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Tambyah, Mallihai – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2008
A significant issue in primary teacher education is developing a knowledge base which prepares teachers to teach in a range of subject areas. In Australia, the problem in primary social science education is compounded by the integrated nature of the key learning area of Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE). Recent debates on teaching…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Social Sciences
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Chinn, Donald; Vandegrift, Tammy – Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, 2008
This article provides an analysis of student responses to an exercise used in a computer ethics and a software engineering course to raise awareness of issues related to hiring, including issues of professional responsibility and diversity. Students from two different universities were asked to evaluate four candidates for two positions in a…
Descriptors: Personnel Selection, Evaluation Criteria, Inferences, Ethics
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Schoenberg, Nancy E.; Hatcher, Jennifer; Dignan, Mark B. – Journal of Rural Health, 2008
Context: Decades of behavioral research suggest that awareness of health threats is a necessary precursor to engage in health promotion and disease prevention, findings that can be extended to the community level. Purpose: We sought to better understand local perspectives on the main health concerns of rural Appalachian communities in order to…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Females, Heart Disorders, Prevention
Nathan, Mitchell J.; Jackson, Kristi – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2006
The prominent role of Boolean classes in qualitative data analysis software is viewed by some as an encroachment of logical positivism on qualitative research methodology. The authors articulate an embodiment perspective, in which Boolean classes are viewed as conceptual metaphors for apprehending and manipulating data, concepts, and categories in…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Data Analysis, Qualitative Research, Coding
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Lange-Kuttner, C. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
The study investigated at what age children draw boundaries around pairs of objects that share either similarity or proximity. In two studies (N=132 and N=252) using a Wertheimer array, a clear age trend between 4 and 8 years showed that while young children were more likely to code objects into individual regions, older children were more likely…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Young Children, Age Differences, Individual Development
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Thomas, David R. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2006
A general inductive approach for analysis of qualitative evaluation data is described. The purposes for using an inductive approach are to (a) condense raw textual data into a brief, summary format; (b) establish clear links between the evaluation or research objectives and the summary findings derived from the raw data; and (c) develop a…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods
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Theakson, Anna L.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Pine, Julian M.; Rowland, Caroline F. – Journal of Child Language, 2006
In our recent paper, "Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax" ("Journal of Child Language" 31, 61-99), we presented data from two-year-old children to examine the question of whether the semantic generality of verbs contributed to their ease and stage of acquisition over and above the effects of their typically high…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Syntax, Child Language
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Hipsky, Shellie – Qualitative Report, 2006
The objective of this article is to present the Pre-Conceptual Map methodology as a formalized way to identify, document, and utilize preconceived assumptions on the part of the researcher in qualitative inquiry. This technique can be used as a stand alone method or in conjunction with other qualitative techniques (i.e., naturalistic inquiry).…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Pilot Projects, Validity
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Sidener, David W.; Michael, Jack – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2006
The ability of preschool age children to perform generalized relational matching to sample tasks with and without an overt mediating stimulus was examined. This experiment was a direct replication of a study by Lowenkron (1984) and examined a behavioral model relevant to complex human behavior that he later came to call "joint control." Children…
Descriptors: Generalization, Objective Tests, Preschool Children, Stimuli
McNeal, Betsy; Singer, Karen – 1991
This report describes the system used to code each segment of Square One TV for content analysis of all four seasons of production. The analysis is intended to aid in the assessment of how well Square One is meeting its three goals: (1) to promote positive attitudes toward, and enthusiasm for, mathematics; (2) to encourage the use and application…
Descriptors: Coding, Content Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
Stemler, Steve – 2001
This digest provides an introduction to content analysis, a systematic, replicable technique for compressing many words of a text into fewer content categories based on explicit rules of coding. This allows inferences to be made that can then be corroborated using other methods of data collection. In a technical sense, content analysis is not…
Descriptors: Coding, Content Analysis, Data Collection, Research Methodology
Hoover, Eric – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002
Describes how the College Board will stop flagging the scores of test-takers who were granted extra time on the SAT because of disabilities. (EV)
Descriptors: Coding, Disabilities, Higher Education, Scores
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Heine, M. H. – Journal of Documentation, 1995
Proposes a new rule system and notation that supports the characterization of a document based on its structure or architecture (primarily linear, paper-copy media). Examples of the application of the notation are provided. (Author/JKP)
Descriptors: Classification, Coding, Documentation, Indexing
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Lin, Jianhua; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1992
Analyzes the computational complexity of optimal binary tree pruning for tree-structured vector quantization. Topics discussed include the combinatorial nature of the optimization problem; the complexity of optimal tree pruning; and finding a minimal size pruned tree. (11 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Coding, Computation, Information Processing
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Abrahams, Julia – Information Processing & Management, 1994
Discusses the minimum average codeword length coding under the constraint that the codewords are monotonically nondecreasing in length. Bounds on the average length of an optimal monotonic code are derived, and sufficient conditions are given such that algorithms for optimal alphabetic codes can be used to find the optimal monotonic code. (six…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Coding, Illustrations, Information Theory
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