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Wells, Ryan S.; Kolek, Ethan A.; Williams, Elizabeth A.; Saunders, Daniel B. – Journal of Higher Education, 2015
This study replicates and extends a 2004 content analysis of three major higher education journals. The original study examined the methodological characteristics of all published research in these journals from 1996 to 2000, recommending that higher education programs adjust their graduate training to better match the heavily quantitative and…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Higher Education, Journal Articles, Educational Research
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Heyvaert, Mieke; Hannes, Karin; Maes, Bea; Onghena, Patrick – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2013
In several subdomains of the social, behavioral, health, and human sciences, research questions are increasingly answered through mixed methods studies, combining qualitative and quantitative evidence and research elements. Accordingly, the importance of including those primary mixed methods research articles in systematic reviews grows. It is…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Quality Control
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Sotos, Ana Elisa Castro; Vanhoof, Stijn; Van den Noortgate, Wim; Onghena, Patrick – Educational Research Review, 2007
A solid understanding of "inferential statistics" is of major importance for designing and interpreting empirical results in any scientific discipline. However, students are prone to many misconceptions regarding this topic. This article structurally summarizes and describes these misconceptions by presenting a systematic review of publications…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Research Methodology, Statistical Inference, Statistics
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Fairgrieve, George W.; Eisner, Elliot W. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1977
Reviews and criticizes papers by Rist, Fienberg, and Erickson in this issue of the Quarterly. (JM)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Educational Research, Ethnology, Models
Krug, Samuel E. – 1992
Uses of quantitative research for studying the relationship between school leadership and educational reform are discussed in this paper. Perceived inadequacies of quantitative methods are that such methods are inadequate for dealing with real-life complex phenomena, and that they require degrees of control that cannot be realistically achieved.…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Leadership, Qualitative Research
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Fienberg, Stephen E. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1977
Concludes that in addition to using multivariate methods to analyze their data, investigators need to begin thinking in terms of large-scale randomized controlled field trails (i.e., experiments). One of the challenges for the ethnographic educational researcher is to demonstrate the superiority of the anthropological field method over the more…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Educational Research, Ethnology, Evaluation Methods
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Henning, Grant – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Clarifies and defines quantitative research as it is applied to the study of language acquisition. Trends in the use of quantitative and nonquantitative methods in applied linguistics are reported, and suggestions are made concerning useful paradigms and procedures for further research in language acquisition. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Evaluation Methods, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Saffer, Shelley – 1984
A systematic analysis of dissertation research on stress in educational administration, using a sample of 44 dissertations completed from 1969 to 1982, inventoried these studies' topics, evaluated their conception, design, and methodology, and synthesized their findings. It was found that the bulk of the dissertation literature has focused on the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Administration, Educational Research
Ganske, Ludwig – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1981
Reviews research studies on note-taking and identifies possible questions for future research in that area. A case is made for the inclusion of such studies within the domain of educational technology research. A 49 item bibliography is attached. (MER)
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Research Design
CHASTAIN, KENNETH – 1967
GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF INFERENTIAL STATISTICAL METHODS AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN WOULD ENABLE LANGUAGE TEACHERS TO INTERPRET OBJECTIVELY AVAILABLE RESEARCH REPORTS AND HOPEFULLY WOULD ENCOURAGE MORE EXPERIMENTATION. TO UNDERSTAND THE EXPERIMENTAL PROCESS, EDUCATORS MUST REALIZE THAT ANY EXPERIMENT IS AS SUCCESSFUL AS THE EXPERIMENTER IS IN…
Descriptors: Discriminant Analysis, Educational Researchers, Experiments, Hypothesis Testing
Cooley, William W. – 1978
The state of the art in observational studies is discussed, with emphasis on explanatory research--studies of program effectiveness in which an attempt is made to explain the reasons for the results as well as describing the results. In addition to the collection of data and presentation of statistical facts, the explanatory study involves the…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Hypothesis Testing, Models
Cartwright, Desmond S.; And Others – 1973
The task group report presented in this publication is one of a series prepared by eminent psychologists who have served as consultants in the U.S.O.E.-sponsored grant study to conduct a Critical Appraisal of the Personality-Emotions-Motivation Domain. In order to achieve the goal of identifying important problems and areas for new research and…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Science Research, Individual Characteristics, Personality Assessment
Black, F. S.; Black, Ruby Lindsey – 1981
The theoretical relationships between employee job satisfaction and employee behavior, and the factors that influence job satisfaction among nurses are considered, along with the type of research that should be conducted on this topic. Although major contributions to the theory of human needs have been made by Maslow and by Herzberg, the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Job Performance, Job Satisfaction, Motivation
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Tague-Sutcliffe, Jean – Information Processing and Management, 1992
This overview of the research process for the novice information retrieval (IR) researcher provides guidance on selecting a research question, choosing the type of test, defining variables, developing or using databases, finding and processing queries, assigning treatments to experimental units, collecting and analyzing the data, and presenting…
Descriptors: Databases, Efficiency, Experiments, Information Retrieval
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Leonard, David K.; Prewitt, Kenneth – 1971
This essay presents some of the possibilities for doing systematic quantitative research in the field of African public administration and reviews some of the methodological problems involved. The authors argue that quantitative research is especially desirable because of the gains to be achieved in precision, reliability, comparability, and new…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Developing Nations, Field Studies
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