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Hale, Jon; Nelson, Andy – School Science Review, 2022
Plant identification is a skill that takes years to hone and develop, yet it is important in understanding diversity in biology while in school. This is highlighted when studying ecological succession in A-level biology where students are often unable to notice the different species, which leads to the production of poor-quality data, potentially…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Ecology, Surveys, Biology
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Gray, Peter; Solomon, Autumn Erdahl; Tatgenhorst, Leah – American Journal of Play, 2022
The authors surveyed public libraries to learn about the opportunities for play they offered and children's freedom to engage in such play without adult supervision. The authors conclude that, in recent years, public libraries in the United States have increasingly created spaces and programs enabling free play for children and teens. These…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Play, Library Role, Surveys
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Gunnlaugur Magnússon; Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir – Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2024
The OECD is an inevitable force in contemporary education. This paper illustrates how the OECD affects recent education policy-making in Iceland with a particular focus on recent documents establishing the new Education Policy 2030 in Iceland and on OECD reports that directly relate to this policy. We illustrate the relationship between these…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Foreign Countries, International Organizations
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Buckley, Alex – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
Much is made of students generally rating assessment lower than other aspects of their educational experience. It is frequently cited in research literature as evidence for a general crisis in assessment, and it strongly influences institutional enhancement efforts and media coverage of student feedback. Focusing on the UK's National Student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Surveys, Student Surveys, College Students
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Rodriguez, Sophia; Acree, Jeremy – American Journal of Evaluation, 2021
This article problematizes methodological practices, specifically the use of surveys as tools of measurement in evaluation with migrant youth. Drawing from Foucault's "Genealogy of Ethics," we investigate the knowledge created about particular minoritized groups through the author's current evaluation, the power relations involved, and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Surveys, Migrants, Youth
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Aizpurua, Eva; Park, Ki H.; Heiden, Erin O.; Losch, Mary E. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2021
In this study, we examine the effect of providing examples in the responses to a question about multitasking. Respondents were randomly assigned to one of the three experimental conditions: the first group received one set of examples (watching TV or watching kids), the second group received a different set of examples (walking or talking with…
Descriptors: Telephone Surveys, Questioning Techniques, Questionnaires, Responses
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Adisa, Toyin Ajibade; Harrison, Michael; Sani, Kareem Folohunso; Mingazova, Diliara; Kypuram, Jaya – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
Has the National Student Survey 'customerized' the UK's university students? This article examines the 'customerization' of university students in the UK and the impacts of reciprocity and social exchange behaviour on National Student Survey outcomes. Using a multi-method qualitative approach, the findings suggest that the National Student Survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, National Surveys, College Students
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Thiel, Jonas – British Educational Research Journal, 2019
The UK National Student Survey (NSS) has high status on the agenda of UK universities. Its rise in status is linked to its influence on national rankings and associated funding streams referenced to the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). Consequently, many universities have implemented further assessments of student satisfaction, thereby putting…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Student Surveys, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism
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Lamprianou, Iasonas – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
Recruiting participants through gatekeepers has been widely discussed in qualitative research. However, when a sampling frame is not available, surveying through gatekeepers can also be important for quantitative studies. We used three sampling methods to survey guardians of University students: (a) a gatekeeper variant of the time-space sampling,…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Social Science Research, Qualitative Research, Sampling
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Zvyagintsev, Roman; Konstantinovskiy, David; Pinskaya, Marina; Kosaretsky, Sergey – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
This article presents a study on the occupational well-being of Russian teachers that is based on data from "Monitoring of Education Markets and Organizations 2015-2016," an educational monitoring system representative of teachers in Russia (for a total of 2,014 teachers) (Memo Project, n.d.). The main research aims are to describe the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Conditions, Well Being
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Stefanie Vanbecelaere; Rani Van Schoors; Sohum Bhatt; Kamakshi Rajagopal; Dries Debeer; Fien Depaepe – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study explores the role of teachers' perceptions of digital personalised learning (DPL) tools in their intention to use and actual usage of these tools in the classroom. Utilizing the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), we address two gaps in the literature: the limited investigation of DPL in real-world settings and the reliance on…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Individualized Instruction, Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries
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Dana Garbarski; Jennifer Dykema; Cameron P. Jones; Tiffany S. Neman; Nora Cate Schaeffer; Dorothy Farrar Edwards – Field Methods, 2024
Ethnoracial identity refers to the racial and ethnic categories that people use to classify themselves and others. How it is measured in surveys has implications for understanding inequalities. Yet how people self-identify may not conform to the categories standardized survey questions use to measure ethnicity and race, leading to potential…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Racial Identification, Classification, Error of Measurement
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Prasanna S. Premkumar; Santhosh Kumar Ganesan; Balaji Pandiyan; Dhivya Kumari Krishnamoorthy; Gagandeep Kang – Field Methods, 2024
Household expenditure data is at the core of efforts to measure living standards, inequality and financial protection against illness. Currently it is mainly derived from recall-based surveys that are time consuming and prone to measurement errors. Diaries are often used as an alternative approach, however this results in fatigue and low…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Diaries, Surveys
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Gabriella Roby Dodd; Cedric Gondro; Tasia M.Taxis; Margaret Young; Breno Fragomeni – NACTA Journal, 2024
The objectives of this study were to identify gaps in educational training for undergraduate and graduate students in agricultural data science, propose paths for filling these gaps, and provide an annotated list of resources currently available to different training levels. Data in this study was collected through three voluntary surveys catered…
Descriptors: Data Science, Statistics Education, Agriculture, Genetics
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Alisa Remizova; Maksim Rudnev; Eldad Davidov – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Individual religiosity measures are used by researchers to describe and compare individuals and societies. However, the cross-cultural comparability of the measures has often been questioned but rarely empirically tested. In the current study, we examined the cross-national measurement invariance properties of generalized individual religiosity in…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Surveys, Cross Cultural Studies, Social Values
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