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Zeivots, Sandris; Vallis, Carmen; Raffaele, Catherine; Luca, Edward J. – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
Design thinking is becoming more commonly used as a collaborative, problem-solving approach in higher education outside design disciplines. With the pivot to remote and online learning in response to Covid-19 and lockdown measures, many educators have had to rethink their practice and collaboration in design thinking, without the usual recourse to…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Online Courses
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Beall, Jeffrey – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2017
This commentary examines the problem of predatory journals, low-quality open-access journals that seek to earn revenue from scholarly authors without following scholarly publishing best practices. Seeking to accept as many papers as possible, they typically do not perform a standard peer review, leading to the publication of improperly vetted…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Peer Evaluation, Educational Research, Educational Quality
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Smith, Garnett J.; Schmidt, Matthew M.; Edelen-Smith, Patricia J.; Cook, Bryan G. – Exceptional Children, 2013
A tension exists between educational practitioners and researchers, which is often attributed to their dichotomous and oftentimes polarizing professional ideologies or Discourse communities. When determining what works in education, researchers tend to emphasize evidencebased practices (EBPs) supported by research that is rigorous and internally…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
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McMullen, Mary Benson – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2010
This reflective essay describes the author's experiences as an observer in a behaviorist infant classroom. The author developed four categories of practice to describe what happened in the behaviorist infant room: (1) curricular focus on training typically developing infants to meet typical developmental milestones, (2) the use of highly…
Descriptors: Infants, Constructivism (Learning), Observation, Child Care