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Missing Children in Educational Research: Investigating School-Based versus Household-Based Assessments in India
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Goodnight, Melissa Rae; Bobde, Savitri – Comparative Education, 2018
Including all children in large-scale educational studies is a pressing concern. Omitting certain types of children from studies can lead to skewed findings that promote inaccuracies about learning levels or educational quality. Increasingly, assessments are a method for investigating the quality of education systems, but national assessments are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Children, Research Methodology
Opening the Black Box: Prospects for Using International Large-Scale Assessments to Explore Classroom Effects
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Schmidt, William H.; Burroughs, Nathan A. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
In this article, the authors review International Large-Scale Assessment (ILSA)-based research over the last several decades, with specific attention on cross-national analysis of mean differences between and variation within countries in mathematics education. They discuss the role of sampling design and "opportunity to learn" (OTL)…
Descriptors: International Programs, Measurement, Educational Research, Cross Cultural Studies
Methodological Challenges in Researching Threshold Concepts: A Comparative Analysis of Three Projects
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Quinlan, K. M.; Male, S.; Baillie, C.; Stamboulis, A.; Fill, J.; Jaffer, Z. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2013
Threshold concepts were introduced nearly 10 years ago by Ray Land and Jan Meyer. This work has spawned four international conferences and hundreds of papers. Although the idea has clearly gained traction in higher education, this sub-field does not yet have a fully fledged research methodology or a strong critical discourse about methodology.…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Fundamental Concepts, Higher Education, Case Studies
Arts-Based Research: Trojan Horses and Shibboleths. The Liabilities of a Hybrid Research Approach. "What Hath Eisner Wrought?"
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Pariser, David – Canadian Review of Art Education: Research and Issues, 2009
The term "arts-based research" has been debated for some time now. In an article strongly in favor of this approach Bean (2007) identifies three species: "Research on the arts (italics in the original) (art history, visual and cultural studies, media studies etc.)...Research for the arts, refers to research into applied techniques, materials and…
Descriptors: Art, Research, Research Methodology, Research Problems
What Is Comparison? Methodological and Philosophical Considerations.
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Raivola, Reijo – Comparative Education Review, 1985
Analyzes the concept of comparison as a methodological problem in cross-cultural studies and comparative education. Outlines five types of relationships that rely on equivalence or comparability. Discusses the questions of whether the concepts under comparison correspond, how to measure correspondence, and how to resolve linguistic difficulties.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Uses of Sibling Data in Psychological and Educational Research.
Jensen, Arthur R. – 1979
The uses of data on siblings for educational and psychological research purposes are explained. Examples are based on empirical data. Five types of research problems, using sibling data, are explored: (1) statistical control of family background variance in psychological or educational studies which use analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) or multiple…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Covariance, Cognitive Measurement, Correlation