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Ellen Taylor-Bower; Kate Plaisted-Grant; Stephanie Archer – Educational Action Research, 2025
Drawing upon ongoing research exploring lived experiences of sensory overload, meltdown, and shutdown in autism as a framework, this article reflects on the challenges and benefits of employing participatory methods in doctoral research. In particular, the process of establishing and working with a Research Advisory Group to co-create a…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Participatory Research, Research Design, Research Methodology
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Doyle, Elaine; Buckley, Patrick – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2014
The evolution of enquiry-based teaching and learning has broadened the range of research carried out by university students. As a result, the boundaries between teaching and learning and academic research are being blurred to a degree not experienced heretofore. This paper examines whether research undertaken as part of course work should fall…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Processes, Student Research, Business Administration Education
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de Campos, Andre Luiz – Industry and Higher Education, 2010
The experience of the UK Research Councils in assessing the impacts of their research funding is discussed, including a report on the findings of research which reviewed the impact studies implemented by the Research Councils. The response of the Councils to the challenge of demonstrating the impacts of their funding and the main methodologies…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Foreign Countries, Economic Impact, Research Methodology
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Gibbs, Graham R.; Hall, Christopher – Children & Society, 2007
Policy and practice in child welfare and protection has been significantly influenced by public inquiries or commissions which follow highly publicised child tragedies. Whilst there has been considerable comment on the final reports, there has been little research on the evidence gathered for such inquiries. Large amounts of testimony are…
Descriptors: Evidence, Research Methodology, Child Welfare, Hearings
BOND, GUY L.; DYKSTRA, ROBERT – 1964
A 1964 SUMMER CONFERENCE WAS HELD TO INFORM PROJECT DIRECTORS OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH CENTERS ABOUT INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS IN FIRST-GRADE READING INSTRUCTION. IT WAS DESIGNED TO PRODUCE AWARENESS OF THE PROJECTS, TO GAIN AGREEMENT AND UNIFORMITY IN RESEARCH EFFORTS, TO APPRAISE RESEARCH DESIGNS, AND TO EXPLORE FURTHER PARTICIPATION IN…
Descriptors: Conferences, Cooperative Programs, Grade 1, Reading Instruction
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MacKinnon, David – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1996
In Canada's Exemplary Schools Project, a national committee designed and coordinated 21 case studies. A committee member recounts decisions made about design and method, and highlights differences between method and methodology, as well as variations in conceptualization of qualitative research. Discusses the meaning of "exemplary,"…
Descriptors: Coordination, Educational Research, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
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Alexandrou, Alex; Davis, John Dwyfor – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2005
Following a damning report on the state of police probationer training in England and Wales by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, entitled "Training Matters" (2002), the Home Office (2003), as part of its modernisation programme for the police service, decided that what police officers were required to know and learn to execute…
Descriptors: Police, Foreign Countries, Police Education, Law Enforcement