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Vimala Judy Kamalodeen – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
This case study focuses on issues and dilemmas I faced when collecting data on a social networking site that enabled sociability, communication, and collaboration among teachers. To understand teacher online participation, I used an eclectic mixed-methods design with three phases to collect qualitative and quantitative data. This design allowed me…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Research Methodology, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication
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Simpson, Adrian – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
University league tables give the image that there is a single dimension along which institutions can be placed. Most derive rankings from an aggregate score of multiple items, which often include opinion responses which has the potential to introduce sampling bias. This paper explores what happens when the two issues of dimensionality and…
Descriptors: Universities, Rating Scales, Achievement Rating, Bias
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Ersanli, Ercümend; Mameghani, Shiva Saeighi – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
In the present study, the Tolerance Scale developed by Ersanli (2014) was adapted to the Iranian culture, and its validity and reliability were investigated in the case of Iranian college students. The participants consisted of 552 Iranian college students (62% male, M = 20.84, S.D.: 1.53) selected using the convenience sampling method. The sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Construct Validity, Reliability
Tarver, Walter L., III. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This quantitative comparative research study examines the career maturity of student-athletes in comparison to non-athletes at a Division I university. The study also measures differences in career maturity among student-athletes based on gender, class level, race/ethnicity, by sport, by type of sport (revenue/non-revenue), and professional sports…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Athletes, Team Sports, Attitude Measures
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Bulut, Berker; Ertem, Ihsan Seyit – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The purpose of this research is describing and comparing the listening-comprehension strategies used by the students who are identified as successful and less successful about listening. In the research, the case study pattern was used among the qualitative research approaches. In the study, different situations of each student within the same…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Elementary School Students, Case Studies
Doroudi, Shayan; Aleven, Vincent; Brunskill, Emma – Grantee Submission, 2017
The gold standard for identifying more effective pedagogical approaches is to perform an experiment. Unfortunately, frequently a hypothesized alternate way of teaching does not yield an improved effect. Given the expense and logistics of each experiment, and the enormous space of potential ways to improve teaching, it would be highly preferable if…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Matrices, Evaluation Methods, Models
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Juliyatmi, Rihul Husnul; Handayani, Lina – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2015
Menarche is the first menstrual period as one of the sign of puberty. There are many factors may affect the age at menarche such as nutritional status, genetic, environmental conditions, socioeconomic status, and education. The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between nutritional status and age of menarche on female…
Descriptors: Females, Physiology, Nutrition, Junior High School Students
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2016
This document provides step-by-step instructions on how to complete the Study Review Guide (SRG, Version S3, V2) for single-case designs (SCDs). Reviewers will complete an SRG for every What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) review. A completed SRG should be a reviewer's independent assessment of the study, relative to the criteria specified in the review…
Descriptors: Guides, Research Design, Research Methodology, Program Evaluation
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Ilic, Ulas; Haseski, Halil Ibrahim; Tugtekin, Ufuk – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2018
The current study aimed to review studies on computational thinking (CT) indexed in Web of Science (WOS) and ERIC databases. A thorough search in electronic databases revealed 96 studies on computational thinking which were published between 2006 and 2016. Studies were exposed to a quantitative content analysis through using an article control…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Educational Trends, Periodicals, Databases
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Gu, Fei; Preacher, Kristopher J.; Ferrer, Emilio – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2014
Mediation is a causal process that evolves over time. Thus, a study of mediation requires data collected throughout the process. However, most applications of mediation analysis use cross-sectional rather than longitudinal data. Another implicit assumption commonly made in longitudinal designs for mediation analysis is that the same mediation…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Models, Research Design, Case Studies
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Chhabra, Simmi; Bose, Kabita; Chadha, Neerja – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate perspectives of Early Childhood Educators (ECEds) about inclusion of Children With Special Needs (CWSN) by examining their attitudes, training needs, and inclusive practices used in the inclusive classroom. One hundred twenty-eight ECEds completed a questionnaire that included the Scale of Teachers'…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Improvement, Inclusion
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Beres, Jacqueline L.; Dixon, Jess C. – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2016
Although previous studies have offered empirical and anecdotal support for academic mentoring, there are still considerable gaps in understanding the specific actions or components that are present in these relationships. Research has shown that academic faculty mentors provide all of Kram's (1988) mentoring functions to their graduate student…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Mentors, Friendship
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Salami, I. A.; Okeke, C. I. O. – Perspectives in Education, 2017
The quest to contextualise education in Africa has been on-going for a while and many countries have been making efforts towards it. During this time of educational review, conscious efforts should be made to identify problematic levels of some subjects that are dreadful to the learners to pave the way for curriculum re-design for context…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Sustainable Development, Curriculum Design, Mathematics Achievement
Imbens, Guido W.; Rubin, Donald B. – Cambridge University Press, 2015
Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment were changed? In this groundbreaking text, two world-renowned experts present statistical methods for studying such questions. This book starts with the notion of potential outcomes, each corresponding…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Statistical Inference, Statistics, Social Sciences
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Abdulahi, Mohammed Mussa; Hashim, Hakim; Kawo, Mohammed – Educational Research and Reviews, 2017
The purpose of this action research is to improve the achievement of students in general and, to examine the perception of students and teachers about cooperative learning, to identify major factors affecting the implementation of cooperative learning and to identify the possible strategies used to improve cooperative learning in Madawalabu…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Natural Resources, Cooperative Learning, Achievement Gains
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