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Cherrstrom, Catherine A.; Robbins, Stacey E.; Bixby, John – Adult Learning, 2017
Academic publications provide insights into a discipline's history, knowledge base, and research norms, and thus analyzing publication activity provides learning about the field of study. To learn more about the field of adult and continuing education, this study used content analysis to examine 10 years of "Adult Learning" from 2006…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Journal Articles, Adult Learning, Continuing Education
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Anderson, Terry; Shattuck, Julie – Educational Researcher, 2012
Design-based research (DBR) evolved near the beginning of the 21st century and was heralded as a practical research methodology that could effectively bridge the chasm between research and practice in formal education. In this article, the authors review the characteristics of DBR and analyze the five most cited DBR articles from each year of this…
Descriptors: Evidence, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Research Design
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Coryn, Chris L. S.; Noakes, Lindsay A.; Westine, Carl D.; Schroter, Daniela C. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2011
Although the general conceptual basis appeared far earlier, theory-driven evaluation came to prominence only a few decades ago with the appearance of Chen's 1990 book "Theory-Driven Evaluations." Since that time, the approach has attracted many supporters as well as detractors. In this paper, 45 cases of theory-driven evaluations, published over a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Program Evaluation, Educational Practices, Literature Reviews