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Decolonising Our Approaches to Educational Research: Learning from Our Shared Experiences at Rangahau Matauranga o Aotearoa (NZCER)
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Rosemary Hipkins; Nicola Bright; Rachel Bolstad; Bronwyn Gibbs; Janet Lee; Georgia Palmer; Esther Smaill – New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 2024
"Decolonising our approaches to educational research-- Learning from our shared experiences at Rangahau Matauranga o Aotearoa (NZCER)" shares insights from a recent workshop at NZCER focused on the questions, tensions and challenges our kairangahau are grappling with in research and evaluation. It includes a description of the workshop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decolonization, Educational Research, Workshops
A Laboratory Course for Teaching Laboratory Techniques, Experimental Design, Statistical Analysis, and Peer Review Process to Undergraduate Science Students
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Gliddon, C. M.; Rosengren, R. J. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2012
This article describes a 13-week laboratory course called Human Toxicology taught at the University of Otago, New Zealand. This course used a guided inquiry based laboratory coupled with formative assessment and collaborative learning to develop in undergraduate students the skills of problem solving/critical thinking, data interpretation and…
Descriptors: Toxicology, Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response)
Kitchen Table Discourse: Negotiating the "Tricky Ground" of Indigenous Research
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Johnson, Jay T. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2008
In this article, the author seeks a middle path through which to traverse the "tricky ground" of Indigenous research; a middle path that will hopefully find "in-between spaces" open to new epistemological pathways, through which new voices and ideas can be heard within the social sciences and, in particular, within geography.…
Descriptors: Geography, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
Literacy Research Methodology That Is Up to the Challenge
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Smyth, John; Whitehead, David – Language and Education, 2007
This paper outlines the methodological dimensions of the secondary literacy research evaluation that is the focus of this special issue-the New Zealand-based Secondary Schools' Literacy Initiative (SSLI). We argue that these methodological dimensions are an example of the type of contextualised and critical research that might be usefully applied…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Literacy
Students' Experiences of Learning in a Research Environment
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Robertson, Jane; Blackler, Gillian – Higher Education Research and Development, 2006
Research into the research-teaching "nexus" has undergone significant changes in focus and methodology. From an initial quantitative concern with correlating measurements of research productivity and teaching effectiveness, the empirical emphasis has shifted in favour of exploring the "experiences" of participants (academics…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Learning Experience, Instructional Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Educational Policy Analysis and the Politics of Interpretation: The Search for a Well-Defined Problem.
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Peters, Michael; Marshall, James – Evaluation Review, 1993
A methodology is developed for producing a well-designed problem in policy analysis. This evaluative context methodology is defined as an iterative process based on a series of checklist questions. Use of the methodology is demonstrated in a policy development project in New Zealand devoted to encouraging use of the Maori language. (SLD)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
A Study on Some Critical Aspects of Secondary Education in the Countries of Asia and the Pacific. Research Proposal. Report of a Regional Workshop (1st, Tokyo, Japan, June 17-July 10, 1986).
National Inst. for Educational Research, Tokyo (Japan). – 1986
A regional workshop on "The Study of Secondary Education in Asia and the Pacific" was attended by 18 participants from Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Western Samoa. The major objective of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Developing Nations, Educational Policy, Educational Research