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Rebecca A. Cruz; Catherine M. Kramarczuk Voulgarides; Allison R. Firestone; Logan McDermott; Zhihui Feng – Review of Educational Research, 2024
Research on disproportionate representation in special education has potential to influence policy in ways that rectify educational inequities. In this study, we investigated how disproportionality researchers have operationalized dis-ability, identified key themes and theories used in disproportionality research, and evaluated the coherence…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Disabilities, Special Education, Educational Policy
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Teplovs, Chris – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2015
This commentary reflects on the contributions to learning analytics and theory by a paper that describes how multiple theoretical frameworks were woven together to inform the creation of a new, automated discourse analysis tool. The commentary highlights the contributions of the original paper, provides some alternative approaches, and touches on…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Theory Practice Relationship, Instructional Design
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Hung, Woei – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
The success of an intervention depends not only upon its theoretical soundness, but also on proper implementation that reflects the guidelines derived from its theoretical conception. Debates surrounding the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) have focused on its theoretical conception and students' learning outcomes, but implementation…
Descriptors: Evidence, Problem Based Learning, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods
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Weis, Lois; Jenkins, Heather; Stich, Amy – Review of Educational Research, 2009
Evidenced in several now classic reviews of the field, much has been made of theoretical and methodological "difference" with regard to research in the sociology of education. Although such renditions often constitute important intellectual contributions, the authors suggest that it is increasingly important to read across theoretical and…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Educational Opportunities, Social Justice, Models
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Coggins, Truman E.; Sargent, Laura – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1992
This commentary on EC 602 595 questions cognitive referencing's validity as a model for allocating special services to young children with disabilities. The paper raises methodological issues in studies supporting use of the cognitive referencing model. These issues include the construct of delayed development, subject description, and use of a…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Models, Preschool Education, Research Methodology
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Reezigt, Gerry J.; Guldemond, Henk; Creemers, Bert P. M. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 1999
Tests an educational-effectiveness model by reanalyzing a large-scale dataset containing (Dutch) elementary school data of subsequent student cohorts, their teachers, and their schools. Researchers found some expected positive achievement effects of individual classroom and school factors, but these were unstable across school subjects and student…
Descriptors: Effective Schools Research, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Models
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Swanson, H. Lee – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
This paper provides a rationale for basic research and metatheory development in the field of learning disabilities, outlines the steps and cognitive parameters involved in validating such a metatheory, and discusses integrating the findings of basic research with instructional manipulations and reasons for the poor integration of theory and…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Models
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Donahue, Mavis L.; Pearl, Ruth – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2003
This paper urges researchers in learning disabilities not to embrace the risk/resilience framework without rigorous consideration of four issues: the meaning of risk and resilience factors; how to characterize learning disabilities as risk factors; just what the risk is; and how this framework may guide intervention efforts. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention
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Cziko, Gary A. – Educational Researcher, 1992
Discusses problems for educational research posed by the unpredictability and indeterminism of human behavior. Presents a theory of purposeful behavior (perceptual control theory) to provide an explicit working model of how individuals produce repeatable outcomes via variable means. Describes primary characteristics of this theory and its…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Theories, Chaos Theory, Educational Research
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Santesso, Nancy; Tugwell, Peter – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2006
There is increasing evidence that the application of knowledge in developing countries is failing. One reason is the woeful shortage of health workers, but as this is redressed, it is also crucial that we have an evidence base of what works to minimize the "know-do gap." The World Health Organization and other international organizations are…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Developed Nations, Child Health, Media Adaptation
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Cziko, Gary A. – Educational Researcher, 1992
Reiterates the author's convictions about the inadequacy of mainstream educational research. If perceptual control theory is correct in positing a closed-loop, negative feedback relationship between individuals and their environments, then current and mainstream educational research is not adequate for explaining purposeful behavior. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Theories, Educational Research, Educational Theories
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Pickles, Andrew; Pickering, Kevin; Taylor, Colin; Sutton, Stephen; Yang, Shuying – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2001
Describes a random effects discrete time survival model that addresses problems of measurement error and sample design complexities. Demonstrates the effectiveness of the model in an analysis of retrospective report data on the age of onset of smoking from two cross-sectional school-based studies. (JPB)
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Measurement Techniques, Models, Research Methodology
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Hedeker, Donald; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996
Methods are proposed and described for estimating the degree to which relations among variables vary at the individual level. As an example, M. Fishbein and I. Ajzen's theory of reasoned action is examined. This article illustrates the use of empirical Bayes methods based on a random-effects regression model to estimate individual influences…
Descriptors: Adults, Counseling, Influences, Models
Tessmer, Martin; Wedman, John – 1992
Findings of a study that determined the ways in which practicing administrative course developers utilize instructional design activities in their design projects are presented in this paper. A survey was administered to 30 participants in a training and development group within a large organization and mailed to 43 other practicing instructional…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Problems, Instructional Design, Measurement Techniques
Retallick, John A. – 1990
This paper contributes to an emerging rational reconstruction of the concept of educational leadership in a critical theory (or method) of education. This partly accomplished task is extended by appropriating and analyzing the social philosophy of Jurgen Habermas. In particular, the theory of communicative action and the notion of the ideal speech…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Critical Theory, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
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