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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Panayiotou, Anastasia; Charalambous, Evi – Routledge Research in Education, 2020
Quality and Equity in Education draws attention to the importance of developing and testing theories of educational effectiveness and using these theories for improvement purposes. It makes a major contribution to knowledge and theory building in research on promoting quality and equity in education. The book presents an improved version of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Equal Education, Educational Theories, Instructional Effectiveness
Chabbott, Colette – Teachers College Press, 2015
Health for All and Education for All have been rallying cries for a host of international development activities for more than a quarter century. Where did these global goals come from? Why have the health goals seemingly advanced so much faster than those in education? In this book, author Colette Chabbott explores the foundational role that…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Access to Education, Global Approach, Innovation
Bickel, Robert – Guilford Publications, 2007
This book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to multilevel modeling, a powerful tool for analyzing relationships between an individual level dependent variable, such as student reading achievement, and individual-level and contextual explanatory factors, such as gender and neighborhood quality. Helping readers build on the statistical…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Social Sciences, Statistical Analysis, Structural Equation Models
Bloom, Howard S. – MDRC, 2006
This chapter examines the core analytic elements of randomized experiments for social research. Its goal is to provide a compact discussion for faculty members, graduate students, and applied researchers of the design and analysis of randomized experiments for measuring the impacts of social or educational interventions. Design issues considered…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Research Design, Experiments, Social Science Research
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Rhodes, Christopher; Nevill, Alan – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2004
A survey of student satisfaction and dissatisfaction was undertaken within an undergraduate education studies cohort at a new university in the English Midlands. The cohort included both 'traditional' and 'non-traditional' students and represented an increasingly typical 'widened' community of students within higher education. This student-…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Surveys, Social Integration, Foreign Countries
Nel, Johanna – 1983
Overviews of the process of historical research and the writing of a successful historical essay or dissertation are presented. Historical research is defined as the systematic process of collecting and objectively evaluating data related to past occurrences to arrive at conclusions about the causes, effects, or trends of past events that may be…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Doctoral Dissertations, Essays, Expository Writing