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Senter, Mary Scheuer – Honors in Practice, 2020
Engaging students in assessment practice benefits honors students, faculty, and administrators. Students gain meaningful research experience while honors programs receive data to help assess student learning and prepare for program review. A one-semester course, Program Evaluation Experiences, tasks students (n = 10) with collecting and analyzing…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Honors Curriculum, Student Research, Data Collection
Sykes, Andrea R.; Szuplat, Mary A.; Decker, Cynthia G. – Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2014
Federal policymakers have interest in three specific areas of postsecondary career and technical education (CTE): associate degrees and certificates awarded in CTE, skills and training obtained through noncredit courses, and industry-recognized certifications. Research and data are readily available on students earning degrees and certificates in…
Descriptors: Educational Certificates, Vocational Education, Noncredit Courses, Outcomes of Education
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Steinfeldt, Jesse A.; Foltz, Brad D.; LaFollette, Julie R.; White, Mattie R.; Wong, Y. Joel; Steinfeldt, Matthew Clint – Counseling Psychologist, 2012
This study investigated perspectives of social justice activists who directly advocate for eliminating Native-themed mascots, nicknames, and logos. Using consensual qualitative research methodology, the research team analyzed transcripts of interviews conducted with 11 social justice activists to generate themes, categories, and domains within the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Qualitative Research, Activism, American Indian Culture
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Jacob, Robin Tepper; Jacob, Brian – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
Teacher and principal surveys are among the most common data collection techniques employed in education research. Yet there is remarkably little research on survey methods in education, or about the most cost-effective way to raise response rates among teachers and principals. In an effort to explore various methods for increasing survey response…
Descriptors: Principals, Data Collection, Test Theory, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
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Halbritter, Bump; Lindquist, Julie – College English, 2012
We present an approach to operationalizing discovery in literacy research by describing a diagnostic, abductive methodology. This methodology treats products of videotaped interviews and participant-authored footage as narrative data produced in scenes of literacy sponsorship. In describing the operations of our diagnostic approach, we foreground…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literacy, Case Studies, Student Research
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, 2007
The purpose of this Guide is to advise researchers, policymakers, and others on when it is possible to conduct a high-quality randomized controlled trial in education at reduced cost. Well-designed randomized controlled trials are recognized as the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention (i.e., program or practice) in…
Descriptors: Costs, Scores, Data, Research Design
COOK, FRED S. – 1963
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF THIS PILOT PROJECT WERE TO (1) DEVELOP AND TEST INSTRUMENTS FOR GATHERING DATA RELEVANT TO QUANTITY AND TYPES OF ENTRY JOBS AVAILABLE IN A SELECTED COMMUNITY AND THE CONCOMITANT TALENTS DEMANDED BY BUSINESS FOR THESE JOBS, AND (2) DEVELOP AND TEST INSTRUMENTS FOR GATHERING DATA CONCERNING WORK ACTIVITIES OF RECENT DROPOUTS…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Dropouts, Graduate Surveys, Interviews
HALLER, A. O.; WOLFF, CAROLE ELLIS – 1962
THIS ARTICLE AND ITS SUPPLEMENT PRESENT THE RESULTS OF A SURVEY OF DIFFERENCES IN VALUES AND ASPIRATIONS OF BOYS RESIDING ON FARMS, IN RURAL NONFARM AND VILLAGE AREAS, AND IN SMALL URBAN AREAS OF LENAWEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN. THE DATA INCLUDE SEVERAL WORK-RELATED VALUE ORIENTATIONS, AS WELL AS EDUCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATIONS OF THE 17-YEAR…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Educational Attitudes
Instructional Development and Evaluation Associates, Inc., Berkeley, MI. – 1981
A study was conducted to determine the extent and nature on non-respondent bias in the follow-up survey in 1981 of Michigan secondary vocational education students from the class of 1980. The response rate to the annual survey has been approximately 76 percent in past years, yet there remains a significant non-response bias potential. This study,…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Data Collection, Dropout Research, Followup Studies
Instructional Development and Evaluation Associates, Inc., Berkeley, MI. – 1981
A study examined the perceptions of employers in Michigan concerning the vocational training received by employees who either completed or left vocational training programs in 1980. A second objective of the study was to compare the relative cost and effectiveness of using telephone and mail surveys to gather data for this type of study. Of a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Educational Benefits
Ferris State Coll., Big Rapids, MI. Center for Occupational Education. – 1986
This guide is intended to serve as a tool for use in examining Michigan's existing job placement program. The job placement status study and planning process outlined in the handbook and the related materials presented have been coordinated with other assessment and planning instruments currently in use by vocational educators in Michigan. The…
Descriptors: Coordination, Data Collection, Delivery Systems, Evaluation Criteria
Brischetto, Robert; Vaughan, David – 1979
To study the impact of school finance reform on minorities and the poor, researchers gathered data on educational revenues and spending, tax effort, district wealth and income, ethnicity, and urban location in California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, New Mexico, and Texas. Their data analysis used various measures of educational equity and fiscal…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid