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Williamson, Ben; Morgan, John – Curriculum Journal, 2009
This article explores the implications for teacher education and continuous professional development (CPD) of enquiry-based learning, by drawing specifically on data collected during a four-year curriculum development and research project, Enquiring Minds (2005-9). Within the partnership approach to curriculum design endorsed by the project,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Educational Research, Educational Change
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Barratt, Caroline Cason; Nielsen, Kristin; Desmet, Christy; Balthazor, Ron – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2009
This study describes a collaborative research project between two composition instructors and two librarians that analyzed citation patterns among students in the First-year Composition Program at the University of Georgia. Built upon earlier bibliometric studies, this study seeks not only to examine a large data set of citations--larger than was…
Descriptors: Student Research, Cooperation, Writing Instruction, Librarians
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Hughes, Hilary – Middle School Journal (J3), 2009
As Jackson and Davis noted, "the main purpose of middle grades education is to promote young adolescents' intellectual development. It is to enable every student to think creatively, to identify and solve meaningful problems, to communicate and work well with others, and to develop the base of factual knowledge and skills that is the essential…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Early Adolescents, Individualized Instruction, Intellectual Development
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Shek, Daniel T. L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2009
The organization and research programs of the Social Welfare Practice and Research Centre (SWPRC) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong are outlined. There are five regular research programs (Family and Group Practice Research Centre, Human Behavior and the Social Environment Research Program, Mutual Aid and Social Capital Research Program,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Projects, Foreign Countries, Social Environment
Mante, W. H. R. – Higher Education and Research in the Netherlands, 1977
The direct deployability for the improvement of national and international agricultural research in developing countries, with the prime objective of strenthening the position of small farmers, was the crux of several symposia at Wageningen, in the east Netherlands. It focused on world food production and international cooperation in agricultural…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Agricultural Research Projects, Conferences, Developing Nations
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Nelson, David A.; Bilger, Robert C. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1974
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Research Projects
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Macrae, J. H. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1974
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Research Projects
Thomas, R. Murray; Freeman, Joyce – Peabody J Educ, 1970
Descriptors: Art Education, Research Projects
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Rooney, Donna; Solomon, Nicky – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2006
This paper about consumption as a metaphor for learning follows from some ideas about learning and space that emerged from a research project concerned with everyday learning at work. These learning/work spaces have drawn our attention to the significant consumption (eating and drinking) occurring within them. We suggest that linking everyday…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Research Projects
El-Tayeb, Mahmoud N.; El Nashar, Mohamed; Zeid, Mai M.; El-Sayed, Magda; Ramadan, Mohamed A.; Hamdi, Safia M.; El-Affy, Nabila; Ebeid, Amina K.; El-Marasi, Sonia S.; Abou-Elmahty, Maher – Online Submission, 2010
Through directing concerted efforts and educational services of seven Faculties of Helwan University towards socially underprivileged pupils in slum areas (EL-Marg area in big Cairo) this research project had two main aims: firstly, modifying a set of arbitrary behaviors of those pupils, in a trial to develop some behavior skills associated with…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Behavior Problems, Research Projects, Self Esteem
Roberts, Josie; Bolstad, Rachel – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2010
The New Zealand Council for Educational Research's (NZCER's) Families and Communities Engagement (FACE) project is investigating ideas and practices involved in bringing together teachers, families, local communities and students to contribute to collective conversations and decisions about education. This report concerns a sub-project of FACE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Researchers, Student Role
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Peters, Ray DeV.; Bradshaw, Alison J.; Petrunka, Kelly; Nelson, Geoffrey; Herry, Yves; Craig, Wendy M.; Arnold, Robert; Parker, Kevin C. H.; Khan, Shahriar R.; Hoch, Jeffrey S.; Pancer, S. Mark; Loomis, Colleen; Belanger, Jean-Marc; Evers, Susan; Maltais, Claire; Thompson, Katherine; Rossiter, Melissa D. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
Although comprehensive and ecological approaches to early childhood prevention are commonly advocated, there are few examples of long-term follow-up of such programs. In this monograph, we investigate the medium- and long-term effects of an ecological, community-based prevention project for primary school children and families living in three…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Quasiexperimental Design, Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
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Northcote, Maria; Mildenhall, Paula; Marshall, Linda; Swan, Paul – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Over the last decade, interactive whiteboards have become popular teaching and learning tools, especially in primary school classrooms. Research studies from recent literature report on high levels of student motivation, teacher enthusiasm and whole-school support associated with these technological tools. Much research to date has reported on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Research Projects, Student Motivation
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Hausstatter, Rune Sarromaa; Connolley, Steven – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2007
This article presents an analysis of the different perspectives and ideologies within the evolving field of special education research. This examination has claimed that Imre Lakatos' notion of "research programmes", which allows for a plurality of directions of research, provides a valuable guide for understanding the development and current…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Ideology, Ethics, Special Education
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Wojtecki, Cindy A.; Wade, Michael J.; Pato, Michele T. – Academic Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: The authors discuss teaching clinicians about research by generating projects from clinical practice, expertise, and interest. Method: Classes were co-taught by the hospital biostatistician and clinical nurse specialist in consultation with one of the authors. Hospital clinicians were taught how to initiate and design their study as a…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Health Personnel, Pretests Posttests, Student Improvement
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