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Thornton, Teresa; Leahy, Jessica – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2012
Social network analysis (SNA) is a social science research tool that has not been applied to educational programs. This analysis is critical to documenting the changes in social capital and networks that result from community based K-12 educational collaborations. We review SNA and show an application of this technique in a school-centered,…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Social Science Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Network Analysis
Nelson, Eric Derrand – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This work describes the design and construction of an open source, entity resolution system that enables users to assign and maintain persistent identifiers for master data items. Two key features of this system that are not available in current ER systems and that make persistent identification possible are (1) The capture and management of…
Descriptors: Information Management, Internet, Open Source Technology, Computer Software
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Tarantino, Giovanni; Fazio, Claudio – European Journal of Physics, 2011
A video-analysis software tool has been employed in order to measure the steady-state values of the kinematics variables describing the longitudinal behaviour of a radio-controlled model aircraft during take-off, climbing and gliding. These experimental results have been compared with the theoretical steady-state configurations predicted by the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Computer Software, Behavior, Longitudinal Studies
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Kaplan, Ian; Miles, Susie; Howes, Andy – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2011
Participatory research methods directly engage with the topics that they set out to address. It is therefore no surprise that participatory research practice on the topic of educational inclusion and exclusion raises ethical issues for the participatory researcher that are themselves about inclusion and exclusion. This paper describes and analyses…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Photography, Qualitative Research, Participatory Research
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Sam, Cecile – Theory Into Practice, 2012
Understanding the interactions between people, computer-mediated communication, and online life requires that researchers appropriate a set of methodological tools that would be best suited for capturing and analyzing the phenomenon. However, these tools are not limited to relevant technological forms of data collections and analysis programs; it…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Researchers, Constructivism (Learning)
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Wesolowski, Brian C. – Music Educators Journal, 2012
A primary difficulty with music performance assessment is managing its subjective nature. To help improve objectivity, rubrics can be used to develop a set of guidelines for clearly assessing student performance. Moreover, rubrics serve as documentation for student achievement that provides music teachers with a written form of accountability.…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Guidelines, Music Teachers, Scoring Rubrics
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Hannagan, Rebecca J.; Schneider, Monica C.; Greenlee, Jill S. – PS: Political Science and Politics, 2012
Within the subfields of political psychology and the study of gender, the introduction of new data collection efforts, methodologies, and theoretical approaches are transforming our understandings of these two fields and the places at which they intersect. In this article we present an overview of the research that was presented at a National…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Political Science, Psychology, Educational Environment
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Rodriguez-Jimenez, Anthony; Gifford, Sandra M. – Youth Studies Australia, 2010
Participatory media approaches were used as a strategy to provide space for youth with refugee backgrounds to narrate their early settlement experiences. The paper describes the challenges of participatory media approaches as both a research tool and as a strategy. The key learning was that giving freedom for voices also requires giving…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Freedom, Refugees, Immigrants
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Hara, Keishiro; Uwasu, Michinori; Kurimoto, Shuji; Yamanaka, Shinsuke; Umeda, Yasushi; Shimoda, Yoshiyuki – Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2013
Systemic understanding of potential research activities and available technology seeds at university level is an essential condition to promote interdisciplinary and vision-driven collaboration in an attempt to cope with complex sustainability and environmental problems. Nonetheless, any such practices have been hardly conducted at universities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Research Needs, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Leung, Constant; Hawkins, Margaret R. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
This is a two-part discussion. Part 1 is entitled "English Language Learning in Subject Lessons", and Part 2 is titled "Video as a Research Tool/Counterpoint". Working with different research concerns, the authors attempt to draw attention to a set of methodological and theoretical issues that have emerged in the research process using video data.…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Research Tools, Social Science Research, Research Methodology
Mokhtar, Seri Bunian; Rahman, Saemah; Mokhtar, Seri Intan; Husain, Mohd Yusof – Online Submission, 2012
This study was carried out to review the GS (generic skills) instruments used for engineering students. A total of 455 respondents were involved in this study. The variables presented in this study were the information management skills, communication skill, team working skill, problem-solving skill, lifelong learning skill, technology utilization…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Predictor Variables
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Sinkinson, Caroline; Alexander, Stephanie; Hicks, Alison; Kahn, Meredith – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2012
This article details an open card sort study administered to undergraduate students, graduate students, and librarians at the University of Colorado at Boulder in order to reveal perceptions of library research guides. The study identifies user group preferences for organization and content of research guides, as well as themes emerging from the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Library Research, Academic Libraries
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Messinger, Adam M. – Teaching Sociology, 2012
Content analysis is a valuable research tool for social scientists that unfortunately can prove challenging to teach to undergraduate students. Published classroom exercises designed to teach content analysis have thus far been predominantly envisioned as lengthy projects for upper-level courses. A brief and engaging exercise may be more…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Teaching Methods, Questionnaires, Pretests Posttests
Annenberg Learner, 2012
Exciting developments in the field of neuroscience are leading to a new understanding of how the brain works that is beginning to transform teaching in the classroom. "Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections" brings together researchers and educators in a dialog about how insights into brain function can be harnessed by teachers for use…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Research Tools, Elementary Secondary Education, Brain
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Miller, Andrea – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2012
This article presents reports from the 2011 Missouri Library Association Annual Conference held on October 5-7, 2011. The first report, entitled "Online Information Literacy Instruction: Challenges and Strategies," was presented by Kristine Stewart and Kyle Denlinger, University of Missouri-Columbia. Stewart and Denlinger talk about…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Online Courses
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