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Direct linkHooghe, Marc; Stiers, Dieter – Field Methods, 2023
When conducting a postal survey, a traditional recommendation is to use paper postage stamps instead of an automated postage system, to make sure that invitations have a more personal and attractive appearance. In this research note, we investigate whether this traditional recommendation is still valid. In the autumn of 2020, a postal survey was…
Descriptors: Mail Surveys, Response Rates (Questionnaires), High School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Kolaric, Alica; Stricevic, Ivanka – Education for Information, 2021
This paper presents the main methodological issues met with during the research on adolescent everyday life information behavior in the context of making informed decisions, which was carried out in Croatia from 2018 to 2020. It does not focus on the research results, but rather on the methodological issues and concerns that had occurred stemming…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Decision Making, Information Seeking, Research Methodology
Harris, Douglas N.; Nathan, Alan; Marksteiner, Ryne – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2014
Upward Bound (UB) was one of the original federal "Great Society" programs of the 1960s and remains, fifty years later, the single largest college access program in the country. Recently, Congress has reduced funding and considered eliminating the program because of federal budget pressures and because the first analysis of the only…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Federal Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, College Preparation
Download full textCobb, Casey D. – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2010
This review examines a research study that compares high school graduation rates of students who used vouchers to attend private high schools in Milwaukee and students who attended public high schools in that same city. The study reports that for the most recent year of data, a sample of voucher students had estimated graduation rates 12…
Descriptors: Research Design, High Schools, Public Schools, Graduation Rate
Goodnough, Karen – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
This article reports on the experiences and perceptions of K-12 teachers as they engaged in a participatory action research (PAR) project, "Science Across the Curriculum." Although the experiences and professional learning of two of the project participants are highlighted, the challenges that all participants experienced as they conceptualized…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Action Research, Teacher Attitudes, Teachers
Herman, Joan L.; Webb, Noreen M.; Zuniga, Stephen A. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2007
This study examined the impact of rater agreement on decisions concerning the alignment between the "Golden State Examination in High School Mathematics" (California Department of Education, 2001a) and the University of California (UC) "Statement on Competencies in Mathematics Expected of Entering College Students" (Academic…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Academic Standards, Item Analysis, Interrater Reliability
