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Direct linkGoecks, Jeremy – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A social navigation system collects data from its users--its community--about what they are doing, their opinions, and their decisions, aggregates this data, and provides the aggregated data--community data--back to individuals so that they can use it to guide behavior and decisions. Social navigation systems empower users with the ability to…
Descriptors: Navigation (Information Systems), Social Networks, Computer System Design, Usability
Peer reviewedDonalson, Kathleen – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2009
The purpose of this case study was to explore the perceptions and experiences of one class of sixth grade middle students enrolled in a Title I reading class. The class consisted of 15 students. Through instrumental case study, qualitative data were collected over 24 weeks through (a) interviews, (b) observations, and (c) documents: student…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Basal Reading, Reading Programs, Standardized Tests
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
Kidd, Jacquie; Finlayson, Mary – Qualitative Inquiry, 2009
Autoethnographical research, though interesting and satisfying to conduct, presents a challenge to graduate students who are required to engage in data analysis to meet the needs of their degree. This article tells the collaborative story of how one such student balanced her academic, methodological, ethical, and personal imperatives and developed…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Data Analysis, Ethnography, Research Methodology
Stuber, Jenny M.; Watson, Amanda; Carle, Adam; Staggs, Kristin – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
Using publicly available data from RateMyProfessors.com, we explore whether an instructor's gender influences how students rate that instructor. Although RateMyProfessors.com may not accurately reflect quality teaching, it provides a unique window into how students construct their classroom experiences. Multiple regression analyses of 500…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, Evaluation Criteria
Miller, Jessie L.; Vaillancourt, Tracy; Boyle, Michael H. – Social Development, 2009
This study examined the heterotypic continuity of aggression hypothesis (physical to indirect) using independent teacher reports of aggression drawn from a nationally representative sample of 749 Canadian girls and boys. Confirmatory factor analysis using an accelerated longitudinal design confirmed a two-factor model of physical and indirect…
Descriptors: Aggression, Females, Factor Analysis, Males
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2009
Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count is a national initiative dedicated to the premise that community colleges should be as successful at student retention and graduation, particularly for students of color and low-income, as they are at enrollment. On campus, the initiative is focused on creating a culture of evidence, one in which data…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Holding Power, Academic Achievement, College Graduates
Lauren, Roy H. – Datamation, 1970
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Reliability
Schuh, K.L. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2004
In the study reported here, I compare Learner-Centered Battery (a questionnaire of students' perceptions of the classroom) results and the observation and interview data gathered in one sixth-grade classroom noting first a discrepancy between the descriptions of the classroom that stems from each. I review this discrepancy, highlighting a need for…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Data Collection
Download full textRafferty, Anna N., Ed.; Whitehill, Jacob, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Cavalli-Sforza, Violetta, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
The 13th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020) was originally arranged to take place in Ifrane, Morocco. Due to the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) epidemic, EDM 2020, as well as most other academic conferences in 2020, had to be changed to a purely online format. To facilitate efficient transmission of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teaching Methods, Information Retrieval, Data Processing
Blaich, Charles F.; Wise, Kathleen S. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
Most assessment arguments are about measurement. When is it better to use direct versus indirect measures of student learning? Is one standardized test of critical thinking better than another? Is applying rubrics to student work better than using standardized tests? How valid are self-reported measures of learning? Although these arguments are…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Liberal Arts
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
Randolph, Justus J. – Online Submission, 2008
Over the past thirty years, there has been much dialogue, and debate, about the conduct of educational technology research and development. In this brief volume, the author helps clarify that dialogue by theoretically and empirically charting the research methods used in the field and provides much practical information on how to conduct…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Research, Research and Development, Interdisciplinary Approach
Allen, Tiffany; Bronte-Tinkew, Jacinta – Child Trends, 2008
Many out-of-school time programs want to learn more about how the children and youth they serve are faring. Outcome evaluations allow programs to do just that. This brief provides a basic review of outcome evaluations, discusses why they are important and when they are useful, and presents guidelines, strategies, and techniques for their use in…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Evaluation Methods, Data Collection, Program Effectiveness
Ulusavas, Mualla – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this study is to determine what happens in Turkey in terms of implementation of the CRC (The Convention on the Rights of the Child) in general, with special reference to the right of education and to develop suitable recommendations in order to add some contribution to solve the main problems in early child development. A CRC-based…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Foreign Countries, Child Care, Child Development
