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Shaw, Alicia – Education, 2022
There are many studies that indicate the earlier children start to learn, the less likely they will be to repeat grades or commit crimes. The purpose of this information is to review research pertaining to preschool programs. The research will review positive and negative components of preschool programs and any correlations between early…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Educational Research
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Piotrowski, Chris; King, Chula – Education, 2020
Bibliometric analyses elucidate our understanding of a rapidly expanding body of literature, such as emerging scholarship on MOOCs. Study 1 reports on a content analysis of journals-based MOOCs seminal research indexed in the database ProQuest. Findings indicated that the most prominent topical areas of investigatory interest are: disruptive…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Research, Bibliometrics, Educational Change
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Lyubartseva, Ganna; Arthur, Cheyenne – Education, 2022
Chemistry as science is known to be objective and neutral. However, numerous studies indicate that historically recognition of women's contributions to chemistry, including Nobel Prize, is far from objective and often based on cultural forms and gender bias. In this work, we analyzed gender and age of Nobel Laureates in Chemistry at the time of…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Females, Scientific Research, Awards
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Fenner, Christopher J.; Pitrowski, Chris – Education, 2017
Since the advent of Facebook, researchers across academic disciplines have examined the nature and scope of scholarship regarding this SNS. Based on a content analysis approach, Piotrowski (2012) reported that many popular issues in the media on the topic of Facebook are largely ignored by research investigators. Due to the proliferation of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Content Analysis, Educational Research, Journal Articles
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Franco, Myra Suzanne – Education, 2019
For over 25 years, my lecture driven teaching strategies that included passive learning outcomes has prevailed in my K12 and higher education teaching. The requirement to help doctoral students identify and understand their epistemology, ontology and worldview within a research methods class created a dilemma regarding the appropriateness of…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Learning Theories, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods
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Snell, Joel – Education, 2018
There are significant boundary problems when comparing spurious with more accurate science. Numerous variables impact on creating a product (like a medication) or service (a special education strategy) that is valid and reliable. Thus, the author has tried to design a paradigm that when one is researching a new area as an example, the individual…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Drug Therapy, Court Litigation, Case Studies
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Caldarella, Paul; Rajesh Lulla, Saanya – Education, 2022
High school is a time of changes in adolescents' physical, psychological, social, and sexual development, often resulting in stress and anxiety. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to mental health problems. Yoga is an Indian discipline practiced globally for health and relaxation. School-based yoga programs are becoming increasingly common…
Descriptors: High School Students, Adolescents, Physical Activities, Mental Health
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Aljaad, Nawal Hamad Mohmad – Education, 2017
This research aims at finding out the educational usages of "Whatsapp" by the Saudi female students who are involved in the College of Education at King Saud University. To achieve the goal of this study, the researcher uses a simple sample of (122) female students from the Education College of King Saud University, which is chosen…
Descriptors: Females, Social Media, Electronic Publishing, Curriculum Development
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Snell, Joel – Education, 2018
OTHERISM is the disuniting of a country or varying sizes of groups. Otherism is the process of unconsciously planned and contradictory "preparation" to "push" an individual(s) "out" of a group to "defend" against the entry of a person into a group or arrange "downward" in rank the person in the…
Descriptors: Alienation, Qualitative Research, Interaction, Group Membership
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Yardibi, Nursel – Education, 2014
The purpose of the study is to determine tendencies in educational sciences doctoral dissertations according to divisions, research methods and desings, data collection tools, data analysis techniques, and leadership levels in Turkey. This content analysis study has been desinged with qualitative research methods. This research has been limited by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Doctoral Dissertations, Content Analysis
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Golightly, Amy F.; Nottis, Katharyn E. K. – Education, 2017
Many undergraduates in privileged positions mistakenly feel that we live in a post-racial society (e.g. Goodman, 1995; Osborne, Kriese, & Davis, 2013). Their prior knowledge about diversity can be limited and they can be unaware of what they do not know about cultural competence and intercultural sensitivity (e.g., Osborne et al., 2013;…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Knowledge Level, Cultural Pluralism, Concept Mapping
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Yard?b?, Nursel; Küçük, Fazil – Education, 2015
This study's aim is that to determine the requirements for school principals' selection and assignment conditions and to present these requirements' effects. Qualitative research design was used in this research, and also this study is content analysis research. School principals' selection and assignment conditions in Regulations between the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Personnel Selection, Job Placement
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Asiyai, Romina Ifeoma – Education, 2014
This study examined impediments to research among students of institutions of higher learning in Nigeria. The study was guided by one research question and three hypotheses. Data were collected from 600 final year students randomly selected from institutions of higher learning in Nigeria. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Problems, Student Research, Higher Education
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Wang, Jiawen; Selby, Karen L. – Education, 2017
In the spirit of scholarship in teaching and learning at the college level, we suggested and experimented with reading quizzes in combination with error analysis as one way not only to get students better prepared for class but also to provide opportunities for reflection under frameworks of mastery learning and mind growth. Our mixed-method…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Student Motivation
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Tolliver, David V., III; Miller, Michael T. – Education, 2018
African American men have not historically participated in higher education at the same levels or with the same success as others. And, as colleges and universities have sought to diversify their student populations, the rapidly increasing enrollment of Asian American and Hispanic students has illustrated the difficulty in trying to increase the…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Student Attitudes, Graduation
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