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Reconciling Data from Different Sources: Practical Realities of Using Mixed Methods to Identify Effective High School Practices
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Smith, Thomas M.; Cannata, Marisa; Haynes, Katherine Taylor – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: Mixed methods research conveys multiple advantages to the study of complex phenomena and large organizations or systems. The benefits are derived from drawing on the strengths of qualitative methods to answer questions about how and why a phenomenon occurs and those of quantitative methods to examine how often a phenomenon…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, School Effectiveness, High Schools, Best Practices
The Hidden Curriculum of Performance-Based Teacher Education
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Rennert-Ariev, Peter – Teachers College Record, 2008
Purpose/Objective/Research question/Focus of study: This study describes and analyzes the student and faculty experiences of a "performance-based" preservice teacher education program at a large comprehensive university in the mid-Atlantic region. The aim is to understand the "hidden" curricular messages within the program and the ways that these…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Research Design, Rhetoric
Ambivalent Partners: Power, Trust, and Partnership in Relationships between Mothers and Teachers in a Full-Time Child Care Center
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McGrath, Wendy Hobbins – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: There is much rhetoric regarding "parents and teachers as partners" despite little evidence that such partnerships, as described in the early childhood education literature, actually develop. The literature on parent-teacher partnerships does not examine parents' and teachers' interactions or what those interactions mean to…
Descriptors: Research Design, Trust (Psychology), Mothers, Early Childhood Education
Racialized Space: Framing Latino and Latina Experience in Public Schools
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Barajas, Heidi Lasley; Ronnkvist, Amy – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background: Educational research shows differences in experience, access, and outcomes across racial groups with some groups advantaged and others disadvantaged. One of the concepts used to explain racial differences, racialization, is a taken-for-granted term that is yet to be fully defined in the context of the school. We differentiate the term…
Descriptors: Research Design, Race, Mentors, Research Universities
Human Capital or Human Connections? The Cultural Meanings of Education in Brazil
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Bartlett, Lesley – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: In the field of educational research, conventional wisdom holds that primary-level schooling, specifically literacy acquisition, promotes economic mobility for individuals and economic development for the nation. This belief is rooted in human capital theory, the causal argument claiming that state investment in schooling or…
Descriptors: Productivity, Economic Progress, Research Design, Human Capital
Erasure and Survival: Creating a Future and Managing a Past in a Restructuring High School
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Galletta, Anne; Ayala, Jennifer – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: With the growth of the small-school movement, many urban districts have restructured large underperforming high schools into new, small high schools or schools-within-a-school designed to engage adolescents in rigorous and meaningful learning along with strong teacher-student relationships. In the case of this study, the…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, School Closing, Urban Schools, Research Design