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Nelson, Murry R. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1997
Reviews the past 25 years of the journal "Theory and Research in Social Education," exploring the advent of historical research within the journal's content to the publication of historical research as very typical. Indicates a maturation of social studies regarding research, considering the caveats of historical research. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Higher Education
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Klassen, Rob – School Psychology International, 2002
Notes trends in definitions and theories on learning disabilities as recorded in articles in Canadian journals from 1989-2000. Examines current definitions of learning disabled (LD) used by ministries of education and compares them with proposed changes in current research. Discusses the shift in LD identification practices away from IQ cutoffs…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Identification
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Rayfield, Robin; Meabon, David; Ughrin, Tina – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2004
In the academy, when scholarly productivity is considered, many words come to mind such as: research, journal articles, books and chapters in books, experiments and conference presentations among others. The literature often uses the term research as a synonym for scholarly productivity. A review of related literature revealed that tenure policies…
Descriptors: Productivity, Higher Education, Tenure, Educational Administration
Elliott, Alison, Ed. – Early Childhood Australia, 2006
"Every Child" is Australia's premier early childhood publication, aimed at anyone involved in the care and education of children from birth to eight years-in particular child care professionals, teachers, child care students and the parents of young children. Published quarterly, it contains informative and entertaining articles on such…
Descriptors: School Responsibility, Foreign Countries, Back to Basics, Student Adjustment
Boehm, Steven S., Ed. – Child Welfare League of America (NJ3), 2006
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is the nation's oldest and largest membership-based child welfare organization committed to engaging people everywhere in promoting the well-being of children, youth, and their families and protecting every child from harm. By publishing a diverse range of views on a wide array of topics, "Children's…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Adoption, Child Rearing, Crisis Management
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Barbezat, Debra A. – Journal of Economic Education, 2006
This study is based on a 1996 survey of PhD economists working in the academic and nonacademic sectors since 1989. Despite a raw gender difference in all types of research output, the male dummy variable proves statistically significant in predicting only one publication measure. In a full sample and faculty subsample, number of years since…
Descriptors: Productivity, Graduate Students, Gender Differences, Economics
Crozier, Nicola; Kleinsasser, Robert C. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2006
This study explores educational and sociocultural advice home country teachers offer non-home country teachers instructing English. It reviews various professional literature including documents (e.g. news releases), websites, and various literature (books, journals, journal articles) pertaining to the preparation of teachers who plan to teach…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Hanke, Craig J.; Bauer-Dantoin, Angela C. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2006
Classroom discussion of scientific articles can be an effective means of teaching scientific principles and methodology to both undergraduate and graduate science students. The availability of classic papers from the American Physiological Society Legacy Project has made it possible to access articles dating back to the early portions of the 20th…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Discovery Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Science Education
Birchfield, Marilee – 1997
Each year the Library Instruction Round Table, Continuing Education Committee of the American Library Association reviews the periodical literature on library user education and selects the top 20 articles. Articles on user education from all types of libraries are considered: academic, school, special, and public. The criteria for selection…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Citation Analysis, Citations (References), Elementary Secondary Education
Luey, Beth – 1995
This guide provides an overview of the academic publishing process and advice to prospective authors in academe on how to have their work published. Individual chapters focus on: (1) the author-publisher partnership; (2) finding an appropriate journal, submitting an effective manuscript, and speeding up the refereeing process; (3) revising a…
Descriptors: Authors, Books, Doctoral Dissertations, Editing
Vijayaraman, Bindiganavale S.; Osyk, Barbara – 1997
This paper is a survey of publications on artificial neural networks published in business journals for the period ending July 1996. Its purpose is to identify and analyze trends in neural network research during that period. This paper shows which topics have been heavily researched, when these topics were researched, and how that research has…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliometrics, Business
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Hedemark, Ase; Hedman, Jenny; Sundin, Olof – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2005
Introduction: The aim of the study reported is to examine user discourses identified in the Swedish public library field. The following questions are posed: What user discourses can be found and what characterises them? How are users categorised and what does this categorisation imply? The departure point in this paper is that the ways users are…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Users (Information), Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes
Corley, Mary Ann; Taymans, Juliana M. – Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 2002
An emerging theme in professional development for adult literacy program staff over the past decade has been the topic of learning disabilities (LD). As adult educators have come to recognize that the effects of LD can play a significant role in the performance and retention of adult learners, many have sought answers to the following questions:…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Adult Basic Education, Adults, Adult Learning
Ahn, Soyeon; Choi, Jinyoung – Online Submission, 2004
The aim of this paper is to examine a variety of features of research that might account for mixed findings of the relationship between teachers' subject matter knowledge and student achievement based on meta-analytic technique. Of several variables that might contribute to inconsistencies and variations in study findings, three features of…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Meta Analysis, Journal Articles
Fortner, Sandra – 1997
The purpose of this study is to analyze the nature of materials used by scholars in the field of Appalachian studies. Citations were analyzed from four monographic works: "Appalachia and the Politics of Culture,""Appalachia in an International Context,""Appalachia: Social Context, Past and Present," and…
Descriptors: Citation Analysis, Citations (References), Higher Education, Journal Articles
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