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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Informal observations"”.
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The effect of new literacies and technology on student engagement and transforming the literacy block
… period and tracked through student interviews, informal observations, and student work samples. Throughout the study, students showed growth in their ability to interact with technology and one another through the repeated use of technology and the use of new literacies. Data also showed …
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A Case Study of Three Children from Single-Parent Divorced Families
… conducted for a period of ten months. Formal and informal observations and interviews were the methods used to gather data on behaviors identified in the literature of adolescent and later-latency children of divorce. Findings. The behaviors of the two adolescents that were consistent with the …
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The discourses of male teachers : the role of literate identity in professional practice
… collected through semi-structured interviews and informal observations. The interviews revealed that male literate identity is a product not only of parental attitudes toward literacy, but it is also determined by the individual’s sense of competence and purpose, as well as sometimes serendipitous …
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Unity in the Elementatry School Classroom: Building Community Through Increasing Positive Social Interactions Between and Among Students
… focus group discussions, writing samples, and informal observations.</p> <p>Findings and analysis indicate highly positive results overall, and demonstrate that unity and community within schools and classrooms can be attained effectively and efficiently with the assistance of the Toolbox …
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Negotiating Meaning: How Spanish-Speaking Mothers Make Sense of the Construct of Parental Involvement
… data through semi-structured interviews, informal observations, and extensive fieldnotes and I conducted on-going analysis on these data. Data provide evidence that the mothers in the study hold a different perspective of parental involvement from that of school personnel. Their views stem …
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Exploring Scholar--Practitioner Leadership: Superintendents' Application of Theory to Practice in Texas Public School Districts
… interviews, phone conversations, emails, and informal observations recorded in a researcher’s journal, four common elements of scholar–practitioner leadership practice were identified by the researcher. The four common elements of practice were: ensuring the district’s vision, mission, core …
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Role of evolving Web Technologies in the discovery of Entrepreneurial Opportunities in technology-based organisations
… including semi-structured interviews, informal observations and archival review to collect data. The qualitative case study methodology was chosen because little was known about the phenomenon under investigation, and the purpose of the study was to develop a theory of entrepreneurial …
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Exploration of Organizational Factors in Facilitating engagement among health science faculty
… with full-time faculty members, formal and informal observations, and university documents. The researcher then coded and analyzed data using a bottomup approach and stored data in a case study database. Findings from the data indicated that faculty member engagement is affected by (a) the …
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Reflective leadership: effects of peer mentoring on minority students within an urban school setting
… In addition, qualitative methods of formal and informal observations and semi-structured interviews were conducted to understand the perceptions of students, staff, and parents allowing me to identify root causes for low performance. I used the data collected to identify the effects that peer …
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Understanding decimal numbers: an investigation of student meaning constructions in intermediate and high school
This study grew out of informal observations of the poor achievement of 13 year old New Zealand students with decimal numbers. These observations were confirmed by the results of large-scale quantitative tests with 11 to 14 year olds both in New Zealand and overseas. The research design combined …
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Elementary school principals' perceptions of teacher evaluation practices
… to be more comprehensive, including more informal observations and feedback to be taken into account during the evaluation!on process. In addition, concerns were present regarding the consistency of how the teacher evaluations were conducted and the meaningfulness of the teacher evaluation …
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Exploring the impact of life science intermediaries on knowledge exchange and commercialisation: using a constructivist grounded theory methodology
… models, moreover, 30 interviews were conducted, informal observations were collected and field notes also known as memos were taken throughout the research process. Through the use of Constructivist Grounded Theory five theoretical concepts emerged, these included the following: that a LSI needed …
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Elementary School Principals' Utilization of Walkthroughs in the Role of Instructional Leaders
Principals now find themselves in the age of accountability and improvements with the expectation that they will function as instructional leaders. Walkthroughs provide a vehicle for principals to step into the role of instructional leaders. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand …
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“We Don’t Hear All The Stories”: East Timorese Youth And Education About The Indonesian Occupation
The role of formal and informal education in shaping youths’ historical memories of violence is not well understood (Cole & Barsalou, 2006; Worden, 2014). Few research studies (Bellino, 2017; Russell, 2020; Worden, 2014) have explored how youth engage and negotiate with contested history via formal …
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Melatonin and seasonal cycles in muskoxen
… gonadal steroids, prolactin and melatonin. Informal observations of dominance and breeding behaviour of males were recorded, semen was collected and assessed for gross motility, sperm concentration and abnormalities, and dimensions of male accessory genital glands were measured in vivo using …
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The use of names and embedded meanings as a therapeutic technique to mediate social adjustment and interpersonal efficiency
… with a number of stimulus-questions and informal observations and conversations. As enhanced social adjustment, interpersonal efficiency and growth in certain areas were obtained by means of using names and their embedded meanings as a therapeutic technique, the hypothesis of this study …
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Heritage College: Partnership Leadership as Catalyst to a Multicultural Learning Community
… members of the Board of Directors; formal and informal observations; and the analysis of more than seventy-five College documents. Data analysis was conducted manually and by utilizing QSR NUD*IST, a qualitative research data analysis software program. Partnership is the foundation upon which …
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Triple disadvantage: when othered students, study an othered course at an othered university – working-class, mature students’ discursive accounts of life on (and beyond) a two-year undergraduate Law degree
… discourse analysis of various policy texts, and informal observations of the practices at the Law school; an analysis of which attempts to provide some insight into this under-researched area. The Foucauldian inspired analysis suggests that working-class, mature students in this study constructed …
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Innovation pathways in technology intensive government organizations : insights from NASA
… 150 archival documents and 2 months of informal observations - this thesis demonstrates how, in practice, the pathways taken by new capabilities do not respect these assumptions, with important implications. For example: e Rather than being a monotonically increasing function in time, …
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Educating newly diagnosed cancer patients who are undergoing radiation therapy
… study incorporated pre/post survey instruments, informal observations, and journaling. This study took place from January 2009-May 2011. Cancer patients were provided with information through a DVD, an ordinary, concise, three dimensional visual medium. The fifty participants enrolled in the …
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