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Sivakumar, Vineetha – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
This article is developed from the contents from one of the chapters the researcher has written as part of her PhD thesis. It discusses various methodological challenges the researcher had to face during the phase of data collection in the prisons of Kerala, India, and the strategies adopted to overcome these challenges. This article is intended…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Research Methodology, Data Collection, Qualitative Research
Brasof, Marc, Ed.; Levitan, Joseph, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2022
This powerful resource is for researchers and educational leaders who are interested in understanding and applying research methods that emphasize youth voice. The authors argue that most educational research either omits critical understandings of youth or, even worse, presents inaccuracies due to faulty techniques. Researching how youth…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Guidelines, Educational Research, Power Structure
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Henderson, Peter; Hodgen, Jeremy; Foster, Colin; Kuchemann, Dietmar – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
This guidance report focuses on the teaching of mathematics to pupils in Key Stages 2 and 3. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive guide to mathematics teaching. We have made recommendations where there are research findings that schools can use to make a significant difference to pupils' learning, and have focused on the questions that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Elementary Education, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
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Rhodes, Igraine; Long, Michelle – Education Endowment Foundation, 2019
This Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) guidance report is designed to support senior leaders in primary and secondary schools to make better-informed decisions about their behaviour strategies. It includes a number of practical examples of programmes and approaches that should be helpful in schools and classrooms where behaviour is generally…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Best Practices
Montgomery County Public Schools, 2012
"MCPS School Safety and Security at a Glance" provides, in a single document, information about the reporting of incidents related to school safety and security, school climate, local school safety program descriptions, and serious incidents. Information is presented for each Montgomery County (Maryland) public school. While much of this…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Counties, School Safety, School Security
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Schafer, William D. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1991
Presents first of two-part editorial (second part to appear in next journal issue) proposing guidelines for developing useful tables to report multiple regression outcomes. Pays particular attention to situations where a hierarchical multiple regression analysis is guided by theory. Concludes that some conventional way to report multiple…
Descriptors: Multiple Regression Analysis, Regression (Statistics), Research Problems, Tables (Data)
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McGraw, Kenneth O.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1994
Suggest practical procedure for estimating number of subjects that need to be screened to obtain sample of fixed size that meets multiple correlated criteria. Procedure described is based on fact that least-squares regression provides good quadratic fit for Monte Carlo estimates of multivariate probabilities when they are plotted as function of…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Monte Carlo Methods, Research Methodology, Research Problems
Laird, John E. – 1986
This manual describes Version 4 of Soar, an architecture for problem solving and learning based on heuristic search and chunking. Version 4 is available as of January 1986 in Common Lisp, Franz-Lisp, Interlisp, and Zeta-Lisp. An introduction to the Soar system is presented, and information is provided about the following system aspects: (1) data…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Expert Systems
International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. – 1986
The papers presented in these proceedings are organized into seven categories: (1) number and number operations (13 papers); (2) spatial representation and geometrical understanding (10 papers); (3) developing and/or using models of mathematical learning (15 papers); (4) mathematical concept formation (17 papers); (5) the mathematical learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Concept Formation, Elementary School Mathematics