies
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Dorfman, Jay – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2016
Ubiquitous computing scenarios such as the one-to-one model, in which every student is issued a device that is to be used across all subjects, have increased in popularity and have shown both positive and negative influences on education. Music teachers in schools that adopt one-to-one models may be inadequately equipped to integrate this kind of…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Music, Teaching Experience, Music Education
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