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Miner-Romanoff, Karen – Qualitative Report, 2012
The critical and interpretive phenomenological approach is underutilized in the study of crime. This commentary describes this approach, guided by the question, "Why are interpretive phenomenological methods appropriate for qualitative research in criminology?" Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to describe a model of the interpretive…
Descriptors: Crime, Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Phenomenology
Loshbaugh, Heidi; Streveler, Ruth; Breaux, Kimberley – Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (NJ1), 2007
The Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education was founded in 2003 with five collaborating institutions. A multi-institutional, multi-year grant offers many opportunities for the demands of reality to interfere with design goals. In particular, at Colorado School of Mines (CSM) student demographics required adjustment of the original APS…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Research Design, Research Methodology, Program Implementation
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Hannan, Michael T.; Tuma, Nancy Brandon – 1978
This document introduces research aimed to explore methods that could be used to make inferences about causual effects of educational change over time when data are from an educational panel. This preface, the first in a series of 14 chapters described in SO 011 760-772, discusses an educational research project designed to examine affects of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Change, Longitudinal Studies
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Strachota, Elaine M.; Conceicao, Simone C. O.; Schmidt, Steven W. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2006
This article describes the use of a schematic model for developing and distributing online surveys. Two empirical studies that developed and implemented online surveys to collect data to measure satisfaction in various aspects of human resource development and adult education exemplify the use of the model to conduct online survey research. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Research Methodology, Human Resources, Online Surveys
Cline, Hugh F.; Feldmesser, Robert A. – 1983
This handbook has been prepared to address one specific problem: How can the techniques of program evaluation be effectively applied to produce useful information about the operations and impact of moral education programs in secondary schools? The handbook is divided into five chapters. The introductory chapter describes the background and…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Objectives, Essay Tests, Ethical Instruction
Shaycoft, Marion F. – 1977
In 1959, the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the University of Pittsburgh selected a stratified random probability sample of all secondary schools (public, parochial, and private) in the United States, tested all their students in grades 9-12 with a two-day battery of aptitude tests, information tests, tests of ability and achievement,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Biographical Inventories, Career Choice