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Lucas, Kristen – Communication Teacher, 2011
Every day people are bombarded with information about romantic relationships. Magazine articles offer how-to advice on flirting, dating, and fixing relationship problems. Advertisements--from billboards to radio commercials to email marketing campaigns--feature products that promise to help people attract a special someone. Television and movie…
Descriptors: College Students, Dating (Social), Behavior Standards, Intimacy
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Piggot-Irvine, Eileen; Aitken, Helen; Ritchie, Jenny; Ferguson, P. Bruce; McGrath, Fiona – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
In this research, commissioned by the New Zealand Teachers Council, the quality of induction of provisionally registered teachers (PRT) (newly qualified) was examined utilising qualitative "success case studies" within early childhood, primary, secondary, and indigenous Mori medium settings. The establishment of criteria for effective…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
Thomas, R. Murray – 2003
This guide discusses combining qualitative and quantitative research methods in theses and dissertations. It covers a wide array of methods, the strengths and limitations of each, and how they can be effectively interwoven into various research designs. The first chapter is "The Qualitative and the Quantitative." Part 1, "A…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Doctoral Dissertations
Maurice, Araya – Guidelines: A Periodical for Classroom Language Teachers, 1989
Diary studies in language teaching are first-person case studies in which the diarist-researcher investigates his/her own language learning or teaching through by recording personal observations. A diary study of a teacher of English for Academic Purposes II is described, including data collection, procedures, and problems. (10 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Data Collection, English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries, Instructional Improvement
Alaska Univ., Anchorage. – 1990
Evaluation can be crucial to help meet the needs and requirements of the teacher, students, and curriculum in distance education. Distance education usually encompasses a wide diversity of students, multi-site classrooms, little opportunity for interaction among students, and unfamiliar technology. Because of these uncertainties, evaluation of…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Data Collection, Distance Education, Feedback
Bogdan, Robert C.; Biklen, Sari Knopp – 1998
This introductory level text provides a background for understanding the uses of qualitative research in education, its theoretical and historical underpinnings, and specific methods of educational research. This revised edition places qualitative research into the context of current discussions of research methods and alternative ways of knowing.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Assessment
Kelsey, Kathryn; Steel, Ashley – 2001
This curriculum guide introduces students to the process of scientific research. Through the process of science research, middle school students practice techniques to randomize sampling, control for unwanted effects, and standardize methods so that they can be replicated. Data analysis is taught from a statistical perspective providing students…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Qualitative Research
Donan, Linda – 1997
Basic principles and methods of ethnographic research are outlined for students who may wish to undertake this form of qualitative research. Ethnographic research is defined as a form of study based on observation of human action, discourse, and self-perception, and is suggested as an appropriate form of research when experimental research is…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Data Collection
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Cooper, Paul W. – British Educational Research Journal, 1993
Asserts that the need for precise and detailed procedures in the collection of qualitative data is of paramount importance. Describes qualitative procedures that were used in a research study of teachers' and students' perceptions of effective teaching and learning. (CFR)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Studies
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Herivel, Antoinette – Canadian Review of Art Education: Research and Issues, 1997
Attempts to document the process of being immersed in the discipline of visual art making by presenting excerpts from an artist's studio diary. Includes post-diary commentaries on the excerpts and a discussion of how this process informed the artwork. Includes photographs of artworks produced during this period. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Artists
Books, Marilyn – 1997
A discussion of in-depth interviewing as a method for research on language teaching and learning situates the technique within the continuum of research methodology and differentiates it from quantitative research methods. The strengths and weaknesses of in-depth interviewing are examined, methods of sampling are discussed, and advice on the…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection
Funnell, Robert, Ed. – 1996
This handbook, which was written by researchers with expertise in Australia's technical and further education (TAFE) system, provides background information about the following: approaches to research in vocational education and training (VET); the range of methods normally used in research and their the application to VET; and procedures for…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection