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Anais Roque; Amber Wutich; Alexandra Brewis; Melissa Beresford; Laura Landes; Olga Morales-Pate; Ramon Lucero; Wendy Jepson; Yushiou Tsai; Michael Hanemann – Field Methods, 2024
Community-based participant-observation purposefully combines participant-observation and community-based participatory research. While participant-observation is the core method of ethnography and foundational to cultural anthropology, community-based participatory research initially emerged from health and related applied sciences to align…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Participatory Research, Ethnography, Communities of Practice
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Hartman, Sara L.; Roberts, J. Kessa; Schmitt-Wilson, Sarah; McHenry-Sorber, Erin; Buffington, Pamela J.; Biddle, Catharine – Rural Educator, 2022
Rural schools in the United States serve more than 9.3 million students (Showalter et al., 2019), often possessing strengths and facing challenges that differ from their metropolitan and suburban counterparts. To attend to the unique context of rural schools and to encourage rural education research in key areas, the National Rural Education…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Education, Educational Research, Research Needs
Lauren Fox; Sara Howell; Ashley Kazouh; Elizabeth Paul; Jessica Peacock – Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2023
In North Carolina and across the nation, districts and schools struggle to recruit and retain effective teachers, especially teachers of color. For more than a decade, declining enrollments in educator preparation programs and rises in teacher vacancies and attrition rates, coupled with population growth and increasing demand for teachers, have…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Minority Group Teachers, Teaching (Occupation)
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Brunner, Lisa Ruth – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
Two-step immigration is now a well-established policy strategy in countries such as Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to retain so-called 'highly skilled,' or higher-wage, immigrants. However, as this paper argues, the specific recruitment and retention of post-secondary international students in some contexts has become a distinct three-step form…
Descriptors: Immigration, Higher Education, Skilled Workers, Student Recruitment
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Burford, James; Koompraphant, Ganon; Jirathanapiwat, Worrawan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
Academic mobility is an ancient phenomenon that has particular characteristics in an era of increasing internationalisation. However, surprisingly little has been published about academic mobility to Thailand, and available accounts in both Thai and English languages are dispersed and disconnected. This article addresses these challenges by…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational Research, Research Needs, Developing Nations
Richardson, Emily – Education Development Trust, 2018
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that 65.6 million people are forcibly displaced, having either crossed national borders or become internally displaced within their own countries. Of this estimate, over 22.5 million are refugees. Over half of the world's refugees are children. With an average length of…
Descriptors: Refugees, Teacher Role, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Certification
Nugent, Gwen C., Ed.; Kunz, Gina M., Ed.; Sheridan, Susan M., Ed.; Glover, Todd A., Ed.; Knoche, Lisa L., Ed. – Springer, 2016
This volume represents current and futuristic thinking of seminal rural education researchers, with the goal of providing perspectives and directions to inform the work of rural education research, practice, and policy. With an emphasis on leveraging collaboration among key rural education stakeholders, this title both outlines our current…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Researchers, Educational Research, Stakeholders
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Resch, Alexandra; Berk, Jillian; Akers, Lauren – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
An opportunistic experiment is a type of randomized controlled trial that studies the effects of a planned intervention or policy change with minimal added disruption and cost. This guide defines opportunistic experiments and provides examples, discusses issues to consider when identifying potential opportunistic experiments, and outlines the…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Research, Intervention, Educational Policy
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Helmer, Janet; Harper, Helen; Lea, Tess; Wolgemuth, Jennifer R.; Chalkiti, Kalotina – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2014
This paper explores the challenges of conducting systematic research, using our experiences of conducting a study to evaluate the effectiveness of ABRACADABRA, an online tool for early childhood literacy instruction as the contextual framework. By discussing how the research team resolved such perennial issues as high teacher turnover, low or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Computer Software, Literacy
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Weaver, Margaret – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2013
This review aims to capture projects, services, and approaches that are being used to ensure student success and sustainability across the stages (or transitions) of the student experience of higher education, where these extend the traditional role of the library, in the UK and internationally. The article examines why the student journey (and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Role, Student Adjustment, Transitional Programs
Wood, Michael B. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Choosing a post-secondary institution to further one's education is a significant decision in a person's life. Throughout the past three decades, the issue of college choice has been researched. Much of this research has dealt with factors that influence student choice. While the research on how and why students choose a post-secondary institution…
Descriptors: College Choice, Higher Education, Church Related Colleges, Research Needs
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Henry, Lisa R.; Hooker, Roderick S.; Yates, Kathryn L. – Journal of Rural Health, 2011
Purpose: A literature review was performed to assess the role of physician assistants (PAs) in rural health care. Four categories were examined: scope of practice, physician perceptions, community perceptions, and retention/recruitment. Methods: A search of the literature from 1974 to 2008 was undertaken by probing the electronic bibliographic…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Longitudinal Studies, Recruitment, Research Needs
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Obermeit, Katrin – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2012
Student recruitment is an increasingly important topic for universities worldwide. But in order to develop sophisticated recruitment strategies, recruitment officers need to have a clear understanding of how and why students choose colleges. This review compares the German and US research concerning university choice models, choice criteria and…
Descriptors: College Choice, Information Sources, Student Recruitment, Foreign Countries
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Siller, Michael; Morgan, Lindee; Turner-Brown, Lauren; Baggett, Kathleen M.; Baranek, Grace T.; Brian, Jessica; Bryson, Susan E.; Carter, Alice S.; Crais, Elizabeth R.; Estes, Annette; Kasari, Connie; Landa, Rebecca J.; Lord, Catherine; Messinger, Daniel S.; Mundy, Peter; Odom, Samuel L.; Reznick, J. Steven; Roberts, Wendy; Rogers, Sally J.; Schertz, Hannah H.; Smith, Isabel M.; Stone, Wendy L.; Watson, Linda R.; Wetherby, Amy M.; Yoder, Paul J.; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie – Journal of Early Intervention, 2013
Given recent advances in science, policy, and practice of early identification in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), questions about the effectiveness of early intervention have far-reaching service and policy implications. However, rigorous research evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of intervention programs for toddlers with ASD faces a…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Intervention, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism
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Bettinger, Thomas V. – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2010
While there is growing attention to sexual minorities in adult education (AE) and human resource development (HRD) literature, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have received very little attention in AE or in HRD research. This article captures methodological issues and concerns from LBGTQ-related research from…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, Ethics
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