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Billot, Jennie; Codling, Andrew – Management in Education, 2013
When higher education institutions seek to align their research goals with nationally driven imperatives, various members of the institutional community need to work in concert to achieve them. The identification of effective strategies and the development of a contextually appropriate research culture are fundamental elements to progressing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research, Goal Orientation
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Smith, Wayne – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2012
Background: The relationship between sport and exercise science (SES) and health and physical education (HPE) has been of interest to those of us involved in the general field of human movement studies in higher education for at least the last four decades. Purpose: The purpose of this research was to determine how the proposed merging of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Design, Physical Education, Physical Activities
Lai, Kwok-Wing – Teaching and Learning Research Initiative, 2014
In 2012-2013, sixteen senior secondary classes participated in this study, with eight of them being distance classes. Approximately 220 Year 11-13 students and 8 teachers took part in this study. This project aimed at designing and evaluating a computer-supported knowledge building community in senior secondary classes. Researchers sought to…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
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Nairn, Karen; Panelli, Ruth – Qualitative Inquiry, 2009
In research with young people about their experiences of rural and urban environments, the authors were struck by how participants in their rural case study used fiction to explain their experiences. The participants' use of fiction lead the authors to an additional rich vein of empirical material and analysis not foreseen at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Research Design, Qualitative Research, Critical Reading, Research Methodology