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Buckley, Jeffrey; Adams, Latif; Aribilola, Ifeoluwapo; Arshad, Iram; Azeem, Muhammad; Bracken, Lauryn; Breheny, Colette; Buckley, Ciara; Chimello, Ismael; Fagan, Alison; Fitzpatrick, Daniel P.; Garza Herrera, Diana; Gomes, Guilherme Daniel; Grassick, Shaun; Halligan, Elaine; Hirway, Amit; Hyland, Tomás; Imtiaz, Muhammad Babar; Khan, Muhammad Bilal; Lanzagorta Garcia, Eduardo; Lennon, Paul; Manaf, Eyman; Meng, Jing; Mohd Sufian, Mohd Sufino Zuhaily; Moraes, Adrielle; Osterwald, Katja Magdalena; Platonava, Anastasia; Reid, Clodagh; Renard, Michèle; Rodriguez-Barroso, Laura G.; Simonassi-Paiva, Bianca; Singh, Maulshree; Szank, Tomasz; Tahir, Mehwish; Vijayakumar, Sowmya; Ward, Cormac; Yan, Xinyu; Zainol, Ismin; Zhang, Lin – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
A high level of transparency in reported research is critical for several reasons, such as ensuring an acceptable level of trustworthiness and enabling replication. Transparency in qualitative research permits the identification of specific circumstances which are associated with findings and observations. Thus, transparency is important for the…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Accountability
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Scott, John; Nichols, T. Philip – Research in Education, 2017
Recently, the possibilities for leveraging "big data" in research and pedagogy have given rise to the growing field of "learning analytics" in online education. While much of this work has focused on quantitative metrics, some have called for critical perspectives that interrogate such data as an interplay between technical…
Descriptors: Learning, Data Analysis, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
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Satiç, Canan Önal; Çiftçi, Hatime – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
This study aims to examine refusal strategies of Turkish learners of English and explore their perceptions of social factors that are influential in their strategy use. The study was conducted at a private university in the west of Turkey, and eighty Turkish L2 learners enrolled at an English language preparatory program participated in the study.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2016
This study aimed at investigating the preferred refusal strategies in Persian. 3047 refusals collected by 108 field workers as well as 376 refusals collected through face to face interviews were analyzed and classified according to the descriptions proposed by Liao (1994) and Liao and Bresnahan (1996). The frequencies of the resulting direct and…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Nonparametric Statistics, Statistical Analysis, Language Research
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Lee, Mun Woo; Han, Moon-sub; Hyun, Eun Ryung – Language Awareness, 2016
This study investigates the multilingual practices and ideologies of North Korean refugee students in neoliberal South Korean society. Language tracking forms were completed over a seven-day period and individual interviews about participants' perceptions of English, Chinese, South Korean, and North Korean were conducted. The findings show that…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Refugees, Second Language Learning, Neoliberalism
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Welikala, Thushari; Atkin, Chris – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2014
This article focuses on the process of conducting a research project which explored the university student experience across three different geopolitical contexts using students studying at an English university as co-inquirers. The project sample included students at different stages of their university experience (undergraduate, postgraduate and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Experience, Student Participation
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Osler, James E.; Webb, Renita L. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2014
The purpose of this study is to study how race, gender, values, attitudes and power perceptions of leaders contribute to the recruitment, retention, and training of African American female superintendents. This study is focused on African American female superintendents and their experiences that led to the acquisition of the position. The…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Women Administrators, Superintendents
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Turner, Heather A.; Finkelhor, David; Shattuck, Anne; Hamby, Sherry; Mitchell, Kimberly – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
This study sought to identify features of peer victimization that aggravate negative outcomes in children. The features that were assessed include "power imbalance," a commonly used criterion in defining bullying, and 5 other characteristics: injury, weapon involvement, Internet involvement, sexual content, and bias content. Three…
Descriptors: Victims, Peer Relationship, Bullying, Power Structure
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Spillane, James P.; Hunt, Bijou R. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2010
This study examines the work of US school principals from the perspective of their workday using a distributed perspective to frame the investigation. Using data on 38 school principals in one mid-sized urban school district in the US, it describes school principals' work practices, examining both the "focus" of that work and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Multivariate Analysis, Principals, Statistical Analysis
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Zossou, Esperance; Van Mele, Paul; Vodouhe, Simplice D.; Wanvoeke, Jonas – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2009
This article deals with the comparison of the conventional training based on two day community workshops and farmer-to-farmer video used as methodologies for the dissemination of improved rice parboiling process in Benin. From November 2007 to May 2008, we interviewed 160 women and 17 women groups who had been exposed to both, one or other of the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Agricultural Occupations, Rural Extension, Females
Buttram, Joan L.; Pizzini, Eric – Delaware Education Research & Development Center, 2009
The Delaware Education Research and Development Center (DERDC) conducted a two-part study to determine the impacts of this program on participating schools in the state. In the first part, DERDC interviewed a sample of administrators and teachers from 6 of the 15 participating schools. Their responses helped design a survey that was administered…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Program Effectiveness
Jovick, Thomas D. – 1978
This paper describes the methodology used to analyze interview data on school control structures in the Management Implications of Team Teaching (MITT) project. Project MITT looked at school decision issues and their control structures, and at the people making or being governed by those decisions, to test how types of school decisions are related…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Interviews, Multidimensional Scaling, Power Structure
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Katz, Susan J. – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2006
The public school superintendency is the most powerful position in U.S. schools. Yet research has shown that women who hold the position have difficulty talking about power (Brunner, 2000). I designed a mixed methods study to investigate how women school superintendents viewed their uses of power. A survey was sent to all women superintendents…
Descriptors: Females, Data Analysis, Women Administrators, Superintendents