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Ali, Amal K. – Qualitative Report, 2005
This paper shows how the Delphi technique was used to conceptualize and operationalize local planning agency power. In the first of two Delphi studies, twelve scholars suggested four dimensions of agency power: legal authority, degree of control, relative autonomy, and capacity. In the second Delphi study, sixteen professional planners…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Power Structure, Public Agencies, Regional Planning
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Skelly, Sonja M.; Bradley, Jennifer Campbell – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2007
This article summarizes a 2000 study of school garden programs and their variation and the impact of such variation on 427 third-grade students' sense of responsibility and attitudes toward science and the environment. A teacher questionnaire was developed to gain insight into how teachers use school gardens with their students and in their…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Classification, Gardening, Outdoor Education
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Stylianides, Marios; Pashiardis, Petros – International Journal of Educational Management, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to investigate the future of education (pre-primary, primary and secondary education) in Cyprus until the year 2020. Design/methodology/approach: A three-round Delphi forecasting technique is used in order to make predictions about the future of schools and schooling in Cyprus based on the opinions of a…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Prediction, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Hatcher, Tim; Colton, Sharon – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to highlight the results of the online Delphi research project; in particular the procedures used to establish an online and innovative process of content validation and obtaining "rich" and descriptive information using the internet and current e-learning technologies. The online Delphi was proven to be an…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Readability, Research Methodology, Content Validity
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Broekkamp, Hein; van Hout-Wolters, Bernadette – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
In the heated debate on the gap between educational research and practice, participants often defend single solutions based on monocausal problem analyses. This article aims to improve the quality of the debate by encouraging participants to take a many-sided perspective. To this purpose, we first reviewed the literature and developed an inventory…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Educational Research, Adoption (Ideas), Theory Practice Relationship
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Hogard, Elaine – American Journal of Evaluation, 2007
This article introduces a novel consultative method termed reconstitutive ethnography, considered useful for the in-depth description and analysis of the interaction between professional and client in the delivery of a health or social care program. The article contextualizes this method in process evaluation generally and specifically in what the…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Ethnography, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
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Rice, Kerry – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
The Delphi Method of group communication was used with experienced distance education stakeholders in the United States from the areas of research, policy, and practice to identify priorities in K-12 distance education over the next five years. Data from the three rounds of this study were organized and compared using descriptive statistics. The…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Delphi Technique, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Policy
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Oliver, Kevin; Moore, John – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2008
A gap analysis of web tools in Engineering was undertaken as one part of the Digital Library Network for Engineering and Technology (DLNET) grant funded by NSF (DUE-0085849). DLNET represents a Web portal and an online review process to archive quality knowledge objects in Engineering and Technology disciplines. The gap analysis coincided with the…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Educational Technology, Library Networks, Engineering Education
Johnson, L.; Adams, S. – New Media Consortium, 2011
This paper reflects a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the JISC Innovation Support Centres, CETIS and UKOLN. The research underpinning the report makes use of the NMC's Delphi-based process for bringing groups of experts to a consensus viewpoint, in this case around the impact of emerging technologies on teaching,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scholarship, Comparative Education, Educational Policy
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Ellis, Mark W.; Malloy, Carol E.; Meece, Judith L.; Sylvester, Patricia R. – Learning Environments Research, 2007
As part of a research project examining relationships between instructional practices and student cognitive and social outcomes in middle-school mathematics classes, external observers and students reported perceptions of teachers' instructional practices. The extent to which students in classrooms identified by external raters as reform-oriented…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Educational Change, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Herbert, Margaret E.; Dionne, Jean-Paul – 1996
The cognitive processes of planning operationalize many of the metacognitive abilities necessary for transfer of knowledge. A telephone survey of 30 adults and Delphi methodology were used to explore the vocabulary and content of the mental representations of the nature and function of planning as perceived by experts in cognitive psychology…
Descriptors: Adults, Business, Cognitive Psychology, Definitions
Lucas, Richard Edward – 1986
Based on individual efforts to establish qualitative criteria, perceptions about computer generated art as an art form within the broader range of traditional artistic expression are disjointed. The formalized, heuristic approach taken for this inquiry into the developing aesthetics of computer art consisted of an interactive survey known as the…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Computer Graphics, Delphi Technique, Evaluation Criteria
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Stephens, Gene; Tafoya, William L. – Futurist, 1985
How to apply futuristic approaches to crime and justice in an effort to prevent crime and deal more effectively with offenders is described. Planning, brainstorming, using the Delphi method, and opinion polling are discussed. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Crime, Crime Prevention, Delphi Technique, Futures (of Society)
Jackson, Jerlando F. L. – 2002
This paper represents the initial step toward developing a model for retaining administrators of color at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) in higher and postsecondary education. Retaining administrators of color is an important measure for diversity in higher education. Data for this paper were derived from two Delphi studies that explored…
Descriptors: Administrator Selection, Administrators, Delphi Technique, Diversity (Institutional)
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Buriak, Philip; Shinn, Glen C. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 1989
A four-phase Delphi procedure collected opinions from deans of agriculture and education and directors of agricultural experiment stations. The consensus of these decision makers was that agricultural research missions and initiatives should be focused to take advantage of knowledge and talents in the field; clustered to reflect the focus of…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Agricultural Education, Delphi Technique, Educational Research
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