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Kearney, Christopher A.; Childs, Joshua – Preventing School Failure, 2023
School attendance/absenteeism (SA/A) is a crucial indicator of health and development in youth but educational policies and health-based practices in this area rely heavily on a simple metric of physical presence or absence in a school setting. SA/A data suffer from problems of quality (reliability, construct validity, data integrity) and utility…
Descriptors: Attendance, Educational Policy, Health, Improvement
Piattoeva, Nelli; Saari, Antti – Journal of Education Policy, 2022
The article focuses on infrastructures as heterogeneous assemblages. Our claim is that to examine something as elusive as data infrastructure calls for an epistemological and methodological approach consistent with the fluid ontology of the object of study. Moreover, we assert that there is no position of exteriority from which to critique data…
Descriptors: Data, Research Methodology, Organization, Criticism
Cheryl Burleigh; Andrea M. Wilson – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2024
With the advent of readily accessible generative artificial intelligence (GAI), a concern exists within the academic community that research data collected in the context of conducting doctoral dissertation research is authentic. The purpose of the present study was to explore the role of GAI in the production of new research paying particular…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Data Collection, Doctoral Dissertations, Research Methodology
Seda Sakar; Sema Tan – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2025
Many articles have been published in gifted education in recent years. This study aims to provide a comprehensive review of the evolution of academic studies in gifted education. In this context, the structural topic modeling (STM) method was used to analyze the topics and trends in the field. STM is a machine learning technique that utilizes…
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Educational Trends, Educational Research, Research Methodology
Kesim, Eren – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2020
This study covers 117 masters and 28 doctorate theses published between 1999-2019 in Turkey for a total of 145 theses on distance learning administration. Due to the goal of analyzing graduate theses published in the field of distance learning administration in Turkey between the years of 1999-2019, qualitative research method was used in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Administration, Masters Theses
Hanita, Makoto; Bailey, Jessica; Khanani, Noman; Zhang, Xinxin – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2021
This applied research methods report is a guide for state and local education agency policymakers and their analysts who are interested in studying teacher mobility and retention. This report is the second in a two-part set and builds on the foundational information in report 1. This report presents guidance on how to interpret differences in…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Educational Research, Research Methodology
Rhona Stallard; Emeritus Noírín Hayes; Ann Marie Halpenny – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
Current approaches to research in the field of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), in particular in relation to methods designed to interrogate policy and practice developments, tend not to focus on gathering empirical data through collaborative networks. This article provides a critical reflection on a novel qualitative methodological…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Stakeholders, Attitudes
Abuya, Benta; Evans, David; Gulesci, Selim; Haberland, Nicole; Hares, Susannah; Malik, Rabea; Mortara, Alessia; Rose, Pauline – Population Council, 2023
In this report, the authors--a group of researchers who commonly adopt varying research traditions and approaches--have come together to outline some crucial next steps to advance the research agenda on girls' education. The authors propose five areas where researchers can better collaborate to advance the field, and they call for better…
Descriptors: Womens Education, Females, Educational Research, Researchers
Lingard, Bob – European Educational Research Journal, 2022
This paper provides an account of the topological and its description of contemporary culture and use as a research methodology, a topological lens, generally, and in education research specifically. Some commentary is proffered on the relationships between the topological and the topographical, between relations and locations. A critical account…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Research Methodology, Data Analysis, Time
Rodriguez, Olga; Cuellar-Mejia, Marisol; Johnson, Hans – Public Policy Institute of California, 2016
This document presents the technical appendices that accompany the full report, "Determining College Readiness in California's Community Colleges: A Survey of Assessment and Placement Policies." The appendices include: (1) Survey Design and Administration; and (2) Survey Instrument. [This report was written with research support from…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Community Colleges, Educational Policy, Student Evaluation
Vriesema, Christine Calderon; Gehlbach, Hunter – Educational Researcher, 2021
Education researchers use surveys widely. Yet, critics question respondents' ability to provide high-quality responses. As schools increasingly use student surveys to drive local policy making, respondents' (lack of) motivation to provide quality responses may threaten the wisdom of using questionnaires for data-based decision making. To better…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Research Methodology, Student Surveys
Wang, Yinying – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
Despite abundant data and increasing data availability brought by technological advances, there has been very limited education policy studies that have capitalized on big data--characterized by large volume, wide variety, and high velocity. Drawing on the recent progress of using big data in public policy and computational social science…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Research, Misconceptions, Barriers
Huber, Stephan Gerhard; Helm, Christoph – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2020
The crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus has far-reaching effects in the field of education, as schools were closed in March 2020 in many countries around the world. In this article, we present and discuss the School Barometer, a fast survey (in terms of reaction time, time to answer and dissemination time) that was conducted in Germany, Austria…
Descriptors: Disease Control, School Closing, Educational Policy, Surveys
Eide, Eric R.; Showalter, Mark H. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
Professors Richard J. Murnane and John B. Willett set out to capitalize on recent developments in education data and methodology by attempting to answer the following questions: How can new methods and data be applied most effectively in educational and social science research? What kinds of research designs are most appropriate? What kinds of…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Research Methodology, Audiences, Usability
Gorur, Radhika – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
The OECD's international education indicators have become very influential in contemporary education policies. Although these indicators are now routinely, annually published in the form of "Education at a Glance," the calculability upon which the indicators depend was an achievement that involved the mobilisation of a huge machinery of…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Data Collection, Sociology, International Cooperation