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Bienkowski, Marie; Gerard, Sarah Nixon; Rubin, Shawn; Sanford, Cathy; Borrelli-Murray, Dana; Driscoll, Tom; Arora, Jessie; Hruska, Mike; Beck, Katie; Murray, Thomas; Hoekstra, Jason; Gannes, Stuart; Metz, Edward; Midgley, Steve; Castilla, Stephanie; Tomassini, Jason; Madda, Mary Jo; Chase, Zac; Martin, Erik; Noel, Marcus; Styles, Kathleen – Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2015
Opportunities abound for software designers and developers to create impactful tools for teachers, school leaders, students, and their families. This guide for developers, startups, and entrepreneurs addresses key questions about the education ecosystem and highlights critical needs and opportunities to develop digital tools and apps for learning.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Design, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Pascale, Pietro J.; Pascale, Jeannie S. – 1976
Trend analysis is explained in nontechnical language with examples given for both parametric and nonparametric situations. Similarities and differences between parametric and nonparametric trend analyses are conveniently charted. Practical research applications for Directors of Testing and Directors of Institutional Research are stressed. A linear…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Design, Research Methodology, Statistical Analysis
Dereshiwsky, Mary I. – 1992
Educational practitioners tend to resist or avoid doing educational research primarily for two reasons: their prior experience with statistics, computers, and research design has produced insecurity and anxiety; and, they have acquired a basic misunderstanding of the nature and purpose of research. Good research should be both technically sound…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Data Collection, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Traudt, Paul J. – 1979
This paper discusses the utility of an ethnographic method that incorporates various participant observation techniques in providing information about family television viewing. It presents arguments for a naturalistic case study approach focusing on family-media interaction and suggests three methods of data collection: interviews and followups;…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Ethnography, Family Life, Family (Sociological Unit)
Moshier, Kenneth – 1978
This module on research design in vocational education is one of a set of five on evaluation and research and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules constituting a core curriculum for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home economics, and industrial education. Following…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Core Curriculum, Higher Education, Learning Activities
Mayer, Victor J.; Monk, John S. – 1983
Work on the development of the intensive time-series design was initiated because of the dissatisfaction with existing research designs. This dissatisfaction resulted from the paucity of data obtained from designs such as the pre-post and randomized posttest-only designs. All have the common characteristic of yielding data from only one or two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Law, Alexander I.; Bronson, William H. – 1977
This guide was designed for trainers presenting inservice workshops for program evaluators, teachers, principals, curriculum specialists, and others responsible for school programs. It is keyed to a companion volume, the Program Evaluator's Guide (ED l42 563), the primary source for workshop participants. Developed under the California Evaluation…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators