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Kubanyiova, Magdalena – Modern Language Journal, 2008
The prominent current tendency in applied linguistics to situate its theory and research has seen parallel shifts in the type of research methodologies being employed. Increasingly, decontextualized laboratory methodologies are giving way to more holistic approaches, and these, in turn, involve a significant shift in the researchers' roles,…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Applied Linguistics, Ethics, Theory Practice Relationship
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Hurtz, Gregory M.; Jones, J. Patrick; Jones, Christian N. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2008
This study compares the efficacy of different strategies for translating item-level, proportion-correct standard-setting judgments into a theta-metric test cutoff score for use with item response theory (IRT) scoring, using Monte Carlo methods. Simulated Angoff-type ratings, consisting of 1,000 independent 75 Item x13 Rater matrices, were…
Descriptors: Monte Carlo Methods, Measures (Individuals), Item Response Theory, Standard Setting
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Cox, Judith E.; Nelson, Darwin B. – Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 2008
This article explores the relationship between thinking patterns and emotional skills identified by 2 research-derived measures of emotional intelligence that reflect integrative and positive theories of human behavior. Findings suggest implications for planning educational and counseling interventions to facilitate positive growth and future…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Relationship, Thinking Skills, Counseling
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Lingard, Bob; Gale, Trevor – Critical Studies in Education, 2007
Critical research in education is not what it used to be. It must now engage with a differently structured and globalized world with different social and material conditions for its peoples. This paper sets out to name the contemporary structure of feeling in which education researchers now work, particularly in terms of what now is to be the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Critical Theory, Empathy, Foreign Countries
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Renn, Kristen A. – Educational Researcher, 2010
In this article, the author provides an overview of existing literature addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and queer issues in higher education. She argues that although colleges and universities are the source of much critical and postmodern writing about LGBT and queer topics, scholarship on LGBT/queer people and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Methodology, Homosexuality, Social Science Research
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Feilzer, Martina Yvonne – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2010
This article explores the practical relevance of pragmatism as a research paradigm through the example of a piece of pragmatic research that not only used both quantitative and qualitative research methods but also exploited the inherent duality of the data analyzed. Thus, the article aims to make the case that pragmatism as a research paradigm…
Descriptors: Research Design, Qualitative Research, Methods Research, Models
Matusovich, Holly; Streveler, Ruth; Miller, Ron; Olds, Barbara – Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (NJ1), 2009
It is often assumed that graduating engineering students readily envision what it means to be an engineer and what type of work they will be doing as engineers in the future. How can one know if this is true? This research begins to answer these questions by aiming to understand undergraduate engineering students' perceptions of themselves as…
Descriptors: Engineering, Career Choice, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level
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Willse, John T.; Goodman, Joshua T. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2008
This research provides a direct comparison of effect size estimates based on structural equation modeling (SEM), item response theory (IRT), and raw scores. Differences between the SEM, IRT, and raw score approaches are examined under a variety of data conditions (IRT models underlying the data, test lengths, magnitude of group differences, and…
Descriptors: Test Length, Structural Equation Models, Effect Size, Raw Scores
Dooly, Melinda; O'Dowd, Robert – Peter Lang Bern, 2012
This book provides an accessible introduction to some of the methods and theoretical approaches for investigating foreign language (FL) interaction and exchange in online environments. Research approaches which can be applied to Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) are outlined, followed by discussion of the way in which tools and techniques for…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Action Research, Research Methodology
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Wells, Ryan – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: Many children of immigrants are not enrolled in high schools that sufficiently meet their needs, and subsequently, many are not making a successful transition to, and/or successfully completing, higher education. As immigration grows in the United States, educators and policy makers must understand how the educational processes…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Attendance, Academic Aspiration, Learning Processes
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Korn, Karen Abney; Watras, Joseph – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2009
To illustrate how theoretical studies should blend with empirical research, this article describes how scholars changed the ways they thought about schools and poverty. It begins with a historical review of the perspective of educational theorists and public policy prior to the 1970s. Taking a Marxist perspective, Bowles and Gintis (1976)…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Scholarship, Researchers, Attitudes
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Kinchin, Ian Miles; Hatzipanagos, Stylianos; Turner, Nancy – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2009
Development of a more scholarly approach to teaching at university may expose the novice university teacher to an apparent conflict in belief systems about teaching and learning (i.e. epistemological beliefs). Educational research is explicit in its recognition of a constructivist framework, whilst other academic research is often embedded more…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Research, Beliefs, Epistemology
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Ardoin, Scott P.; Roof, Claire M.; Klubnick, Cynthia; Carfolite, Jessica – Behavior Analyst Today, 2008
Curriculum-based measurement Reading (CBM-R) is an assessment procedure used to evaluate students' relative performance compared to peers and to evaluate their growth in reading. Within the response to intervention (RtI) model, CBM-R data are plotted in time series fashion as a means modeling individual students' response to varying levels of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Test Theory, Student Reaction, Intervention
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Barge, J. Kevin; Shockley-Zalabak, Pamela – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2008
Engaged scholarship represents one way for making our research relevant to organizational practitioners by bridging the gap between theory and practice. Engaged scholarship is viewed as a form of collaborative inquiry between academics and practitioners that leverages their different perspectives to generate useful organizational knowledge. We…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Scholarship, Cooperation, Inquiry
Wali, Esra; Winters, Niall; Oliver, Martin – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2008
Although mobile learning is a popular topic in current research, it is not well conceptualized. Many researchers rely on under-theorized conceptions of the topic, and those who have tried to refine the ideas involved have found this to be complex and difficult. In this paper a new interpretation of the concept "mobile learning" is offered, drawing…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Telecommunications, Physical Mobility, Educational Technology
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