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Zimmerman, Aaron Samuel; Kim, Jeong-Hee – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2017
Narrative inquiry has been a popular methodology in different disciplines for the last few decades. Using stories, narrative inquiry illuminates lived experience, serving as a valuable complement to research methodologies that are rooted in positivist epistemologies. In this article, we present a brief introduction to narrative inquiry including…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Data Collection
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Shaw, Ian; Lunt, Neil – Social Work Research, 2012
The authors draw on a case study evaluation of two networked cohorts of practitioner-researchers in a children's services national social work agency in one of the home countries of the United Kingdom. The aim of the present study was to understand the meaning of practitioner research for social work professionals through an exploration of how…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Social Work
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Zientek, Linda Reichwein; Ozel, Z. Ebrar Yetkiner; Ozel, Serkan; Allen, Jeff – Career and Technical Education Research, 2012
Confidence intervals (CIs) and effect sizes are essential to encourage meta-analytic thinking and to accumulate research findings. CIs provide a range of plausible values for population parameters with a degree of confidence that the parameter is in that particular interval. CIs also give information about how precise the estimates are. Comparison…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Effect Size, Intervals, Self Esteem
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Pachana, Nancy A.; Brilleman, Sam L.; Dobson, Annette J. – Psychological Assessment, 2011
The number of life events reported by study participants is sensitive to the method of data collection and time intervals under consideration. Individual characteristics also influence reporting; respondents with poor mental health report more life events. Much current research on life events is cross-sectional. Data from a longitudinal study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experience, Females, Individual Characteristics
Reid, Alan – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2003
The field of environmental education research has been moving away from scientistic and positivistic discourses for some time now ("Environmental Education Research," 2000; Hart & Nolan, 1999). However, it has been noted that the meta-discourse about this research continues to draw on their framings, registers, and lexicons (Hart, 2000;…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, Meta Analysis