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Benjamin Rohr; John Levi Martin – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
It is common for social scientists to use formal quantitative methods to compare ecological units such as towns, schools, or nations. In many cases, the size of these units in terms of the number of individuals subsumed in each differs substantially. When the variables in question are counts, there is generally some attempt to neutralize…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Population Distribution, Ecology, Demography
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Anna-Carolina Haensch; Jonathan Bartlett; Bernd Weiß – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Discrete-time survival analysis (DTSA) models are a popular way of modeling events in the social sciences. However, the analysis of discrete-time survival data is challenged by missing data in one or more covariates. Negative consequences of missing covariate data include efficiency losses and possible bias. A popular approach to circumventing…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Research Problems, Social Science Research, Statistical Analysis
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Maxi Schulz; Malte Kramer; Oliver Kuss; Tim Mathes – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
In sparse data meta-analyses (with few trials or zero events), conventional methods may distort results. Although better-performing one-stage methods have become available in recent years, their implementation remains limited in practice. This study examines the impact of using conventional methods compared to one-stage models by re-analysing…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Data Analysis, Research Methodology, Research Problems
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David Bruns-Smith; Oliver Dukes; Avi Feller; Elizabeth L. Ogburn – Grantee Submission, 2024
We provide a novel characterization of augmented balancing weights, also known as automatic debiased machine learning (AutoDML). These popular "doubly robust" or "de-biased machine learning estimators" combine outcome modeling with balancing weights -- weights that achieve covariate balance directly in lieu of estimating and…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Weighted Scores, Data Analysis, Robustness (Statistics)
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Hasan Tutar; Mehmet Sahin; Teymur Sarkhanov – Qualitative Research Journal, 2024
Purpose: The lack of a definite standard for determining the sample size in qualitative research leaves the research process to the initiative of the researcher, and this situation overshadows the scientificity of the research. The primary purpose of this research is to propose a model by questioning the problem of determining the sample size,…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Sample Size, Qualitative Research, Models
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Julia Meisters; Adrian Hoffmann; Jochen Musch – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Indirect questioning techniques such as the randomized response technique aim to control social desirability bias in surveys of sensitive topics. To improve upon previous indirect questioning techniques, we propose the new Cheating Detection Triangular Model. Similar to the Cheating Detection Model, it includes a mechanism for detecting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Adults, Cheating
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Olivier Fuchs; Craig Robinson – Qualitative Research Journal, 2024
Purpose: Critical realism is an increasingly popular "lens" through which complex events, entities and phenomena can be studied. Yet detailed operationalisations of critical realism are at present relatively scarce. This study's objective here is built on existing debates by developing an open systems model of reality, a basis for…
Descriptors: Realism, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Research Problems
Xiangyi Liao – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Educational research outcomes frequently rely on an assumption that measurement metrics have interval-level properties. While most investigators know enough to be suspicious of interval-level claims, and in some cases even question their findings given such doubts, there is a lack of understanding regarding the measurement conditions that create…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Educational Research, Measurement, Evaluation Methods
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Kenneth A. Frank; Qinyun Lin; Spiro J. Maroulis – Grantee Submission, 2024
In the complex world of educational policy, causal inferences will be debated. As we review non-experimental designs in educational policy, we focus on how to clarify and focus the terms of debate. We begin by presenting the potential outcomes/counterfactual framework and then describe approximations to the counterfactual generated from the…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Statistical Inference, Observation, Educational Policy
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Ben Van Dusen; Heidi Cian; Jayson Nissen; Lucy Arellano; Adrienne D. Woods – Sociology of Education, 2024
This investigation examines the efficacy of multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) over fixed-effects models when performing intersectional studies. The research questions are as follows: (1) What are typical strata representation rates and outcomes on physics research-based assessments? (2) To what…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, STEM Education
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Rebecca A. Cruz; Catherine M. Kramarczuk Voulgarides; Allison R. Firestone; Logan McDermott; Zhihui Feng – Review of Educational Research, 2024
Research on disproportionate representation in special education has potential to influence policy in ways that rectify educational inequities. In this study, we investigated how disproportionality researchers have operationalized dis-ability, identified key themes and theories used in disproportionality research, and evaluated the coherence…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Disabilities, Special Education, Educational Policy
Misato Hiraga – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation developed a new learner corpus of Japanese and introduced an error and linguistic annotation scheme specifically designed for Japanese particles. The corpus contains texts written by learners who are in the first year to fourth year university level Japanese courses. The texts in the corpus were tagged with part-of-speech and…
Descriptors: Japanese, Computational Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Error Analysis (Language)