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Rohlfing, Ingo; Zuber, Christina Isabel – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
Theories of causation in philosophy ask what makes causal claims true and establish the so-called truth conditions allowing one to separate causal from noncausal relationships. We argue that social scientists should be aware of truth conditions of causal claims because they imply which method of causal inference can establish whether a specific…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Research Methodology, Influences, Theories
Newman, Eryn J.; Garry, Maryanne; Unkelbach, Christian; Bernstein, Daniel M.; Lindsay, D. Stephen; Nash, Robert A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
When people rapidly judge the truth of claims presented with or without related but nonprobative photos, the photos tend to inflate the subjective truth of those claims--a "truthiness" effect (Newman et al., 2012). For example, people more often judged the claim "Macadamia nuts are in the same evolutionary family as peaches" to…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Accuracy, Cognitive Processes, Photography
Effects of the Just One Mentoring Program on Student Persistence at Milwaukee Area Technical College
Palmer, Emma – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This dissertation investigated the effects of the intervention of the Just One Mentoring Program on student persistence in completing their career programs. The population for this study consisted of a heterogeneous group of students enrolled in the Just One Mentoring Program during summer 2003 through fall 2006 at a community college located in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Academic Persistence, Technical Institutes
Cantu, Brenda A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In their studies on student motivation in the 1990s, Gorham & Christophel and Christophel & Gorham found that students perceived their own demotivation to be caused by instructor behaviors. While there are studies that explore the topic of student demotivation and other studies that illustrate the great influence instructors have on…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Degrees, Student Motivation, Teacher Behavior
Kerrigan, Monica Reid – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2014
This convergent parallel design mixed methods case study of four community colleges explores the relationship between organizational capacity and implementation of data-driven decision making (DDDM). The article also illustrates purposive sampling using replication logic for cross-case analysis and the strengths and weaknesses of quantitizing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Mixed Methods Research, Case Studies, Data
Lane, Ciara; Stynes, Martin; O'Donoghue, John – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2014
The image of mathematics held by Irish post-primary students was examined and a model for the image found was constructed. Initially, a definition for "image of mathematics" was adopted with image of mathematics hypothesized as comprising attitudes, beliefs, self-concept, motivation, emotions and past experiences of mathematics. Research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Mathematics, Secondary School Students
Lavender, Julie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Military health care facilities make extensive use of computer-based training (CBT) for both clinical and non-clinical staff. Despite evidence identifying various factors that may impact CBT, the problem is unclear as to what factors specifically influence employee participation in computer-based training. The purpose of this mixed method case…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Armed Forces, Health Services, Health Facilities
Gomez Arizaga, Maria P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The popular belief that has been held for many years has been that students who have been identified as gifted would succeed academically in college because of their previous success in high school. However, in countries with a disadvantaged and unequal school system, one that is stratified according to groups' socioeconomic status, such as Chile,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, College Students, Academic Persistence
Sullivan, Terri N.; Sutherland, Kevin S.; Lotze, Geri M.; Helms, Sarah W.; Wright, Stephen A.; Ulmer, Lisa J. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2015
A mixed methods approach was used to identify problem situations in peer and school contexts experienced by urban middle school students with high incidence disabilities that may impact their emotional and behavioral adjustment. A survey and semi-structured interview were conducted with a predominantly African American sample (95%) of 74…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Urban Schools, Middle School Students, Disabilities
Kyndt, Eva; Govaerts, Natalie; Claes, Trees; De La Marche, Jens; Dochy, Filip – Studies in Continuing Education, 2013
The current research starts from the observation that low-qualified employees hold a vulnerable position on the labour market. It has been argued that learning and development can decrease this vulnerability; unfortunately research has shown that low-qualified employees participate considerably less in learning activities in comparison with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Motivation, Mixed Methods Research, Labor Market
Papaioannou, Photos; Charalambous, Kyriacos – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
This study explores the Cyprus primary school principals' attitudes towards Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as well as their perceptions about the factors that facilitate or inhibit ICT integration in primary schools in Cyprus. A sequential mixed method approach was used to answer the research questions that guided this study.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Administrator Attitudes, Barriers, Influences
Tsai, Fu-Hsing; Yu, Kuang-Chao; Hsiao, Hsien-Sheng – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This study developed an educational online game, Super Delivery, targeting knowledge about saving electricity, and conducted case studies of eight sixth-grade students using this game to explore the factors influencing the effectiveness of students' knowledge acquisition in digital game-based learning (DGBL). This study followed Miles and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Computer Games, Outcomes of Education
McGill, Monica M. – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2012
Digital games are marketed, mass-produced, and consumed by an increasing number of people and the game industry is only expected to grow. In response, postsecondary institutions in the UK and the U.S. have started to create game degree programs. Though curriculum theorists provide insight into the process of creating a new program, no formal…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups), Computer Games