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Schaeffer, Nora Cate – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021
Conversation analysts have described the formation of actions and the sequential organization of talk in a wide variety of contexts and offer resources that can be used to study interaction in the interview. Conversational practices are relevant before and during the survey interview: First, the process of recruiting sample members to become…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Interviews, Longitudinal Studies
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Garraway, James – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Though the future cannot be accurately predicted, it is possible to envisage a number of probable developments which can promote thinking about the future and so promote a more informed stance about what should or should not be done. Studies in technology and society have claimed that the use of a type of forecasting using plausible but imaginary…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Prediction, Predictor Variables, Teacher Workshops
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Wissman, Kelly; Costello, Sean; Hamilton, Diane – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
This article explores the experiences and literacy practices of an adolescent boy enrolled in an academic support class, in which students received an open-ended invitation to respond to S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders" with the software programme Comic Life. In constructing this "telling case", we highlight how traditional…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Males, Literacy Education, Novels
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Brown, Tammy B. H. – Reading Teacher, 2010
Two successful and two struggling beginning readers were studied with the goal of understanding how beginning readers of varying ability levels make sense of instruction in learning to read. Through interviews, classroom observations, and the collection of artifacts from home and school, the author explored meanings constructed by the students…
Descriptors: Scripts, Literacy, Ability, Beginning Reading
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Mutchler, Matt G.; McDavitt, Bryce – Health Education Research, 2011
Young adults, particularly young gay men (YGM), are vulnerable to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Yet, little is known about how YGM discuss sexual health issues with their friends ("gay boy talk"). We conducted semi-structured interviews with YGM and their best friends (11 YGM/YGM dyads and 13 YGM/heterosexual female dyads). In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Scripts, Disease Control, Prevention
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Pongsophon, Pongprapan; Yutakom, Naruemon; Boujaoude, Saouma B. – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2010
This project aims to investigate how process drama promotes scientific literacy in the context of global warming. Thirty-one lower (n = 24) and upper (n = 7) secondary students of one secondary school in Bangkok, Thailand participated in a seven-day workshop which process drama strategy was implemented. In the workshop, the students were actively…
Descriptors: Scripts, Participant Observation, Documentaries, Workshops