Accountability in Assessment Administration
Arsaythamby Veloo and Ruzlan Md-Ali
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Action Research in Teacher Education
Thomas Ryan
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Approaches to Handling Common Response Styles and Issues in Educational Surveys
Chester Chun Seng Kam and Xitao Fan
Survey has been a widely used data collection method for a variety of purposes in educational research. Although response styles have the potential to contaminate survey results, ...
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Authentic Assessment
Kim H. Koh
Authentic tasks replicate real-world challenges and standards of performance that experts or professionals typically face in the field. The term “authentic assessment” was first coined by ...
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Autoethnography
Susanne Gannon
Autoethnography is an increasingly popular form of postpositivist narrative inquiry that has recently begun to appear in educational contexts. The multiple lineages of autoethnography ...
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Common Core Standards (U.S.)
Patrick Shannon
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are part of a third wave of school reform in the United States. With accompanying tests, these standards combine calls for increased academic rigor, ...
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Education and Media Discourses
Nicole Mockler
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European Studies and Research in Adult Learning and Education
Oriol Rios-Gonzalez
The European Commission launched a renewed agenda for adult learning with the objective of ensuring access to high-quality educational opportunities to adult learners for the promotion of ...
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Globalization of Educational Knowledge and Research
Keita Takayama
Transnational flows of educational knowledge and research are fundamentally guided by the global geopolitics of knowledge—the historically constituted relations of power born out of the ...
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Interviews and Interviewing in the Ethnography of Education
Geoffrey Walford
Interviews are frequently used in ethnographic research, but it is argued that they pose particular difficulties in interpretation. While ethnographers are interested in understanding how ...
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Life Stories, Criminal Justice, and Caring Research
Chrissie Rogers
In the context of offenders who have learning difficulties, autism, and/or social, emotional, and mental health problems, their families, and professionals who work with them, caring and ...
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Longitudinal Study of Teachers
Clive Beck, Clare Kosnik, and Elizabeth Rosales
The longitudinal study of teachers gives a time perspective on the life and work of teachers, instead of just a snapshot at a particular point. The time period in question may be just a ...
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Moral and Character Education
David Ian Walker and Stephen J. Thoma
At core, moral and character education aims to develop the moral person. How this end state develops has been hindered by interest from different theoretical positions, differences between ...
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Music Education Research
Koji Matsunobu and Liora Bresler
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Practice-Focused Research in Initial Teacher Education
Jane Abbiss and Eline Vanassche
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Qualitative Approaches to Studying Marginalized Communities
Dana Moree
Marginalized populations are by definition composed of people who have fewer possibilities and options in their lives than those studying them. This fact has to be reflected before, ...
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Qualitative Data Analysis and Theory
Carol Grbich
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Qualitative Design Research Methods
Michael Dominguez
Emerging in the learning sciences field in the early 1990s, qualitative design-based research (DBR) is a relatively new methodological approach to social science and education research. As ...
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Research Feedback as a Strategy for Improving Participation and Social Transformation
Begoña Vigo Arrazola
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Risky Truth-Making in Qualitative Inquiry
Aaron M. Kuntz
Conventional approaches to qualitative research seek to distill and capture meaning through a sequence of determined, progressive methodological steps that serve to synthesize difference ...
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