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Direct linkLouise Isham; Joy Fillingham; Jason Schaub – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2025
Qualifying social work education is recognised as playing a critical role in equipping practitioners with the skills and interest to develop a 'research minded' approach to practice, yet in the UK context, the profession continues to grapple with questions about how to support practitioners to sustain and develop these skills post-qualification.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Work, College Faculty, College Students
Download full textJessica D. Hanson; Adam Livengood; Cara Kulbacki-Fabisiak; Kory Hardcastle; Dedra Buchwald; Michael McDonell – Journal of Research Administration, 2023
Background: Pilot project programs offer early-stage and other investigators support to pursue emerging research areas, explore new methodologies, gain experience as principal investigators, and collect pilot data needed to pursue larger extramural research funding, such as from the National Institutes of Health. Pilot project programs may be…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Pilot Projects, Research Administration, Research Projects
Hautala, Johanna; Schmidt, Suntje – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
Many geographers graduating from universities enter an international and project-based professional life, which includes working in geographically dispersed project teams. In Europe, the Bologna process aligned study programs and supported student mobility to prepare students for such a work environment. However, research on higher education has…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Learning Processes, Cooperative Learning, Student Research
Hayes, Nóirín; Maguire, Jackie; Corcoran, Lucie; O'Sullivan, Carmel – Irish Educational Studies, 2017
Artful Dodgers is an arts education project developed by two artists and delivered in two early years settings located in two areas of urban disadvantage. It is a music and visual arts programme designed and implemented with early years teachers of children aged 3-5 years. It explored whether the provision of high-quality arts experiences could…
Descriptors: Art, Art Education, Research Projects, Early Childhood Education
"I'm More Confident Now, I Was Really Quiet": Exploring the Potential Benefits of Child-Led Research
Graham, Anne; Simmons, Catharine; Truscott, Julia – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2017
This article explores whether child-led research (CLR) benefits the well-being of the children and young people involved. The article draws upon evaluation data from a pilot CLR programme facilitated by a non-government organisation that supports disadvantaged children, young people and families. Nine participants (aged 10-14 years old)…
Descriptors: Children, Qualitative Research, Foreign Countries, Research
Befus, Madelaine – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2016
This paper will provide a methodology and progress report from a multivocal thematic synthesis being conducted on an extensive, diverse body of empirical studies. The study data includes a corpus of peer-reviewed empirical literature sharing a common reference published in English between 2000 and 2014. In this study, data to be synthesized share…
Descriptors: Methods, Grounded Theory, Research Projects, Teaching Methods
Baillie, Giselle; Duker, Mary; Nsele, Zamansele – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2019
In 2014, through the University of the Free State's (UFS) Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice (IRSJ), three South African universities partnered to collaborate on the pilot phase of a research project focused on understanding whether the Arts could enable social cohesion, as the 2012 National Development Plan (2030) had promoted. All…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Social Change, Guidelines, Universities
Kitawi, Alfred Kirigha – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2014
This research examined the issue of community capacity development in a university. The main way communities were empowered was through the education management programmes offered at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. The research is among the first to examine the issue of community capacity development through university programmes. The…
Descriptors: Community Development, Capacity Building, Universities, Foreign Countries
Gilbert, Jane; Bull, Ally – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2014
This working paper sets out some of the early findings from a pilot project to explore the qualities that future-oriented teachers might need and how those qualities might be developed. The work began under a New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) project called Back to the Future and is now part of a Teaching & Learning Research…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Teacher Competencies, Educational Research, Educational Needs
Lim, Billy; Hosack, Bryan; Vogt, Paul – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
This paper describes a framework for measuring student learning gains and engagement in a Computer Science 1 (CS 1) / Information Systems 1 (IS 1) course. The framework is designed for a CS1/IS1 course as it has been traditionally taught over the years as well as when it is taught using a new pedagogical approach with Web services. It enables the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Science, Internet, Information Systems
Saari, Eveliina; Kallio, Katri – American Journal of Evaluation, 2011
Innovations and new project ideas often emerge in networks of researchers, users of research, and societal actors. This article analyzes and discusses how research scientists learn to conduct research that has an impact on their clients, scientific community, and society. We describe a new developmental impact evaluation method based on the theory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Scientists, Researchers
Lopez-Pastor, Victor M.; Pintor, Patricia; Muros, Beatriz; Webb, Graham – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
This paper analyses two aspects of developing formative assessment processes within universities in Spain: the academic performance of the students and the workload that formative assessment creates for both academic staff and students. It presents the results of 10 research projects covering the first semester of the 2007-08 academic year, mainly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement
Siller, Michael; Morgan, Lindee; Turner-Brown, Lauren; Baggett, Kathleen M.; Baranek, Grace T.; Brian, Jessica; Bryson, Susan E.; Carter, Alice S.; Crais, Elizabeth R.; Estes, Annette; Kasari, Connie; Landa, Rebecca J.; Lord, Catherine; Messinger, Daniel S.; Mundy, Peter; Odom, Samuel L.; Reznick, J. Steven; Roberts, Wendy; Rogers, Sally J.; Schertz, Hannah H.; Smith, Isabel M.; Stone, Wendy L.; Watson, Linda R.; Wetherby, Amy M.; Yoder, Paul J.; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie – Journal of Early Intervention, 2013
Given recent advances in science, policy, and practice of early identification in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), questions about the effectiveness of early intervention have far-reaching service and policy implications. However, rigorous research evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of intervention programs for toddlers with ASD faces a…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Intervention, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism
Shrestha, Prithvi; Coffin, Caroline – Assessing Writing, 2012
Supporting undergraduate students with their academic literacies has recently been a major focus in higher education in the UK. This paper explores the value of tutor mediation in the context of academic writing development among undergraduate business studies students in open and distance learning, following the dynamic assessment (DA) approach…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Undergraduate Students, Writing (Composition), Distance Education
Investigating Pupil Talk in Multilingual Contexts: Socio-Cultural Learning, Teaching and Researching
Conteh, Jean; Kumar, Rita; Beddow, Derek – Education 3-13, 2008
This article is about a small-scale research project which aimed to investigate in one local authority (LA) in England some of the outcomes of the nationwide PNS/EMA (Primary National Strategy/Ethnic Minority Achievement) pilot project, begun in 65 LAs in England in January 2004. The research project itself was conducted in the summer term of 2006…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Pilot Projects, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
