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Showing 1 to 20 of 203 for “"constant comparative method"”.
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Staying the Course: The Development of Virginia's Standards of Learning and the Decision not to Adopt the Common Core State Standards
… evidence. The study utilized a qualitative methodology with a two-phase data collection process. First, documents from the Virginia Board of Education and the Virginia Department of Education were collected and analyzed using the constant comparative method (Maykut and Morehouse, 1994). …
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A case study of third-grade teacher's literacy instruction in a racially mixed classroom
… transcripts, and classroom artifacts. The constant comparative method was used to analyze the data.
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Exploring the Use of Social Media by Female Saudi Nursing Students for Personal and Academic Purposes
… translated, and then analysed using a constant comparative method, with participants’ consent. Constant comparative method was used in each phase of data collection and analysis, facilitated by MAXQDA software. Participants: 12 female undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students at …
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Crossing the Chasm: a Qualitative Analysis of Cross-Sex Friendship
… friendship specifically utilizing a qualitative method of research to examine how individuals define friendship, the satisfactions gained in cross-sex friendship, and the maintenance strategies used in order to keep the friendship platonic. While there has been a plethora of studies focusing on …
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STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF FACTORS RELATED TO TRANSITION PLANNING THAT SUPPORT THEIR PURSUIT OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
… qualitative research design involving case study methods was chosen for the six-month investigation. The essential reason for utilizing case study methods was to provide rich data using a smaller sample size of participants. The participants in the present study included three first-year college …
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An Exploration of College-Related Memorable Messages
… and the data were analyzed through a thematic, constant comparative method. Within the context of higher education, findings revealed students’ perceptions of memorable college-related messages, the sources of memorable college-related messages, the characteristics that increase the likelihood …
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I felt like the enemy and the savior all at once': English teacher identity in a methods course wiki
… of preservice teachers enrolled in English methods courses during a semester of field experience. This research employs a qualitative methodology and documents the nature of participants responses posted to online wiki forum. Data sources include archived electronic interactions and course …
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An investigation of a group of Khayelitsha parents' understanding of the causes and management of their childrens' epilepsy
… transcribed and data was analysed through the constant comparative method. The interview explored the causes of epilepsy and the factors that trigger the onset of seizures of which most respondents had no understanding. It further explored the medical management of epilepsy in regard to kind of …
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Children Diagnosed With Attachment Disorder: A Qualitative Study of the Parental Experience
… frameworks guided the investigation. The constant comparative method of analysis was used to develop three core categories that described the subtitles of parent's experiences. Parent's quotes were used to further embellish the findings. The findings include parent's experiences in …
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Playing class: a case study of ludic pedagogy
… acted as a participant observer and used Constant Comparative Method as data driven teaching focused on student created documents. This research provides an exploration on the use of ludicly styled teaching methodology which includes students as instructors, the instructor as a “game …
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Junior High Students' Perceptions of the Fitnessgram Fitness Test
… the Fitnessgram fitness test. Results using the constant comparative method revealed three major categories: (1) students' perceptions of the purpose of fitness testing, (2) motivation, and (3) test administration. Findings indicated that students clearly understood the purpose of fitness …
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The good language class: Teacher perceptions
… two distinct phases. The first phase uses the constant comparative method of data collection and analysis to integrate the perceptions of 28 experienced language teachers into the following theory: teachers judge the quality of their classes in terms of the degree to which they function as …
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Making Good: An Exploratory Study of the Socialization, Identity, and Sensemaking of Mission Trip Volunteers
… and the data were analyzed through a thematic, constant comparative method. Findings revealed the types of stories heard from other mission trip volunteers prior to serving, the impact of those stories on decisions to volunteer, the various identities that emerge while serving on a mission trip, …
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Igniting the Mind: Engaging Nursing Students in the Process of Learning
… analysis occurred simultaneously utilizing the constant comparative method. Igniting the Mind emerged as the core category of the study. This category represented the methods nurse educators use to involve students in the process of learning. Igniting the Mind entails making a connection, …
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African American Head Football Coaches at Division 1 FBS Schools: A Qualitative Study on Turning Points
… influenced their career. This study employed a Constant Comparative method in which participants answered interview questions designed for them to elaborate on their educational and athletic careers, and those events and people who were major influences in their careers. Commonalities and …
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Acculturative Stress, Coping, and Approaches to Working with Refugee Immigrants in the United States
… States were transcribed and analyzed using a constant comparative method. Demographic characteristics of refugees and the type of acculturative stressor experienced were found to contribute to the type of coping mechanisms used. Psychosocial interventions which are built on cultural …
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Overcoming: A Theory of Accelerated Second-Degree Baccalaureate Graduate Nurse Transition to Professional Nursing Practice.
… to Professional Nursing Practice</em>. Constant comparative method of joint data collection, analysis, theoretical sampling, and memoing was used. Data were collected through semistructured interviews using open-ended questions that were conducted over the telephone or in person. The …
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"Examining the Complexities of ""Kidwatching"" in a Context for Teacher Inquiry"
… constructionism. The data were analyzed using a constant comparative method. During the course of one school year, the teachers shaped a focus for their inquiries and met as a group with the researcher to examine student artifacts related to each teacher's inquiry. Group members made …
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General Education Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of Developing "Interventionist" Beliefs and Practices
… were coded, themed, and analyzed based on the “constant comparative” method (Miles & Huberman, 1994), which gave rise to single case, and cross case analyses. Teachers’ perceptions are organized in results according to a framework based on 3 main questions: (a) what are teachers’ current …
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A comparative study of administrative leadership in Thai universities
… and documents, these were analysed using the constant comparative method synonymous with grounded theory. Findings of the research revealed that effective leadership combines both interpersonal and organizational skills in establishing direction in universities and in aligning, motivating and …
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