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Christian Beighton – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2021
This case discusses how scenario-based interviews can be used to develop research into policy and practice. Based on data collected from U.K. further education management settings, it shows how and why scenario-based interviews were used. It also explains how the data collected were then used to illustrate and analyze the implementation of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Vignettes, Policy Formation
Wayne Barry; Christian Beighton – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2021
This research took place in a U.K. higher education institution. It was concerned with the professional learning of academic staff and examined what enables and encumbers work-based professional learning. A two-stage photovoice methodology was chosen because it presented two advantages. First, it was the best way of including participants in the…
Descriptors: Photography, Participatory Research, Educational Research, Research Methodology
Z. W. Taylor; Joshua Childs – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
This case study explains how to gather web metrics to measure the size, investment, and popularity of K-12 school system and higher education websites. This case study will first explain and define web metrics in detail, such as keywords, traffic, search engine optimization, and other terminology crucial for educational researchers to understand…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Evaluation, Web Sites, Educational Researchers
Boyd L. Bradbury; Ximena P. Suarez-Sousa – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
This case study reflects upon a mixed-methods exploratory study utilized by the Leadership in Times of Crisis Framework within the paradigm of pragmatism to survey 976 Minnesota teachers in April of 2020 to determine the demographic profile of teachers in Minnesota who were facing the COVID-19 pandemic and the greatest challenges in their…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Surveys, Test Construction
Elizabeth A. D. Wacker; Shauna L. Rienks; Julie S. McCrae – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2018
Identifying effective literacy interventions for teachers of very young children is important, but it is not easy. In this case study, we share our experiences implementing a quasi-experimental evaluation of an early literacy program. We describe the design and context of the study and discuss three key issues that we encountered with data…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education
Sabine Gerhartz-Reiter – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
In the research project which formed part of my PhD study, I dealt with the topic of inequity in education. My main interest was to find out how (formal) educational careers can be fostered even if the starting position within the system is one which makes a successful educational career very difficult. Despite the fact that in the Austrian…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Research Projects, Research Design, Data Collection
P. Janelle McFeetors – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This case study describes an experience of using constructivist grounded theory to analyze data. The project investigated how high school students improved their approaches to learning mathematics. Over 4 months, students participated in processes which supported their learning while simultaneously generating data, including interactive writing,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mathematics Education, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation
Julie F. Schappe – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
In this case, I discuss my progression from ethnography toward multimodal ethnography as a necessary methodology to study multiliterate and multimodal lives. I view daily life, social interactions, and meaning-making practices as inherently multimodal. By multimodal, I mean that individuals continually read, interpret, and create meanings that…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Intermode Differences, Researchers, Reflection
Pallavi Amitava Banerjee – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
This case study evaluated the impact of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics initiatives in improving educational outcomes in the United Kingdom. Using secondary data in the form of official datasets approved by the national pupil database, Year 7 cohort was longitudinally followed from the beginning of Key Stage 3 till the end of Key…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Policy, Data, Educational Practices
Najib A. Mozahem – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2021
The internet has had a vast and pervasive effect on many industries. It has resulted in the creation of new industries and has overhauled the dynamics that governed existing industries. One of the most traditional industries that is now struggling to cope with the changes brought on by the internet is the industry of higher education. Students can…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Electronic Learning, Learning Management Systems, Higher Education
Jennifer L. Richards; Michael R. Kramer – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
Collecting the perfect data to answer a research question is optimal but not always feasible. Sometimes existing data can be leveraged to answer some questions, but this opportunity comes with important potential pitfalls. To test the effect of early life exposures such as being born preterm or living in a materially deprived neighborhood on early…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Longitudinal Studies, Prenatal Influences, Perinatal Influences
Lynda Turner; Jane Tobbell – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
This account describes my research experiences as a doctoral student in education, seeking to understand what transition to Higher Education was like for undergraduate students. I was supported throughout the process by my colleague and supervisor Dr Jane Tobbell. I conducted ethnographic research and the case study provides an account of the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, School Transition, Ethnography, Research Methodology
Andrew Boon – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This case study provides an overview of an Action Research project that examines effective instruction-giving in the language classroom. The case describes each of the various phases of the Action Research cycle from identifying a researchable pedagogic puzzle or critical incident, collecting and analyzing classroom data about it, bringing about…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Projects, Research Methodology, Puzzles
Lisa Kervin; Jessica Mantei; Kylie Lipscombe – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
Classrooms are complex environments. Ethnography can help researchers understand these complexities as they gather information by watching and talking with people, reading available reports and records and mapping out the environment. This case adds to existing literature on ethnography as we share our own experiences of what we refer to as…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Research Methodology, Case Studies, Educational Research
Christian Beighton – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2021
This case study discusses how theory and deductive analysis can be used to better understand work-based learning (WBL). Based in a U.K. teacher education setting, it discusses a project which examined how novice teachers in English Further Education develop their professional knowledge and how their experiences might help understand WBL more…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Interviews, Logical Thinking, Research Methodology
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