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McCarty, Timothy Wyman – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
This article offers two novel tools for teaching political science methodology and research design. The first is a comprehensive framework for helping students conceptualize a research project in political science. The second is a reformulation of the dominant conceptualization of process-tracing tests. Building on Collier's use of Sherlock Holmes…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Research Methodology, Research Design, Political Science
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Harland, Darci – Science Teacher, 2013
Research projects are worth doing. They raise student interest in science and offer experience in authentic scientific practices. Implementing independent research projects among students requires the teacher to be skilled not only in scientific research but also in project management. Teachers' duties include--but are not limited…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Student Research, Student Projects, High School Students
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Unluer, Sema – Qualitative Report, 2012
It is crucial for social researchers to clarify their researchers' roles, especially for those utilizing qualitative methodology to make their research credible. The purpose of this paper is to examine the advantages and disadvantages of the researcher's insider role, an instructor, occupied within case study research on the integration of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Ethics, Foreign Countries, Research Design
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Blakemore, Helen – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2012
The following narrative reflects on the dilemmas and problems faced by inexperienced researchers working within the field of education. Focusing on a research project completed in fulfilment of an MA in Teaching and Learning, the article recounts the decisions made by one emergent researcher and evaluates how far the chosen methods may have helped…
Descriptors: English Literature, Action Research, Researchers, English Instruction
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Freeman, Lynne; Spanjaard, Daniela – Journal of Marketing Education, 2012
This article challenges the content of most marketing research courses whereby students are indoctrinated into the qualitative-then-quantitative archetype commonly found in scholarly research, under the assumption that it is both sufficient and appropriate when equipping students with the necessary skills for business. By following this standard…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Ethnography, Research Methodology, Marketing
McDonough, Beth Allsopp – Online Submission, 2014
More than two decades of debate since the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) adopted the term information literacy have been marked by ongoing criticism of its associated definitions and standards. Some scholars and practitioners have argued for a critical information literacy, which applies the precepts of critical pedagogy to…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Educational Practices, Undergraduate Students, Critical Theory
Wicklein, Robert; Mativo, John – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2009
The purpose of this research project was to use an experimental design research methodology to compare learning and attitudinal effects of two different design instructional strategies on randomly selected and assigned 11th and 12th grade students. Through the use of a common technological based problem, students were guided through a design…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Research Design
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Raddon, Mary-Beth; Nault, Caleb; Scott, Alexis – Teaching Sociology, 2008
Participatory exercises are standard practice in qualitative methods courses; less common are projects that engage students in the entire research process, from research design to write-up. Although the teaching literature provides several models of complete research projects, their feasibility, and appropriateness for large, compulsory,…
Descriptors: Research Design, Courses, Research Projects, Research Methodology
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Barzel, Barbel – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2007
The title describes two challenges with which mathematics teachers nowadays have to deal concerning their classroom-arrangements: new teaching methods and integrating computers. Many teachers are afraid that when realising both trends, curricular prescriptions can become even more difficult to achieve. Changes in the classroom-arrangements and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Educational Change, Teaching Methods
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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
Uprichard, A. Edward – 1973
In this paper the belief is stated that researchers need to develop some type of conceptual frame for improving continuity of studies and specificity of treatment. This paper describes such a conceptual frame and its implications for research. The paper states that the framework was designed to help researchers identify, classify, and/or quantify…
Descriptors: Research Criteria, Research Design, Research Methodology, Research Projects
Hensley, Thomas R.; Dean, Karen – Teaching Political Science, 1988
Points out inadequacies in the numeric data set that accompanied the Supplementary Empirical Teaching Units in Political Science (SETUPS) monograph on the U.S. Supreme Court. Suggests that the data not be used for research purposes but notes they may be utilized as a teaching tool in discussing quantitative methods of analysis relative to Supreme…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Data, Higher Education, Instruction
Armbruster, Bonnie B.; And Others – 1986
The Collaboration to Improve Reading in the Content Areas (CIRCA) project, a collaborative effort between the Center for the Study of Reading and the Chicago Public Schools, is described in this paper. Noting that the project was designed to translate research about content area reading into practice, the first section briefly discusses the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, History
Felsenthal, Norman A. – 1973
Reporting on a group of class projects undertaken by a series of his college-level "Broadcasting and Society" courses, the author concludes that there is great value in encouraging undergraduates to do their own original research. Among the topics researched by the students are the effect of television on nuns, television news viewing…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Films, Individual Instruction, Media Research
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Asher, Carla – English Education, 1987
Discusses concerns the developers of a "teacher as researcher" seminar had in creating studies and activities for the participants, including how to foster equality in relationship between the professional researchers and the teachers, discovering what kinds of support teachers need as researchers, and fostering ownership of studies and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Development, Research Design
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