Publication Date
| In 2026 | 0 |
| Since 2025 | 129 |
| Since 2022 (last 5 years) | 722 |
| Since 2017 (last 10 years) | 1523 |
| Since 2007 (last 20 years) | 4076 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
| Researchers | 687 |
| Practitioners | 296 |
| Teachers | 186 |
| Policymakers | 100 |
| Administrators | 81 |
| Students | 59 |
| Counselors | 10 |
| Media Staff | 8 |
| Parents | 8 |
| Community | 6 |
| Support Staff | 4 |
| More ▼ | |
Location
| Australia | 160 |
| Canada | 137 |
| United States | 130 |
| United Kingdom | 123 |
| Turkey | 122 |
| California | 73 |
| United Kingdom (England) | 71 |
| Germany | 51 |
| Texas | 49 |
| Sweden | 47 |
| Netherlands | 43 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 12 |
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 16 |
| Does not meet standards | 12 |
Peer reviewed
Direct linkDesimone, 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 textAbdelhafez, Ahmed M. M. – Online Submission, 2007
Background: Research reveals that the relationship between a student and a supervisor is so crucial that students cannot afford to leave it to chance. It must be managed. Phillips and Pugh (2000, p. 193) maintains that if students are to do this well, they must understand what their supervisors expect of them. Once they have this "inside…
Descriptors: Statistical Surveys, Supervisors, Research Design, Questionnaires
Biesma, R. G.; Pavlova, M.; van Merode, G. G.; Groot, W. – Economics of Education Review, 2007
This paper uses an experimental design to estimate preferences of employers for key competencies during the transition from initial education to the labor market. The study is restricted to employers of entry-level academic graduates entering public health organizations in the Netherlands. Given the changing and complex demands in public health,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Design, Graduates, Public Health
Brisard, Estelle; Menter, Ian; Smith, Ian – Comparative Education, 2007
This article presents the conceptual and methodological framework of a two-year comparative research project (2002-2004), funded by the University of Paisley. The study, entitled "Convergence or Divergence? Initial Teacher Education in Scotland and England", investigated initial teacher education (ITE) policy and practice in England and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Teacher Education, Global Approach
Stains, Marilyne; Talanquer, Vicente – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
We applied a mixed-method research design to investigate the patterns of reasoning used by novice undergraduate chemistry students to classify chemical substances as elements, compounds, or mixtures based on their particulate representations. We were interested in the identification of the representational features that students use to build a…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Research Design, Cognitive Processes, Classification
Badmus, Medinat M. O. – College Student Journal, 2007
This study was undertaken to assess the contributions of teachers' knowledge of Curriculum Characteristics, value internalization and commitment, perception of adequacy of facilities, equipment and materials, and degree of performance of implementation roles/behaviours to achievements in Junior Secondary Certificate Examination in Home Economics.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Design, Secondary Schools, Home Economics Teachers
Guenette, Danielle – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2007
The debate continues between those who believe in giving corrective feedback to students to improve their written accuracy and those who do not. Indeed, the results of the many experimental studies on written corrective feedback carried out over the last 20 years have been so contradictory that second language teachers looking to support their…
Descriptors: Research Design, Language Teachers, Feedback, Error Correction
Holmqvist, Mona; Gustavsson, Laila; Wernberg, Anna – Educational Action Research, 2007
In this article an educational action research study, based on a phenomenographic approach, is reported in which unexpected results have been possible to gather thanks to the inductive design of the study. The aim is to describe the ways in which contrasts of critical aspects of a learning object affect the students' generative learning found by…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Action Research, Research Design, Phenomenology
Bartram, Brendan – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2007
The following article examines the sociocultural needs of higher education students on an international degree programme delivered jointly by a post-1992 university in England and a polytechnic institution in the Netherlands. A brief discussion of relevant literature is followed by a methodological overview, detailing the qualitative research…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Sociocultural Patterns, Higher Education, Research Design
