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Critical Issues in Research Design in Action Research in an SME Development Context
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McGrath, Helen; O'Toole, Thomas – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: The main aim of this paper is to develop guidelines on the critical issues to consider in research design in an action research (AR) environment for SME network capability development. Design/methodology/approach: The issues in research design for AR studies are developed from the authors' experience in running learning sets but, in…
Descriptors: Research Design, Action Research, Research Methodology, Data Analysis
Toward A Theory of Construct Definition.
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Stenner, A. Jackson; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1983
In an attempt to restore the symmetry and balance between the study of person and item variation, this paper presents a novel methodology construct specification equations, which allows one to ascertain from the lawful behavior of items what an instrument is measuring. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Measurement Objectives, Measurement Techniques, Research Methodology, Test Construction
Psychometric Implications of the Unit-of-Analysis "Problem" (With Examples from the Measurement of Organizational Climate). A Study of Schooling in the United States. Technical Report Series, No. 3.
Sirotnik, Kenneth A. – 1979
The thesis of this paper is that the decision to use one of three approaches to unit-of-analysis in educational research should be based on substantive considerations, not statistical factors. In addition to the commonly used "total analysis" (regression analysis across individuals), the within and between analyses are inherent in the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Correlation, Educational Research, Interaction