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Download full textMoffett, David W.; Zhou, Yunfang; Reid, Barbara K. – Online Submission, 2009
The Investigators studied effects of Candidates' 10 day unit plans of instruction through prescribed action research projects, across academic years 2007-2008 and 2008-2009. Results of the spring term '07-'08 Action Research projects informed the Unit in such a way that modifications were possible and made across programs. This resulted in…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Research Projects, Action Research, Interrater Reliability
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Direct linkSanchez, Patricia – New Directions for Youth Development, 2009
This article discusses a participatory action research (PAR) project carried out with three transnational Latina youth in northern California and how the university researcher incorporated Chicana feminist strategies in the study. PAR and Chicana feminism place at the heart of research the knowledge that ordinary people produce, referring to this…
Descriptors: Feminism, Action Research, Collaborative Writing, Participatory Research
Walter, Pierre – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2009
This paper examines how local knowledge is employed in environmental adult education in a community-based ecotourism project in an island community in southern Thailand. The study is based on field research and analysis of project websites, media reports and documents. Situated at the intersection of global tourism and a local Thai-Malay Muslim…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Tourism, Adult Education, Foreign Countries
FitzPatrick, Kathleen A.; Campisi, Jay – Advances in Physiology Education, 2009
Many undergraduate institutions offer individual research opportunities for upper-level students in independent study courses and summer undergraduate research programs. These are necessarily limited to a small number of students. Greater numbers of students can benefit from incorporating student-directed investigative experiences into…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Writing (Composition), Investigations, Independent Study
Bergmark, Ulrika; Kostenius, Catrine – Improving Schools, 2009
This article focuses on student participation in the research process as a contribution to school improvement. The specific aim of this article was to explore students' participation in different phases of a research process and discuss how their participation can contribute to school improvement. Based on a life-world phenomenological ontology,…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Action Research, Student Participation, Educational Improvement
Noyes, Andrew – Improving Schools, 2009
This article considers participation in post-compulsory mathematics education (Advanced or A-level) which is currently exercising education policy-makers in England and elsewhere. I argue that the central problem is neither that of devising an economically motivated strategy for increasing student numbers nor simply raising the level of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Student Participation
Puma, Jini; Bennett, Laurie; Cutforth, Nick; Tombari, Chris; Stein, Paul – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2009
This instrumental case study documents a community-based participatory evaluation research (CBPER) project that involved a community partner, two graduate students, a faculty member, and an external funder. It highlights the fact that a participatory evaluation model is a viable way to conduct community-based research (CBR) when a community…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Evaluation Research, Community Organizations, Evaluation Methods
Williamson, Ben; Morgan, John – Curriculum Journal, 2009
This article explores the implications for teacher education and continuous professional development (CPD) of enquiry-based learning, by drawing specifically on data collected during a four-year curriculum development and research project, Enquiring Minds (2005-9). Within the partnership approach to curriculum design endorsed by the project,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Educational Research, Educational Change
Barratt, Caroline Cason; Nielsen, Kristin; Desmet, Christy; Balthazor, Ron – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2009
This study describes a collaborative research project between two composition instructors and two librarians that analyzed citation patterns among students in the First-year Composition Program at the University of Georgia. Built upon earlier bibliometric studies, this study seeks not only to examine a large data set of citations--larger than was…
Descriptors: Student Research, Cooperation, Writing Instruction, Librarians
Hughes, Hilary – Middle School Journal (J3), 2009
As Jackson and Davis noted, "the main purpose of middle grades education is to promote young adolescents' intellectual development. It is to enable every student to think creatively, to identify and solve meaningful problems, to communicate and work well with others, and to develop the base of factual knowledge and skills that is the essential…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Early Adolescents, Individualized Instruction, Intellectual Development
Shek, Daniel T. L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2009
The organization and research programs of the Social Welfare Practice and Research Centre (SWPRC) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong are outlined. There are five regular research programs (Family and Group Practice Research Centre, Human Behavior and the Social Environment Research Program, Mutual Aid and Social Capital Research Program,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Projects, Foreign Countries, Social Environment
El-Tayeb, Mahmoud N.; El Nashar, Mohamed; Zeid, Mai M.; El-Sayed, Magda; Ramadan, Mohamed A.; Hamdi, Safia M.; El-Affy, Nabila; Ebeid, Amina K.; El-Marasi, Sonia S.; Abou-Elmahty, Maher – Online Submission, 2010
Through directing concerted efforts and educational services of seven Faculties of Helwan University towards socially underprivileged pupils in slum areas (EL-Marg area in big Cairo) this research project had two main aims: firstly, modifying a set of arbitrary behaviors of those pupils, in a trial to develop some behavior skills associated with…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Behavior Problems, Research Projects, Self Esteem
Roberts, Josie; Bolstad, Rachel – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2010
The New Zealand Council for Educational Research's (NZCER's) Families and Communities Engagement (FACE) project is investigating ideas and practices involved in bringing together teachers, families, local communities and students to contribute to collective conversations and decisions about education. This report concerns a sub-project of FACE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Researchers, Student Role
Peters, Ray DeV.; Bradshaw, Alison J.; Petrunka, Kelly; Nelson, Geoffrey; Herry, Yves; Craig, Wendy M.; Arnold, Robert; Parker, Kevin C. H.; Khan, Shahriar R.; Hoch, Jeffrey S.; Pancer, S. Mark; Loomis, Colleen; Belanger, Jean-Marc; Evers, Susan; Maltais, Claire; Thompson, Katherine; Rossiter, Melissa D. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
Although comprehensive and ecological approaches to early childhood prevention are commonly advocated, there are few examples of long-term follow-up of such programs. In this monograph, we investigate the medium- and long-term effects of an ecological, community-based prevention project for primary school children and families living in three…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Quasiexperimental Design, Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
Northcote, Maria; Mildenhall, Paula; Marshall, Linda; Swan, Paul – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Over the last decade, interactive whiteboards have become popular teaching and learning tools, especially in primary school classrooms. Research studies from recent literature report on high levels of student motivation, teacher enthusiasm and whole-school support associated with these technological tools. Much research to date has reported on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Research Projects, Student Motivation
