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Keogh, Barbara K.; MacMillan, Donald L. – Exceptional Education Quarterly, 1983
Sampling problems related to the use of system-identified subjects in special education research are considered. Differences in criteria and selection of mildly handicapped students have resulted in limited generalizability of findings. Among suggested approaches are using rationally defined subgroups, cluster analysis, and marker variables.…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Mild Disabilities, Research Methodology

Crowley, E. Paula – Exceptionality, 1995
Guidelines for the implementation of qualitative methods in special education research are offered, addressing rigor, sample selection, data collection, and data management/analysis. Five possible pitfalls are identified, including the quantitative-qualitative methods debate, premature data collection, the tendency to use a linear procedural…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Disabilities, Educational Research
Dzierlenga, Donna; Friedlander, Jack – 1981
Practical information is provided, in a question and answer format, for community college officials who are planning to conduct a community needs assessment. A brief discussion of the usefulness of needs assessment surveys to the college planning process is followed by descriptions of eight steps to be followed in planning and conducting a survey:…
Descriptors: Bias, Community Colleges, Community Needs, Community Study
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor; Morris, Lynn Lyons – 1978
The evaluation design, which prescribes when and from whom to gather data, is described as significant because it can lend credibility to evaluation results. The objectives of this booklet are to aid the evaluator in: choosing a design; putting it into operation; and analyzing and reporting the data. Examples include both formative and summative…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Control Groups, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Nickel, K. N. – 1979
The failure of educational research to fully allow for limitations in methodology when drawing conclusions is faulted. In addition to this, a failure on the part of the media--educational and other--to fully publicize these limitations is also criticized. Methodological shortcomings of the 1977-78 American Institutes of Research (AIR) study of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Control Groups, Data Collection

Brown, Lynne Harrington, Ed.; Kidwell, Jeannie S., Ed. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1982
Examines in 13 articles, three areas of change in family research methodology. Considers major determinants of change in the subject matter of family studies. Addresses the central measurement problem of family studies, i.e., relationships. Presents illustrative examples of the advancement of research technologies in family studies. (RC)
Descriptors: Change, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Family (Sociological Unit)
Berty, Ernest – 1979
This publication is primarily designed for educational practitioners who possess little or no training in conducting mail surveys or have not kept current on the present state of the art of survey methods and techniques. It is also intended to be a checking and comparing aid to ensure that important research considerations are taken into account.…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Computer Science, Cost Estimates, Data Analysis
Kirsch, Irwin; Yamamoto, Kentaro; Norris, Norma; Rock, Donald; Jungeblut, Ann; O'Reilly, Patricia; Berlin, Martha; Mohadjer, Leyla; Waksberg, Joseph; Goksel, Huseyin; Burke, John; Rieger, Susan; Green, James; Klein, Merle; Campbell, Anne; Jenkins, Lynn; Kolstad, Andrew; Mosenthal, Peter; Baldi, Stephane – 2001
Chapter 1 of this report and user's manual describes design and implementation of the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS). Chapter 2 reviews stages of sampling for national and state survey components; presents weighted and unweighted response rates for the household component; and describes non-incentive and prison sample designs. Chapter…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Data Processing, Educational Research