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Emily Oxley; Hannah M. Nash; Anna R. Weighall – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2025
The study explores the Delphi consensus technique's application in educational research, focusing on identifying barriers and facilitators to educational attainment for children speaking English as an Additional Language (EAL) from the perspective of their teachers. It discusses the methodology's advantages and considerations within an educational…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Group Unity, Delphi Technique, Barriers
Ziegler, Cindy – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In a local middle school, students were not meeting standards on the state mathematics tests. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore mathematics teachers' perspectives on effective mathematics instruction vis-a-vis the principles of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). Within this framework, the 6 principles in the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Content Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness
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Boghossian, Peter – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2012
Constructivist pedagogies cannot achieve their critical thinking ambitions. Constructivism, and constructivist epistemological presuppositions, actively thwarts the critical thinking process. Using Wittgenstein's private language argument, this paper argues that corrective mechanisms--the ability to correct a student's propositions and cognitions…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Critical Thinking, Delphi Technique, Teacher Student Relationship
Kieschnick, Lauren E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines the strategies that promote mathematical self-efficacy in the middle level mathematics classroom. The need for more self-efficacious students to pursue mathematics is prevalent in the United States due to the need of workers in the STEM fields. Finding strategies to promote mathematical self-efficacy will provide…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Self Efficacy, Middle School Students, Delphi Technique
Thurlow, Martha; Shyyan, Vitaliy; Barrera, Manuel; Liu, Kristi – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2008
This study is part of national research over the past seven years at the National Center on Educational Outcomes focused on identifying and validating instructional strategies for ELLs with disabilities (Shyyan, Thurlow, & Liu, 2008; Thurlow, Albus, Shyyan, Liu, & Barrera, 2004). In recent work (Barrera, Shyyan, Liu, & Thurlow, 2008),…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Delphi Technique, Teaching Methods, Teacher Surveys