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Weijer, Charles; Taljaard, Monica; Grimshaw, Jeremy M.; Edwards, Sarah J. L.; Eccles, Martin P. – Research Ethics, 2015
Owing to unique features of their design, cluster randomized trials complicate the interpretation of standard ethics guidelines. The recently published Ottawa statement on the ethical design and conduct of cluster randomized trials provides researchers and research ethics committees with detailed guidance on the design, conduct, and review of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Research Methodology, Research Design, Committees
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Thomson, Rachel; McLeod, Julie – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2015
This paper outlines the state of the art in qualitative longitudinal methodology, reflecting on more than 10 years of development since a previous special issue on qualitative longitudinal research was published by the "International Journal of Social Research Methodology" in 2003. The papers presented in this special issue emerge from a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Longitudinal Studies, Social Science Research, Research Methodology
Brock, Susanne M. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Community colleges increasingly face the need to engage in entrepreneurial activities to fill funding gaps created by reduced state funding and increased operational costs. The research attention given to four-year universities and colleges has not been paid to find solutions for the external challenges that community colleges face with funding…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Organizational Culture
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Vasquez-Martinez, Claudio-Rafael; Gonzalez, Clara; Carrillo, Fatima; Delgado, Luis; Alvarez, Miguel; Morfin-Otero, Maria – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2015
One of the main factors in the globalization of problems and opportunities that face human society is science, which deals with matters of health, environment, competitive production, and employment, among other issues, and generally ways for promoting a better quality of life. Science has become a central part of the culture in the developed…
Descriptors: Science Education, Conservation (Environment), Science and Society, Cultural Influences
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Van der Walt, Johannes L. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2015
In this paper the author discusses how 21st century education researchers could and in his opinion, should approach the scientific description of the various entities that they might encounter. The word "entities" in pedagogical context refers to phenomena and structures such as "an education system", "education",…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Educational Methods, Conference Papers, Foundations of Education
Blair, Edward; Blair, Johnny – SAGE Publications Ltd (CA), 2015
Written for students and researchers who wish to understand the conceptual and practical aspects of sampling, this book is designed to be accessible without requiring advanced statistical training. It covers a wide range of topics, from the basics of sampling to special topics such as sampling rare populations, sampling organizational populations,…
Descriptors: Sampling, Research Methodology, Case Studies, Surveys
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Tallman, Michael A.; Weber, Eric – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
In this paper, we present an analytical framework for attending to reflexivity in the context of conducting teaching experiments and rationalize its components by appealing to the constructivist foundations on which the methodology is based. To illustrate the importance and utility of this framework, we discuss our analysis of recent mathematics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Researchers, Models, Mathematical Logic
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Cernat, Alexandru; Lynn, Peter – Field Methods, 2018
This article is concerned with the extent to which the propensity to participate in a web face-to-face sequential mixed-mode survey is influenced by the ability to communicate with sample members by e-mail in addition to mail. Researchers may be able to collect e-mail addresses for sample members and to use them subsequently to send survey…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Mail, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Mass Media Role
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Arantes do Amaral, João Alberto; Lino dos Santos, Rebeca Júlia Rodrigues – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
In this article, we present our findings regarding the course "Research Methodology," offered to 22 first-year undergraduate students studying Administration at the Federal University of São Paulo, Osasco, Brazil. The course, which combined community-based research and project-based learning, was developed during the second semester of…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries
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Melhuish, Kathleen – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2018
Many studies in mathematics education research occur with a nonrepresentative sample and are never replicated. To challenge this paradigm, I designed a large-scale study evaluating student conceptions in group theory that surveyed a national, representative sample of students. By replicating questions previously used to build theory around student…
Descriptors: Replication (Evaluation), Scientific Research, Mathematics Education, Program Validation
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Porta, Carolyn M.; Mann, Erin M.; Amiri, Rohina; Avery, Melissa D.; Azim, Sheba; Conway-Klaassen, Janice M.; Golzareh, Parvin; Joya, Mahdawi; Mwikarago, Emil Ivan; Nejabi, Mohammad Bashir; Olejniczak, Megan; Radhakrishnan, Raghu; Tengera, Olive; Thomas, Manuel S.; Weinkauf, Julia L.; Wiesner, Stephen M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Despite ongoing insecurity, Afghanistan has demonstrated improvement in health outcomes. Reasons for this success include a strategic public-private health service delivery model and investment in Afghan health care workforce development. Afghan universities have the primary responsibility for ensuring that an adequate health care workforce is…
Descriptors: Health Services, Public Health, Delivery Systems, Labor Force Development
Bueno, David Cababaro – Online Submission, 2020
Innovation and the development of knowledge in the field of scientific research is increasing exponentially, but it continues to be disjointed. It makes it difficult to keep up with state-of-the-art and to be at the forefront of research and dissemination, as well as to evaluate empirical evidence in the area of academic excellence. Recent…
Descriptors: Prevention, Plagiarism, Search Engines, Research Methodology
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Kaufman, Julia H.; Engberg, John; Hamilton, Laura S.; Yuan, Kun; Hill, Heather C. – Educational Assessment, 2019
High-quality measures of instructional practice are essential for research and evaluation of innovative instructional policies and programs. However, existing measures have generally proven inadequate because of cost and validity issues. This paper addresses two potential drawbacks of survey self-report measures: variation in teachers'…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Vignettes, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Evaluation
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Coda, James – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2019
School and work climate studies of LGBTQ-identified students and educators often reflect challenging environments for those with non-normative sexual and gender identities. Thus, this study sought to understand the experiences of LGBTQ-identified world language (WL) educators in the classroom as well as the intersections of their gender and sexual…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Work Environment, Sexual Identity, Language Teachers
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Siwei, Yue; Xuefei, Wang – English Language Teaching, 2019
This study explores the teaching approach of the general courses of theoretical knowledge targeted at the freshmen based on a pilot study of the course Research Methodology in School of English for International Business (SEIB) in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. A questionnaire survey of 163 freshmen who take the course at two consecutive…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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