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Direct linkPatterson, Barbara J.; Kelly, Lynn E. – Journal of School Nursing, 2005
Focus group research is an effective way for school nurses to gain knowledge about a diverse range of issues that children in schools may face. It is a means to gather information about perceptions, feelings, points of view, and manners of thinking from a group of individuals about a specific topic. This article overviews focus groups as a…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, School Nurses, Focus Groups, Qualitative Research
Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Leech, Nancy L. – Current Issues in Education, 2005
This paper identifies major errors and myths perpetuated by educational research textbooks. The most pervasive errors and myths advanced by methodology textbooks at the following eight phases of the educational research process are described: (a) formulating a research problem/objective; (b) reviewing the literature; (c) developing the research…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Research Design, Qualitative Research, Educational Research
Desimone, Laura M.; Le Floch, Kerstin Carlson – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2004
Improving the validity and reliability of surveys is a critical part of the response to the call for improved rigor of education research, policy analysis and evaluation. Too often we create inquiry tools without validating our measures against how respondents interpret our questions, and therefore collect data of questionable quality. The purpose…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Evaluation Methods, Educational Research, Validity
Lord, Catherine; Wagner, Ann; Rogers, Sally; Szatmari, Peter; Aman, Michael; Charman, Tony; Dawson, Geraldine; Durand, V. Mark; Grossman, Lee; Guthrie, Donald; Harris, Sandra; Kasanri, Connie; Marcus, Lee; Murphy, Susan; Odom, Samuel; Pickles, Andrew; Scahill, Lawrence; Shaw, Evelyn; Siegel, Bryna; Sigman, Marian; Stone, Wendy; Smith, Tristram; Yoder, Paul – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2005
In 2002, the National Institutes of Health sponsored a meeting concerning methodological challenges of research in psychosocial interventions in Autism Spectrum Disorders. This paper provides a summary of the presentations and the discussions that occurred during this meeting. Recommendations to federal and private agencies included the need for…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Meetings, Research Methodology, Intervention
Riggs, Nathaniel R.; Greenberg, Mark T. – Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2004
Although there has been a rapid increase in funding and attention to after-school programs, there is little understanding of how after-school programs impact children's developmental trajectories. The heterogeneity of American children makes it very unlikely that all children need after-school programming or that there is but one brand of…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Models, Child Development, Influences
Jitendra, Asha K. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2005
In this commentary, I summarize my own research with colleagues to affirm Dr. Gersten's call for considering design experiments prior to conducting intervention research. I describe how design experiments not only can inform teaching and the learning of innovative approaches, but also hold the promise of effectively bridging the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Research, Theory Practice Relationship, Research Design
Niederhauser, Dale S.; Wetzel, Keith; Lindstrom, Denise L. – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2005
The publishing process is often challenging for new educational technology scholars. This article provides insights into the publication process to help them understand and to increase the chances that their work will be accepted for publication in high-quality peer-reviewed journals. Suggestions for developing a program of research, a description…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Research, Writing for Publication, Journal Articles
Caskey, Micki M. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2006
Action research is one of the relevant methodologies for addressing research questions and issues in middle grades education. Accounting for nearly 20% of published middle grades research studies (Hough, 2003), action research has emerged as an important and appropriate research method. In addition to reviewing the historical context, this article…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Methodology, Middle Schools, Research Design
Bellack, Alan S.; Brown, Clayton H.; Thomas-Lohrman, Shannon – Behavior Therapy, 2006
There is an extensive literature documenting that people with schizophrenia have marked impairments in social role functioning and social skill. One of the most widely employed strategies for assessing social skill has been role-play tests: simulated social interactions that are videotaped for subsequent behavioral coding. There has been…
Descriptors: Play, Schizophrenia, Drug Abuse, Psychometrics
Download full textEducational Testing Service, 2008
This document describes the breadth of the research being conducted in 2008 by the Research and Development Division at Educational Testing Service (ETS). The research described falls into three large categories: (1) Research supported by the ETS research allocation; (2) Research funded by testing programs at ETS; and (3) Research funded by…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Testing Programs, Educational Testing, Educational Research
Empirical Education Inc., 2008
PCI Education sought scientifically based evidence on the effectiveness of the "PCI Reading Program--Level One" for students with severe disabilities. During the 2007-2008 academic year. Empirical Education conducted a randomized control trial (RCT) in two Florida districts, Brevard and Miami-Dade County Public Schools. For this…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Disabilities, Urban Schools, Public Schools
Bruce, Ian – Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2008
This paper reports a corpus investigation of the Methods sections of research-reporting articles in academic journals. In published pedagogic materials, Swales and Feak [Swales, J. M., & Feak, C. (1994). Academic writing for graduate students. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press; Swales, J. M., & Feak, C. (2000). English in today's research…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Research Design, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences
Cooper, Harris – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2007
This occasional paper introduces the methods of research synthesis and meta-analysis to researchers and consumers of research in the field of adult learning and literacy. To begin, the first section of the paper defines key terms and offers a brief history of how the methodologies developed. The second section provides a conceptualization of…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Adult Learning, Synthesis, Research Methodology
National Forum on Early Childhood Program Evaluation, 2007
Increasing demands for evidence-based early childhood services and the need by policymakers to know whether a program is effective or whether it warrants a significant investment of public and/or private funds--coupled with the often-politicized debate around these topics--make it imperative for policymakers and civic leaders to have independent…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Program Evaluation, Young Children, Evaluation Methods
Ingels, Steven J.; Pratt, Daniel J.; Wilson, David; Burns, Laura J.; Currivan, Douglas; Rogers, James E.; Hubbard-Bednasz, Sherry – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
This manual has been produced to familiarize data users with the procedures followed for data collection and processing for the base year through second follow-up of the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS:2002). It also provides the necessary documentation for use of the data files, as they appear on the ELS:2002 base-year to second…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, High School Students, Research Design, Data Collection
