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Adam B. Wilson; William S. Brooks; Danielle N. Edwards; Jill Deaver; Jessica A. Surd; Obadiah J. Pirlo; William A. Byrd; Edgar R. Meyer; Amy Beresheim; Stephanie L. Cuskey; Jack G. Tsintolas; Eric S. Norrell; Harriet C. Fisher; Christopher W. Skaggs; Dmytro Mysak; Samantha R. Levin; Carlos E. Escutia Rosas; Andrew S. Cale; Md Nazmul Karim; Jenna Pollock; Nicholas J. Kakos; Monica S. O'Brien; Rebecca S. Lufler – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Growth in the online survey market may be increasing response burden and possibly jeopardizing higher response rates. This meta-analysis evaluated survey trends over one decade (2011-2020) to determine: (1) changes in survey publication rates over time, (2) changes in response rates over time, (3) typical response rates within health sciences…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Health Sciences, Educational Research
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Beckett, Lori; Nuttall, Amanda – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2017
The recent "JET Anniversary Virtual Special Issue," abbreviated here to JET@40, reproduced its very first editorial with selected articles from Britain and abroad published in subsequent decades. The journal first came into being as a response to damning criticism of the profession via government-sponsored reports and reviews but also to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Educational History, Publications
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Burns, Anne; Freeman, Donald; Edwards, Emily – Modern Language Journal, 2015
The overarching project of the conceptual and empirical contributions in this special issue is to redraw boundaries for language teacher cognition research. Our aim in this final article is to complement the foregoing collection of articles by conceptualizing ontologically and methodologically past and current trajectories in language teacher…
Descriptors: Language Research, Meta Analysis, Thematic Approach, Concept Mapping
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Tippett, Christine D. – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
The move from learning science from representations to learning science with representations has many potential and undocumented complexities. This thematic analysis partially explores the trends of representational uses in science instruction, examining 80 research studies on diagram use in science. These studies, published during 2000-2014, were…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Science Education, Research Methodology, Qualitative Research
D'Angelo, Cynthia M.; Rutstein, Daisy; Harris, Christopher J. – Educational Technology, 2016
This article presents a summary of the findings of a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature on computer-based interactive simulations for K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning topics. For achievement outcomes, simulations had a moderate to strong effect on student learning. Overall, simulations have…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Computer Simulation, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
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Cochran-Smith, Marilyn; Villegas, Ana Maria – Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This is the first of a two-part article that aims to chart the contemporary landscape of research on teacher preparation and certification. It is based on a review of more than 1,500 studies published between 2000 and 2012. Part 1 provides information about how the review was conducted and describes the theoretical/analytic framework the authors…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Certification, Educational Research, Literature Reviews
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Hung, Jui-Long; Zhang, Ke – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2012
This study investigated the longitudinal trends of academic articles in Mobile Learning (ML) using text mining techniques. One hundred and nineteen (119) refereed journal articles and proceedings papers from the SCI/SSCI database were retrieved and analyzed. The taxonomies of ML publications were grouped into twelve clusters (topics) and four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trend Analysis, Journal Articles, Databases
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Sugrue, Ciaran – Professional Development in Education, 2011
Consistent with the impact of globalisation and international social movements in general, the rather conservative and stable educational system in Ireland has been buffeted severely over the past two decades by a major acceleration in the pace of change and the extent of policy churn. Now that the Celtic Tiger has died, it is a time for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Transformative Learning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Anastas, Jeane W.; Kuerbis, Alexis N. – Social Work, 2009
Little is known about social work doctoral students and graduates: why they chose doctoral study, the kind of work they do, and the nature of their unique contributions to the profession. This article reviews past studies of doctoral education in social work in the context of general trends in doctoral education in the United States, underscoring…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Social Work, Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis
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Passig, David – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2009
Many have elaborated on the potential of virtual reality (VR) in learning. This article attempts at organizing the literature in this issue in order to better identify indicators that can account for future valid trends, and seeks to bring to attention how authors who wrote about the future of VR in education confused futures' terms and produced…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Literature Reviews, Computer Simulation, Educational Trends
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Yin, Robert K.; Schmidt, R. James; Besag, Frank – Peabody Journal of Education, 2006
The study of federal education initiatives that takes place over multiple years in multiple settings often calls for aggregating and comparing data-in particular, student achievement data-across a broad set of schools, districts, and states. The need to track the trends over time is complicated by the fact that the data from the different schools,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Effect Size, Achievement Tests, Meta Analysis
Fisher, R. Michael – Online Submission, 2003
The purpose of this study was to identify the initial terms and means of creating and assessing the quality of what the author calls "fear education" (analogous to sex education or health education). Using a review of a random sample of discourses from the educational literature, the author analyzes how "fear" and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fear, Technical Writing, Meta Analysis