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Direct linkAdam Gamoran; Kenne Dibner – National Academies Press, 2022
In 2002 Congress passed the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA), authorizing the creation of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) as the research, evaluation, statistics, and assessment arm of the Department of Education, and crystallizing the federal government's commitment to providing national leadership in expanding fundamental…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Public Agencies, Federal Government, Grants
Nugent, Gwen C., Ed.; Kunz, Gina M., Ed.; Sheridan, Susan M., Ed.; Glover, Todd A., Ed.; Knoche, Lisa L., Ed. – Springer, 2016
This volume represents current and futuristic thinking of seminal rural education researchers, with the goal of providing perspectives and directions to inform the work of rural education research, practice, and policy. With an emphasis on leveraging collaboration among key rural education stakeholders, this title both outlines our current…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Researchers, Educational Research, Stakeholders
Didion, Catherine; Fortenberry, Norman L.; Cady, Elizabeth – National Academies Press, 2012
On August 8-12, 2010 the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), convened the Colloquy on Minority Males in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), following the release of several reports highlighting the educational challenges facing minority males. The NSF recognized the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Males, Minority Group Students, Federal Programs
Dooly, Melinda; O'Dowd, Robert – Peter Lang Bern, 2012
This book provides an accessible introduction to some of the methods and theoretical approaches for investigating foreign language (FL) interaction and exchange in online environments. Research approaches which can be applied to Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) are outlined, followed by discussion of the way in which tools and techniques for…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Action Research, Research Methodology
Ball, Arnetha, Ed.; Tyson, Cynthia A., Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Studying Diversity in Teacher Education" is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done to address these issues. Second, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Student Diversity, Cultural Pluralism
Freeman, James E.; Rubenstein, Albert H. – 1974
At a 1973 workshop held in Denver, Colorado, 21 participants familiar with the uses of Scientific and Technical Information (STI) services gathered to identify the system's major research needs. Initially, 50 research projects were suggested in the areas of design, management, operations, marketing, and global considerations. Using a priority…
Descriptors: Conferences, Information Science, Research, Research Design
Patton, Michael Quinn – 1975
This monograph is one of a continuing series initiated to provide materials for teachers, parents, school administrators, and governmental decision-makers that might encourage reexamination of a range of evaluation issues and perspectives about schools and schooling. This monograph is a description and analysis of two contrasting paradigms: one…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Educational Research, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Lewis, Michael, Ed.; Feiring, Candice, Ed. – 1998
The problems of studying families arise from the difficulty in studying systems in which there are multiple elements interacting with each other and with the child. This book attests to the growing sophistication of the conceptualization and measurement techniques for understanding family processes. Chapters in the first part of the book,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Rearing, Children
Bander, Edward J. – 1978
A comprehensive legal research and bibliographic guide to all phases of American law is presented in this book, from law for the laymen to jurisprudence, from how to find a case to Supreme Court research. It is intended for a general audience, and to familiarize the reader with the tools of legal research and education by providing in one…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Court Litigation, Information Needs, Information Seeking
Kitao, S. Kathleen – 1989
A discussion of schema theory as it relates to the learning of English as a Second Language reviews related research and its implications for classroom instruction. The first section looks at schema theory in general and content schemata in particular, focusing on how they affect reading comprehension. Studies of non-native speakers, schema…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, English (Second Language), Learning Theories, Prior Learning
Couvert, Roger – 1979
Intended as a source of information on matters related to the evaluation of literacy projects, this guide is designed to help evaluators keep a proper perspective on their work by proposing a wide range of options and suggesting directions for evaluations. The first two chapters of the guide deal with the general principles of evaluation and the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Functional Literacy
Newman, Sidney H., Ed.; Thompson, Vaida D., Ed. – 1976
The papers in this book describe significant population research done by psychologists from 1972 to 1975. It is hoped that the papers will stimulate more psychologists to become involved in population research and inspire those now in the field. The book begins with an overview of the development of population psychology. The remainder of the book…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Essays, Needs, Population Distribution
Moran, Michael G., Ed.; Journet, Debra, Ed. – 1985
The essays in this volume enunciate the pressing need for a theoretical framework for the study of technical communication. The first part of the volume provides an overview of extensive ways to study technical communication. Subsequent chapters discuss humanistic approaches to technical communication, the history of technical communication,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Business Communication, Business Correspondence, Communication Research
Kellams, Samuel E. – 1974
The purpose of this paper is to suggest the kinds of research that would be most suitable for community college faculty members and to illustrate these, where possible, from actual examples of ongoing research efforts, or, alternatively, from hypothetical examples. Some of the benefits and potential benefits in the area of student development,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Research, Library Research, Noninstructional Responsibility
Hirsch, Paul M., Ed.; And Others – 1977
Each of the three sections of this book highlights a basic concept in communication research that needs more attention, and includes individual articles that review or apply new methods for the study of social communication. The first part deals with organizational analysis and field studies, and reminds its readers that mass communication is not…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Conceptual Schemes
