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Challenges of Using the Classroom as a Quasi-Experimental Research Environment for Teacher-Scholars and the Importance of a Mixed-Methods Approach. Sage Research Methods: Data and Research Literacy
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Marcia Nichols; Andrew M. Petzold; Robert L. Dunbar – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2025
This Case Study reviews a quasi-experimental research project in the field of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Researching the effects of pedagogic interventions poses a number of methodologic challenges. Our original research goal was to create an assignment that would ameliorate the problem of content knowledge loss. Teaching and…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Educational Research, Mixed Methods Research, Teaching Methods
Challenging Adultism by Using Forum Theatre as a Research Method to Explore Young People's Understandings of Social Issues in Underserved Communities. Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research
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Leyla Safta-Zecheria; Mihaela Mitescu-Manea; Francisca Hortensia Virag – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
Forum theatre is a drama-based dialogic method proposed by Boal (2008) that can be used as a participatory research method to document how young people make sense of the world around them. In forum theatre, collaboratively authored situations are put forward by groups of people working collectively to illustrate instances of oppression. The play…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Research Methodology, Social Problems, Drama
Challenges in Using Digital Methods for Online Collaborative Action Research: An International Professional Development Project in Higher Education. Sage Research Methods: Doing Research Online
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Kamini Jaipal-Jamani; Hope Mayne; Sheliza Ibrahim – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
Implementing collaborative action research (CAR) is recognized as an effective strategy for transforming professional practice through evidence-based methods. How can CAR be carried out online, and how is data collected through digital methods? This case study will address these aspects in the context of a CAR, international professional…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cooperative Learning, Higher Education, Teacher Educators
Using Action Research to Assess Student Learning in Curriculum on Understanding Poverty. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1
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Eric King-Man Chong – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2018
This case describes an action research project using nonparticipant observation and focus group interviews aimed at analyzing an innovative experiential learning curriculum designed to develop empathy among Chinese Hong Kong learners. The project involved two classes of students selected by teachers with a range of academic capabilities. The…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Curriculum Design, Instructional Innovation, Asians
Challenges to Conducting a Longitudinal Study with Classroom Observations of Teachers' First Year of Professional Practice. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 2
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Tanya Chichekian; Bruce M. Shore – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
This case study focuses on methodological challenges to conducting an ecologically sound, mixed-methods, longitudinal, nonexperimental study of teaching. Examining rich and complex environments is at the heart of research on teaching and learning. We describe situational obstacles we had to overcome, the search for valid and reliable measurements,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Inquiry
A Case Study of a Teacher Doing Science Curriculum Change. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1
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Tang Wee Teo – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
In this article, I describe the processes involved in designing and carrying out a case study project. The case study focuses on a science teacher, Donald, who was undertaking an inquiry-based curriculum change to an advanced chemistry course in a specialized science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school. I describe the groundwork…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
A Quasi-Experimental Study: Using Mythbusters to Understand Research in Psychology. Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1
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Angela M. Sikorski – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
Experimental Psychology is a required course for psychology majors at Texas A&M University--Texarkana. This course is designed to familiarize students with the typical methods and techniques employed in psychological research. I believe that to fully understand research one must experience it, so I incorporated an in-class experiment designed…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Psychological Studies, Research Methodology, Electronic Learning