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De Oliveira, Bruno – Qualitative Research Journal, 2023
Purpose: How can people with lived experiences of marginalisation actively participate in contesting their marginalisation? This article aims to review the literature on PAR as a research approach. It will first describe what PAR means and consider this approach's particular features. The paper will go on to explore the advantages, limitations and…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Research Methodology, Program Effectiveness
Youssef, Saoussen S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Since the early 1900s, the traditional thinking about education and school role in the USA has shifted to view schools as non-isolated entities from the larger society where schooling should be re-energized with help from the society, which includes student homes and communities. This mixed approach action research study evolves around improving…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Action Research, Mothers, Parent School Relationship
Jacobs, Lynette; Stals, Ernst L. P.; Leroy, Lieve – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2016
International literacy tests, such as PIRLS show that South African primary school learners compare negatively with their peers in other parts of the world. Added to this, learners in rural schools in the country perform significantly worse than their peers who attend schools in urban areas, with the former learners also having other challenges,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Rural Areas, Libraries
Carney, Kathleen – Online Submission, 2016
This eight-week action research project examined how art can be a possible intervention to memory loss. Five octogenarians with dementia participated in a qualitative phenomenological case study exploring the connections between memory and making art. Various methods of data collection were employed, including survey, interview, artifacts,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Intervention, Memory, Dementia
Nakagawa, Hiroshi – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Since 1995, to allow teachers to organize and instruct in more effective ways, many English as a Second Language (ESL) specialists and researchers have studied the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model and its instructional framework by Echevarria, Vogt, and Short in 2004. By combining strategies and techniques that recognize the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Specialists
Papatga, Erdal; Ersoy, Ali – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2016
The aim of this study was to reveal how reading comprehension skills of elementary fourth graders who have problems in reading comprehension can be improved by means of the SCRATCH program. The study was designed as a participant action research. It was carried out within a 15- week process at an elementary school with middle socio-economic level…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Aslan, Bilge; Seker, Hasan – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
In globally developing education system, technology has made instructional improved in many ways. One of these improvements is the Interactive Response Systems (IRS) that are applied in classroom activities. Therefore, it is "smart" to focus on interactive response systems in learning environment. This study was conducted aiming to focus…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Audience Response Systems, Feedback (Response)
Polnariev, Barnard A.; Jaafar, Reem; Hendrix, Tonya; Morgan, Holly Porter; Khethavath, Praveen; Idrissi, Abderrazak Belkharraz – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
LaGuardia Community College is an international leader recognized for developing and successfully implementing initiatives and educating underserved diverse students. LaGuardia's STEM students are holistically advised by a team of dedicated faculty and staff members from different departments and divisions. As an innovative approach to advisement,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, STEM Education, Academic Advising, Teamwork
Gombert, Karolina; Douglas, Flora; McArdle, Karen; Carlisle, Sandra – Educational Action Research, 2016
This article reflects on ethical limitations and dilemmas encountered during fieldwork of the Foodways and Futures project (2013-2016). Foodways and Futures is a qualitative action research project aimed at exploring the food choices of former homeless young people (aged 16-25) in Aberdeenshire. In Scotland, where over 13,000 young people become…
Descriptors: Ethics, At Risk Persons, Qualitative Research, Action Research
Ellis, Raquel – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Desert Elementary is a suburban Phoenix K-5 school. The school has undergone a significant change in its approach to reading instruction due to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) instructional shift of building knowledge through content rich nonfiction. Teachers implemented this shift in their classrooms through a 16-month professional…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Reading Instruction, Common Core State Standards, Faculty Development
Kahveci, Gul; Serin, Nerguz Bulut – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
Children with learning disabilities are at greater risk of being victims of sexual abuse in schools. This paper discusses 4th year pre-service school counsellors' specific knowledge related to self-confidence and skills to execute the prevention and support processes on the topic of sexual abuse in children with learning disabilities. Qualitative…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Curriculum Design, Case Studies, Children
Schmitz, Lindsey – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2016
This action research sought to evaluate the effect of peer teaching structures across subgroups of students differentiated by language and mathematical skill ability. These structures were implemented in an effort to maintain mathematical rigor while building my students' academic language capacity. More specifically, the study investigated peer…
Descriptors: Action Research, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 2
Zamberlan, Lisa; Wilson, Stephanie E. – Journal of Peer Learning, 2017
This paper reports on an action research project involving the redesign, implementation and evaluation of a peer tutor program in a first year design studio in higher education. The effectiveness of the revised program, particularly its capacity to support learning for commencing students in the environment of a creative studio, is examined…
Descriptors: Action Research, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Design
Trexler, Deborah A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
As military connected students transition, the scope and sequencing of courses and expectations for standardized testing is often inconsistent and unpredictable. Military leaders work diligently with education agencies to develop programs and legislature which levels the playing field for these students in order to provide them the most…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Armed Forces, Study Skills, Test Wiseness
King, Terron A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Over the last decade, higher education has come under intense scrutiny from the government; accrediting agencies in particular have come under fire for a lack of accountability and transparency. Reports from the Commission on the Future of Higher Education and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee served as a driving force for…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Accreditation (Institutions), Program Implementation, Program Improvement