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Daniel, Ben – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
Institutions of higher education are operating in an increasingly complex and competitive environment. This paper identifies contemporary challenges facing institutions of higher education worldwide and explores the potential of Big Data in addressing these challenges. The paper then outlines a number of opportunities and challenges associated…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Statistical Data, Data Analysis, Program Implementation
Henderson, Linda – Educational Action Research, 2017
This article reports on an evaluation of three action research projects developed by a group of teachers working across the early years in three independent schools. The article examines the role of action research in developing educational leadership capabilities. Drawing on the educational leadership literature, concepts and ideas of action and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Research Projects, Curriculum Development, Leadership Training
Dorff, Michael; Henrich, Allison; Pudwell, Lara – PRIMUS, 2017
Undergraduate research occurs in a variety of mathematical fields and in diverse settings, but all mentors of undergraduates face a number of common considerations. This article is a brief guide to help faculty with various levels of previous mentoring experience lead students in research projects. In particular, we discuss the issues of picking…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers
Young, Lance Brendan – Communication Teacher, 2017
Courses: Qualitative research methods, health communication, organizational communication, or any course that could incorporate advocacy or social change into the content area. Objectives: On completion of this assignment, students will (1) understand why and how action research is undertaken; (2) develop skill in perceiving and representing the…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Action Research, Assignments, Student Research
Guenther, John; Osborne, Sam; Arnott, Allan; McRae-Williams, Eva – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2017
Researchers in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander contexts within Australia are frequently faced with the challenges of working in an intercultural space where channels of communication are garbled with interference created by the complexities of misunderstood worldviews, languages, values and expectations. A concern of many researchers…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Vignettes, Critical Theory
Bill, Amanda – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
This article describes how a political assemblage currently at work in higher education is re-articulating academic subjectivities. This assemblage draws together entrepreneurial and humanist concepts of creativity into an intellectual resource that can change national economies. Academics are urged to use their creativity to counteract the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism
Lovekamp, William E.; Soboroff, Shane D.; Gillespie, Michael D. – Teaching Sociology, 2017
One innovative way to help students make sense of survey research has been to create a multifaceted, collaborative assignment that promotes critical thinking, comparative analysis, self-reflection, and statistical literacy. We use a short questionnaire adapted from the Higher Education Research Institute's Cooperative Institutional Research…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Learner Engagement, Surveys, Research Methodology
Manidis, Marie; Addo, Rebecca – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
Learning to "become doctor" requires PhD candidates to undertake progressive public displays--material and social--of knowledge. Knowledge in doctoral pedagogy is primarily realised textually, with speaking and writing remaining as the primary assessment rubrics of progress and of the qualification. Participating textually begins, in a…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Public Speaking, Drills (Practice)
Bakker, Arthur; Ben-Zvi, Dani; Makar, Katie – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2017
To understand how statistical and other types of reasoning are coordinated with actions to reduce uncertainty, we conducted a case study in vocational education that involved statistical hypothesis testing. We analyzed an intern's research project in a hospital laboratory in which reducing uncertainties was crucial to make a valid statistical…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Case Studies, Statistics, Hypothesis Testing
Donohue, William J. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examines the student writer perspective of a first-year composition program's student learning outcomes. Student descriptions of learning are a valuable, yet often overlooked data source. The student voice broadens a first-year composition program's outcomes-based, student learning assessment process as program assessment data is often…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Student Attitudes
Urban, Jennifer Brown; van Eeden-Moorefield, Bradley Matheus – APA Books, 2017
Designing your own study and writing your research proposal takes time, often more so than conducting the study. This practical, accessible guide walks you through the entire process. You will learn to identify and narrow your research topic, develop your research question, design your study, and choose appropriate sampling and measurement…
Descriptors: Research Projects, Student Research, Research Proposals, Research Design
Dobbins, Catherine E.; Edgar, Leslie D.; Dooley, Kim E. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2021
Background: Case study is widely used in teaching and learning literature; however, the extant literature contains few examples of student-developed case studies. This study used the situated perspective of experiential education (EE) to highlight context and legitimate peripheral participation encouraging enculturation into research communities…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Ethnography, Experiential Learning, Communities of Practice
Aivelo, Tuomas; Huovelin, Suvi – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Citizen science is a valuable tool in environmental and formal education in creating scientific knowledge for the researchers and facilitating learning and fostering a positive relationship toward the environment and study species. We present a case study on the Helsinki Urban Rat Project in which students surveyed rat occurrence in their own near…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Student Attitudes, Animals, Foreign Countries
Tosun, Hasan – Online Submission, 2020
The university ranking systems have been utilized for academic performance of higher education system in the World since beginning of 2000's years. These systems, which considered the common parameters, have quickly followed with their own hierarchical measures by higher education organizations. However, these ranking systems never consider…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Institutional Evaluation, State Universities
Kontorovich, Igor'; Rouleau, Annette – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2018
This article is concerned with tensions that teachers who are studying for a graduate degree in mathematics education experience when conducting a research project. Specifically, we focused on the tensions that emerge in situations where teacher-researchers encounter the mathematical misconceptions and difficulties of their interviewees. The…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Mathematics Instruction, Decision Making, Learning Theories