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Showing 1 to 20 of 254 for “"Educational research"”.
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Systematic replications and statistical reproducibility of educational research
… A similar conclusion has been drawn about educational research. At the same time, thousands of papers are published making it increasingly difficult for researchers to know whether or not findings have replicated. This thesis addresses the replicability and reproducibility of educational …
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Does Collaboration Matter? A Paradigm for Practical Educational Research
… collaboration among practitioners in practical educational research? And if collaboration as elaborated here matters enough for us to care, how will our lives as practitioner-researchers be different? This thesis argues that collaborative research is more than a way of distributing the research …
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Educational Research Visualizations: Scientific Warrants in Early-Phase *Research
… in order to create appropriate new forms of research and thereby improving the diffusion and adoption of effective innovations. Beginning with an historical analysis of how meaning making via visualization systems has become an essential engine of science, and how today an appropriate …
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Teachers' Perceptions of Educational Research: A Self-Efficacy Perspective
Educational research contains many data-driven implications for inservice educational professionals including those who work closely with students with disabilities, special educators. Although special education professionals are under increasing directives to make use of this body of literature in …
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An Epistemological and Ethical Justification of Educational Research and Practice
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Propensity Score Matching Techniques: Simulation and Application in an Educational Research Context
<p>Propensity score matching is a relatively new technique used in observational studies to approximate data that have been randomly assigned to treatment. This technique assimilates the values of several covariates into a single propensity score that is used as a matching variable to create …
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Developing a process for conducting educational research with the Dakota people of Wahpeton
Historically, research on Aboriginal education issues has ignored the needs of Aboriginal people and disempowered the Aboriginal community. This thesis seeks to offer a corrective to that trend. The intent of the thesis research was to establish a process for conducting educational research with …
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Extending the Reach of Educational Research: Applying Product Commercialization Processes to Communities of Practice
The ability to extend educational research beyond the research community could have a great impact on end-users such as teachers, students, or educational administrators. One way to extend the use of educational research is to create tangible educational products; such as virtual simulations, …
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Considerations and implications for building an impact evaluation model for research and development centers funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education
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Learners’ experiences in cMOOCs (2008-2016)
This research began in 2008 (the year of the first MOOC) with the aim of increasing understanding of the diversity and complexity of participants’ learning experiences in connectivist, massive, open, online learning environments (cMOOCs). Through their ‘massiveness’ and openness these MOOCs have …
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Blending cognitive rule-based, process-based, and context-based theories in the development of online grammar instruction
This study proposes to blend contemporary educational research in order to design an online instructional environment. The goal was to create an environment that would better educate learners about grammar use in higher education, given the complexity of the rule learning that was being asked of …
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Validity in Qualitative Inquiry
… use of qualitative methods of inquiry in educational research and evaluation, relatively little is known about validity in qualitative inquiry. This dissertation includes an examination of the concept of validity as it applies to qualitative inquiry and a discussion of the estimation of …
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A Comparative Study of Student Attitudes to Learning: Cuba and Australia
It is widely agreed within educational research that student attitudes to learning and schooling are of critical importance. However it continues to be rare for research to draw on the perspectives of students themselves as valid data. Moreover, students are almost entirely absent from educational …
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The Infinite Maze: Students of Color in a Predominantly White University
… looking at the reality of students of color. If educational research is to change, then we must rewrite epistemology and create new ways of thinking, analyzing, and legitimating this knowledge.
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The Get Ready Program at Marquette School
… The findings from the study are consistent with educational research for elementary school children relative to attendance, achievement, rate of retention, and special education placement of children who participated in similar programs.
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Universal Design for Learning: Is Training Making a Difference in Teacher Pedagogy
… a non-profit organization specializing in educational research and development, worked for over one quarter of a century to improve learning opportunities for all individuals (Rose, 2012). In the late 1990s this work led to a set of principles known as Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a …
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Individualizing Instruction Through the Use of Classroom Groups
… which are supported by the findings of educational research and experience, and which will give educators some guidance in the area of grouping for instruction.
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Empathetic Educational Environments: Advancing Cultural Sensitivity of Trauma Through Storytelling in the Secondary-level English Classroom
… addresses the critical gap in trauma-informed educational research by centering trauma survivors' voices as foundational knowledge for developing pedagogical interventions. First, through comprehensive evaluation of a teacher preparation program, classroom observations across diverse Virginia …
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