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Direct linkJorunn Spord Borgen; Gunn Engelsrud – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
In this article, the authors address some of the scientific challenges associated with using observation as a research method. The authors ask how researchers contextualise and understand observation in terms of its theoretical underpinnings and how it is conducted. Using a vignette in the kindergarten context, the authors explore how observation…
Descriptors: Observation, Research Problems, Kindergarten, Young Children
Ling Zhang; Richard Allen Carter; Jeffrey A. Greene; Matthew L. Bernacki – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Educators and instructional designers have used the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to guide their design of inclusive instruction for students with and without disabilities. Despite UDL having entered its 4th decade of development and research, there have been ongoing critiques of UDL for lacking clarity in definition, challenges…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Program Implementation, Barriers, Preschool Education
Debbie Stott; Chronoula Voutsina – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2024
This paper aims to contribute to the advancement of methodological practice for phenomenographic research by introducing the notion of a "lens of awareness," as a device that can enable researchers to zoom into the detail of the research process (the parts of the whole) and out again to the related context of a phenomenographic study…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Research, Preschool Children, Numbers
Elizabeth Y. S. Boileau – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
Though there has been a marked increase in research driven by posthumanist theory and inspired by the common worlds research approach, practical approaches to conducting this type of research have not been well documented and shared within the literature. This article explores the process of navigating the planning and conducting of research that…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Young Children, Outdoor Education, Place Based Education
Youmi Suk – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
Regression discontinuity (RD) designs have gained significant popularity as a quasi-experimental device for evaluating education programs and policies. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of RD designs, focusing on the continuity-based framework, the most widely adopted RD framework. We first review the fundamental aspects of RD…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Preschool Education, Regression (Statistics), Test Validity
Corr, Catherine; Chudzik, Mia; Oh, Jisun R.; Love, Hailey R.; Snodgrass, Melinda R. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2023
The goal of the journal review process is to ensure that published manuscripts are of high quality and address important topics. Technical criteria about methodology, rigor, and clarity can impact how a manuscript is reviewed. However, journal reviewers rely on accumulated wisdom about credibility, accuracy, reasonableness, timeliness, and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Periodicals, Peer Evaluation
Vanessa Wintoneak; Mindy Blaise – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study discusses responsive walking methods from a yearlong river-child-walking project situated in early childhood education. Grounded by feminist anti-colonialism, this project reconfigured children's relations with a local river and challenged dominant, extractive methods of discovery. A behind-the-scenes approach is taken in this case…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Place Based Education, Decision Making, Case Studies
Han Qin; Konstanze Schoeps; Hongbiao Yin – European Journal of Education, 2024
Early childhood teachers' emotions have increasingly received the attention of researchers in the past decades. The present study conducted a systematic review of the research on early childhood teachers' emotions published in English up to 2022. Based on evidence from 103 empirical studies, the results presented the significant roles of early…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Teacher Characteristics, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Response
Download full textMirela Scortescu; Simona Sava – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2024
The initial training of future teachers in pre-primary and primary education is of major importance for the quality of education of pre-school and early school-age children. It involves preparing students, for a teaching career and involves both theoretical training and practical introduction to teaching. The practical part of training is done…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Coordinators
Jennifer Keys Adair – Teachers College Record, 2023
For decades, important early childhood scholars who critiqued normative ideas about early childhood frameworks, guidelines, and assessments have been silenced in highly ranked child development and early childhood journals. The qualitative methods needed to prioritize the perspectives of marginalized communities (i.e., ethnography, interview and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Learning Experience, Periodicals
Weiland, Christina; Unterman, Rebecca; Dynarski, Susan; Abenavoli, Rachel; Bloom, Howard; Braga, Breno; Faria, Ann-Marie; Greenberg, Erica H.; Jacob, Brian; Arnold Lincove, Jane; Manship, Karen; McCormick, Meghan; Miratrix, Luke; Monarrez, Tomás E.; Morris-Perez, Pamela; Shapiro, Anna; Valant, Jon; Weixler, Lindsay – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Jun Wang; Xue Wang; Qiyang Zhang; Hanhui Bao; Zhe Zhao; Amanda J. Neitzel – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of interventions can provide critical evidence for educators and policymakers by providing insights into the effectiveness of related interventions. The quality of included studies builds the foundation for a high-quality review, while bias in the included studies increases the risks of unreliable…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Research, Meta Analysis, Literature Reviews
Kenneth A. Frank; Qinyun Lin; Ran Xu; Spiro Maroulis; Anna Mueller – Grantee Submission, 2023
Social scientists seeking to inform policy or public action must carefully consider how to identify effects and express inferences because actions based on invalid inferences will not yield the intended results. Recognizing the complexities and uncertainties of social science, we seek to inform inevitable debates about causal inferences by…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Research Methodology, Statistical Inference, Robustness (Statistics)
Palmér, Hanna; Björklund, Camilla – Designs for Learning, 2022
This paper reports on a design oriented study conducted in close collaboration between two researchers and three preschool teachers. Within this study, a play-based interview script was designed in accordance with theoretically driven principles. Based on this script, the preschool teachers conducted interviews with children from three preschools…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Researchers, Cooperation, Interviews
Jørgensen, Hanne Hede – Journal of Pedagogy, 2023
In Danish early childhood education and care (ECEC), pedagogues traditionally work in a child-centred manner, valuing the children's experiences. During the last 150 years pedagogues have developed expertise in framing everyday life for children while paying double attention to the children's perspectives, on one hand, and to their own pedagogical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Play, Research Methodology
