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Reiss, Michael; Hoyles, Celia; Mujtaba, Tamjid; Riazi-Farzad, Bijan; Rodd, Melissa; Simon, Shirley; Stylianidou, Fani – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2011
We report on a project currently in progress that aims to identify through research the range of factors (individual, school and out-of-school, including home) and their interactions that influence post-16 (i.e. post-compulsory) participation in mathematics and physics in the UK and to assess their relative importance among different student…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Ethnography, Physics, Discourse Analysis
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O'Cathain, Alicia; Murphy, Elizabeth; Nicholl, Jon – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2007
A mixed methods study has the potential to produce knowledge that is unavailable to a qualitative study and a quantitative study undertaken independently. Any unique insight or "yield" from a mixed methods study may be difficult to assess in practice. However, given that integration of data or findings from different components of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques, Social Science Research, Health Services
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Duckett, Paul; Sixsmith, Judith; Kagan, Carolyn – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2008
This study explores the relationships between a school, its staff and its pupils and the impact of these relationships on school pupils' well-being. The authors adopted a community psychological perspective and applied critical, social constructionist epistemologies and participatory, multi-method research tools. The article discusses the…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques, Social Psychology, Foreign Countries
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Davies, Dan – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2007
This paper reports on a commissioned research project to evaluate the impact of support (mainly funding) given by the UK Government's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) to various projects under the general heading of "science learning" over a four-year period (2000-2004). Findings emerging from the study…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Program Evaluation, Institutional Mission, Endowment Funds
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Bailey, Richard; Morley, David – Sport, Education and Society, 2006
Traditional conceptions of talent generally emphasise the construction of threshold values and the development of relatively unitary abilities, and this approach still dominates talent development programmes for elite sport. Most researchers on high ability, however, now favour domain-specific, multidimensional conceptions of ability that stress…
Descriptors: Physical Education, International Studies, Talent Development, Training Methods
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Riley, Nigel R. – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2006
This study is concerned with evaluating critical learning of 10-11 year-old students studying global citizenship through an online discussion environment. The evaluation is based on analysing the use of language as both a social reasoning tool and cognitive learning tool. Evaluation methods use: (1) content analysis of the online discussion…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Concept Mapping, Computer Mediated Communication, Content Analysis