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Mary Quirke; Conor Mc Guckin; Patricia McCarthy – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2022
This case study explores how Mary Quirke aimed to engage in Inclusionary Research for her doctoral research project and how her "Inclusion as Process" approach depended on and related to an "Ethics as Process" approach. The case study explains "Inclusion as Process" as an approach to research and discusses ethical…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Research Problems, Research Methodology, Case Studies
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Hardy, Jessica K.; McLeod, Ragan H.; Sweigart, Chris A.; Landrum, Timothy – Infants and Young Children, 2022
The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast frameworks for evaluating methodological rigor in single case research. Specifically, research on high-probability requests to increase compliance in young children was evaluated. Ten studies were identified and were coded using 4 frameworks. These frameworks were the Council for Exceptional…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Research Methodology, Probability, Compliance (Psychology)
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Ipe, Rebecca – Global Studies of Childhood, 2019
This article provides an overview of the ethical tensions of preparing for ethnographic research with children in a rural district in Karnataka, India. Such children are at the receiving end of policy and international organisation interest, which alternately frames them as both victims of poverty and conflict and as agents of potential change in…
Descriptors: Ethics, Research Problems, Ethnography, Case Studies
Todd Zoblotsky; Carolyn R. Kaldon – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
Good research in education is defined as randomized experiments. For a study to be eligible to earn the highest possible rating from the What Works Clearinghouse (Meets WWC Standards without Reservations), the arbiter of what constitutes rigorous research within the U.S. Department of Education, it must use random assignment to determine group…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Research Problems, Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Research
Cockley, Suzanne – 1993
This guide is designed to assist adult educators who are also first-time practitioner-researchers. It is organized in three parts. Part 1 is an introduction to practitioner research. The following steps of designing and conducting a research project are examined in a section on strategies and methods: identify a research question, collect data,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Educational Research, Guidelines
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Frost, Susan H.; Jean, Paul M.; Teodorescu, Daniel; Brown, Amy B. – Review of Higher Education, 2004
How do intellectual initiatives across disciplines evolve? This qualitative case study of 11 interdisciplinary research initiatives at Emory University identifies key factors in their development: the passionate commitments of scholarly leaders, the presence of strong collegial networks, access to timely and multiple resources, flexible practices,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Universities, Educational Research
Nickel, K. N. – 1979
The failure of educational research to fully allow for limitations in methodology when drawing conclusions is faulted. In addition to this, a failure on the part of the media--educational and other--to fully publicize these limitations is also criticized. Methodological shortcomings of the 1977-78 American Institutes of Research (AIR) study of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Control Groups, Data Collection