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Thomas V. Frederick; Susan L. Hastings; Robert Pate – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
This case study is designed to demonstrate lessons learned investigating the integration of faith and learning at a faith-based university in southern California. It describes the use of a social survey to explicitly test a hypothesis related to the influence of having an attachment or vocational perspective on students' perceptions of integration…
Descriptors: Religious Colleges, Universities, Student Attitudes, College Students
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Martin, Taylor; Sherin, Bruce – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2013
The learning sciences community's interest in learning analytics (LA) has been growing steadily over the past several years. Three recent symposia on the theme (at the American Educational Research Association 2011 and 2012 annual conferences, and the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2012), organized by Paulo Blikstein, led…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Learning Processes, Educational Research, Data Collection
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Sun, Qin; Ganesh, Gopala – Journal of Education for Business, 2014
The authors intend to describe the experience of developing and teaching an online marketing research class for master of business administration students. The class has been taught for four fall semesters. Each time, the class also completed an online survey, analyzed the resulting data, and wrote a detailed report for a real client. The course…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Business Administration Education, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
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Moore, Darren; Benham-Clarke, Simon; Kenchington, Ralphy; Boyle, Chris; Ford, Tamsin; Hayes, Rachel; Rogers, Morwenna – Education Endowment Foundation, 2019
This evidence review synthesises the best available international evidence regarding approaches to behaviour in schools to: (1) Produce an overarching model or framework explaining why school pupils may misbehave (Review 1); (2) Review the effectiveness of classroom-based approaches to behaviour trialled in robust research studies (Review 2); and…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Best Practices
Bill, Anthony; Henderson, Sally; Penman, John – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2010
Two test items that examined high school students' beliefs of sample size for large populations using the context of opinion polls conducted prior to national and state elections were developed. A trial of the two items with 21 male and 33 female Year 9 students examined their naive understanding of sample size: over half of students chose a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Test Items, Sample Size, Foreign Countries
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Crooke, Alexander Hew Dale; McFerran, Katrina Skewes – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2014
The potential for music programs to promote psychosocial wellbeing in mainstream schools is recognised in both policy and research literature. Despite this recognition, there is a dearth of consistent research evidence supporting this link. Authors attribute this lack of consistent evidence to limitations in the areas of research design and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Well Being, Psychological Patterns
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Wilder, Esther Isabelle – Teaching Sociology, 2010
Quantitative and computer literacy are increasingly recognized as core components of a liberal education in sociology. This study draws on student, faculty, and alumni questionnaires to identify the kinds of quantitative literacy skills that are perceived to be most critical for students enrolled in sociology courses. Respondents at Lehman College…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Alumni, Sociology, Data Analysis
Moore-Callahan, Tamara Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This research is an interpretive qualitative study that explores the perceptions and perspectives of two generations of African American male students, as related to their educational experiences at the same southeastern New Mexico high school. The central question of this research is, has the educational experience for African American male…
Descriptors: African American Students, Research Methodology, Focus Groups, Academic Achievement
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2010
The Monitoring the Future (MTF) study is an ongoing series of national surveys of American adolescents and adults that has provided the nation with a vital window into the important, but largely hidden, problem behaviors of illegal drug use, alcohol use, tobacco use, anabolic steroid use, and psychotherapeutic drug use. For more than a third of a…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Incidence, Dropouts, Drug Abuse
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Feild, Hubert S.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1974
Article attempted to determine the variables related to overall satisfaction with graduate school and to determine the significance of two sets of variables, one set intrinsic and the other set extrinsic to students' graduate education, in predicting overall satisfaction. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Research Methodology, Sampling
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Lundahl, Brad W. – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2008
To complement traditional learning activities in a masters-level research methodology course, social work students worked on a formal research project which involved: designing the study, constructing measures, selecting a sampling strategy, collecting data, reducing and analyzing data, and finally interpreting and communicating the results. The…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Research Projects, Research Methodology, Learning Strategies
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Smithers, A.; And Others – Educational Research, 1974
The present research again demonstrates the strong link between social class background and early leaving, but, interestingly, when stated leaving preference was controlled for, no relationship between social class background and conceptions of school was detected. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Sampling, Social Background
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Feather, N. T.; Collins, J. Maxwell – Australian Journal of Education, 1974
This paper presents and discusses the results of an empirical study of value orientations of a sample of students entering three different programs of study at a college of advanced education. (Editor)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Questionnaires, Research Methodology, Sampling
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Pritchett, W.; Willower, D. J. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1975
The major hypothesis of this article was that there will be a positive relationship between custodialism in teacher pupil control behavior and unfavorable student attitudes toward school. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Research, High Schools, Measurement Instruments, Research Methodology
Kronick, Robert F. – Southern Journal of Educational Research, 1974
In this paper we hope to show that the continuing question of whether or not attitudes have an effect on behavior can be answered. (Editor)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Interaction, Organizational Climate
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