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Download full textLin, Wan-Ju – 1998
This study reports on the improvement of a teacher researcher's teaching practice by adopting a constructivist teaching approach. Four biology units on the nervous system, human circulatory system, evolution, and vertebrate classification were selected to illustrate a model of biology teaching. Data were drawn from student responses to…
Descriptors: Action Research, Biology, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)
Scanlon, Lesley – 2001
The implementation of an educational reform and the subsequent reconfiguration of curricula in a competency format prompted research into the learning experiences of students within a newly reconfigured competency-based curriculum. The curriculum was the technical and further education (TAFE) New South Wales (NSW) Tertiary Preparation Certificate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Developed Nations, Educational Change
Jackson, Charles – 1998
Thirty-four representatives of the Department for Education and Employment and other national organizations in the United Kingdom, researchers and educators in the fields of career education and guidance, and guidance practitioners from careers service companies and higher education institutions explored ways of developing a research culture in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Career Education, Career Guidance, Educational Research
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai – 1999
From the vantage point of indigenous peoples, the term "research" is inextricably linked to European imperialism and colonialism. In this book, an indigenous researcher calls for the decolonization of research methods. The first part of the book critically examines the historical and philosophical bases of Western research; Western…
Descriptors: American Indians, Colonialism, Educational Research, Ethics
Peer reviewedVisakorpi, Jarmo K. – Higher Education Management, 1996
Changes in staffing patterns of Finnish universities are examined, particularly the increase in administrative staff in relation to academic staff. Explanations are offered for the decrease in maintenance, service, and auxiliary research and teaching personnel. New skills that are required in these areas and relations between administrative and…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Administrators
Peer reviewedMacLure, Maggie – British Educational Research Journal, 1996
Examines the possible roles and contributions of postmodernist thought to educational research. Models some of these approaches in its consideration of interviews collected during a project reviewing the careers of educational researchers. Provides a number of verbatim transcripts from the interviews and discusses their various narrative and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Advocacy, Autobiographies, Educational Change
Peer reviewedVourou, Stella – Library Hi Tech, 1996
Discusses the need for new technologies and information delivery services in Greece, and describes current activities related to the support of Greek scientists and researchers. Highlights include data networks infrastructure; information centers; the National Documentation Center; library services, including electronic document delivery and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Document Delivery, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMoses, Ingrid – Higher Education, 1990
Australian institutions are developing and using performance indicators (number of publications, research grants, and of Ph.D. graduates) to distribute resources. Some of these are disadvantaging the Humanities. This paper addresses differences in chemistry, engineering, English, and law as they are described by other researchers. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, English, Faculty Promotion
Peer reviewedHoman, Roger – British Educational Research Journal, 1990
Recognizing tendencies toward contract research and possible consequences, advocates creating a conduct code to regulate educational research and protect its integrity. Reports survey responses from 48 British institutions, showing no systematic code. States confidence in supervisory discretion currently guides research. Proposes a specific code…
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Colleges, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Peer reviewedSalager-Meyer, Francoise – English for Specific Purposes, 1994
A corpus of 15 articles from 5 leading medical journals was used to examine how the communicative purpose of the different rhetorical sections of research papers and case reports in medical English written discourse influences the frequency and category distribution of the modulation devices (hedges) used in each section. (57 references)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), English for Science and Technology, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedSmith, Linda Tuhiwai; Smith, Graham H.; Boler, Megan; Kempton, Margaret; Ormond, Adreanne; Chueh, Ho-Chia; Waetford, Rona – Journal of Rural Studies, 2002
Youth First conducted focus groups and participatory "youth tribunals" across New Zealand, examining experiences of growing up rural. Common themes included "not being listened to," exclusion from citizen participation, and anxiety about the future. Remarkable differences in experience and views were often found in the same…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Alienation, Childrens Rights, Cultural Differences
Direct linkCaldwell, Joyce Y.; Davis, Jamie D.; Du Bois, Barbara; Echo-Hawk, Holly; Erickson, Jill Shepard; Goins, R. Turner; Hill, Calvin; Hillabrant, Walter; Johnson, Sharon R.; Kendall, Elizabeth; Keemer, Kelly; Manson, Spero M.; Marshall, Catherine A.; Running Wolf, Paulette; Santiago, Rolando L.; Schacht, Robert; Stone, Joseph B. – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2005
This article describes the collective experience of a multidisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners, and program evaluators who support appropriate research and evaluation methods in working with Native peoples. Our experience underlines the critical importance of culture in understanding and conducting research with the diverse…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluators, Evaluation Methods, Alaska Natives
Program-Based Research Special Interest Group, London (Ontario). – 1993
This publication contains nine articles about the process of doing research by literacy practitioners and volunteers in several areas of the Ontario (Canada) literacy field. "Implementing a Workplace Program: A Look Back" (Maria Ioannou-Makrakis) describes the process followed and the learning outcomes from planning, implementing, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Sabar, Naama – 1994
It has been argued that qualitative research demands a special ethics code because of the special relationship between researcher and subject. Ethical aspects of teacher-thinking research were examined by asking 12 teacher-thinking researchers in Israel to participate in an interview on ethical issues of teacher thinking. Interview transcripts…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Codes of Ethics, Educational Research
Atweh, Bill, Ed.; Watson, Jane, Ed. – 1992
The Mathematics Education Research Group of Australia (MERGA) was officially constituted in 1980. In 1984, MERGA produced the first review of the mathematics education research carried out in that region. This book is the third in that series of research reviews. An overview provides the context in which the Australian research was conducted and…
Descriptors: Algebra, Calculators, Cognitive Development, Context Effect
