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Strohmaier, Anselm R.; MacKay, Kelsey J.; Obersteiner, Andreas; Reiss, Kristina M. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2020
Eye tracking is an increasingly popular method in mathematics education. While the technology has greatly evolved in recent years, there is a debate about the specific benefits that eye tracking offers and about the kinds of insights it may allow. The aim of this review is to contribute to this discussion by providing a comprehensive overview of…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Mathematics Education, Educational Research, Research Methodology
Data Quality Procedures in Survey Research: An Analysis and Framework for Doctoral Program Curricula
Burleson, James; Bott, Gregory J.; Carter, Michelle; Sarabadani, Jalal – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2023
To ensure validity in survey research, it is imperative that we properly educate doctoral students on best practices in data quality procedures. A 14-year analysis of 679 studies in the AIS "Basket of 8" journals noted undercommunication in the most pertinent procedures, consistent across journals and time. Given recent calls for…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Surveys
Pangeni, Shesha Kanta – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
Evolution of technology and its tremendous use in education has changed the ways of educational services in higher education around the world. There is worldwide access to higher education through virtual learning environments. This is a new avenue for 21st century education and within a short time, it has been able to establish new culture of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Electronic Learning, Research Methodology, Research Problems
Lloyd, Natalie J.; Lewthwaite, Brian Ellis; Osborne, Barry; Boon, Helen J. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This paper presents a review of the literature pertaining to the teacher actions that influence Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander student learning outcomes. This review investigates two foci: the identification of teacher actions influencing learning outcomes for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students and the methodological…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Best Practices, Instructional Effectiveness, Pacific Islanders
An Update of Transformative Learning Theory: A Critical Review of the Empirical Research (1999-2005)
Taylor, Edward W. – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2007
The last significant review of research about transformative learning was in 1998 and was mostly focused on unpublished dissertations. In response, this paper reviews an exhaustive body of research conducted since that time, involving 40 studies, published in peer-review journals with a lens of analysis of new findings and insights on…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Doctoral Dissertations, Transformative Learning, Meta Analysis
Kano, Megumi; Franke, Todd; Afifi, Abdelmonem A.; Bourque, Linda B. – Educational Researcher, 2008
To ensure accurate interpretation of research findings, researchers should report details about their research design, data collection method, and response rates when presenting findings from survey research. A review of 100 peer-reviewed articles reporting the results of survey research on K-12 schools with principals as the designated…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, School Surveys, Mail Surveys, Case Studies
Byers, Peggy Yuhas; Wilcox, James R. – 1988
Communication scholars should be skilled in the use of focus groups in communication research and in interpreting the data this approach generates. The focus group is a discussion group that concentrates on a particular topic or topics and typically consists of eight to 12 participants. The group is facilitated by a moderator who follows a…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Discussion Groups

Wilkinson, Leland – Counseling Psychologist, 1999
Highlights effective graphical methods for screening and cleaning data, exploring and identifying models, and displaying data in counseling-psychology publications. Argues that graphs are not ancillary to scientific publications but are essential and, in some cases, sufficient expositions of results. (Author/GCP)
Descriptors: Counseling Psychology, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Graphs
Morscheck, Thomas Lee – 1986
Individual marital therapy (IMT) is therapy in which one or both spouses are treated separately by different therapists who do not communicate with each other about treatment. Gurman and Kniskern (1978) reported an improvement rate of 48% and a deterioration rate of 11.6% for nonbehavioral IMT. These outcome data and the conclusions drawn from…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Data Interpretation, Evaluation Criteria, Individual Counseling
Slater, Michael D. – 1989
The use of messages as experimental stimuli brings with it problems regarding the interpretability and generalizability of findings. Some psychologists and communication researchers have argued that message stimuli must be treated as random effects. A review of the literature examined data regarding experimental designs used in recent…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Data Interpretation, Higher Education, Literature Reviews

Samuels, S. Jay – Exceptional Children, 1987
The article examines reasons for discrepant findings in two studies of attention differences in learning disabled students, focusing on four interacting factors in experimental research: task, materials, context, and subject characteristics. It is suggested that attentional deficits are not necessarily the underlying problem for all students with…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Cognitive Processes, Data Interpretation, Exceptional Child Research

Krishnan, Parmeswara – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Comments on some methodological limitations of the research base of "The Bell Curve": blind use of the normal distribution (bell curve); avoidance of nonnormal statistical distributions, which are more appropriate for some social and economic characteristics; copious use of percentiles and quintiles, inappropriate with nonnormal…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Intelligence Quotient, Multivariate Analysis, Research Methodology
Wu, D. W. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science & Technology, 2006
The 2000 US presidential election between Al Gore and George W. Bush has been the most intriguing and controversial in American history. Using the Florida ballot data, Wu showed that the 2000 election result could have been reversed had the "butterfly ballot effect" been eliminated. Through a combinatorial approach, Harger concluded that…
Descriptors: United States History, Voting, Elections, Political Candidates
Roberts, Susan M. – 1991
This paper explores the issues surrounding the study of higher education, usually involving the analysis of structural-functionalism, to less tradition-bound areas representing idealism. It examines these issues through the theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism which, it is noted, rests in the interpretive paradigm. The paper begins…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education

Brown, Roy I. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1998
Illustrates some of the changes in research practice associated with and exemplified by quality-of-life studies. Examples of research development in Down syndrome involving quality-of-life concepts are briefly described, indicating the way that quality-of-life studies can affect aims, direction, structure, and interpretation of research.…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Data Interpretation, Disabilities