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Matt LeClair

IIC - Intellectbase International Consortium - 0 views

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    Intellectbase International Consortium (IIC) is dedicated to professional academic conferences and reviewed journal publications (ACRP). Intellectbase is a professional academic organization committed to advancing and encouraging quantitative and qualitative (including hybrid and triangulation) research practices. IIC provides an open and discussion forum for Academics, Researchers, Engineers and Practitioners from the following research disciplines: BESTMAPS - Business, Education, Science, Technology, Multimedia, Arts, Political, Social etc. IIC promotes broader intellectual resources, a continuous development and the exchange of ideas among global research professionals. Senior, Middle and Junior level scholars are invited to participate and contribute one or several article(s) to the conference. IIC welcomes and encourages the active participation of all researchers seeking to broaden their horizons. Scholars are invited to share experiences on new research challenges, research findings and state-of-the-art solutions.
Matt LeClair

InspiringLearningForAll - Research methods, guidelines, and templates - 0 views

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    " esearch methods (pdf, 89kb) This table identifies the strengths of different methods of research to help you identify the most appropriate method for your programme or activity Research question bank (Word, 100kb) A question bank that offers useful and relevant research questions to help you customise questionnaires. Questions are divided into categories including: knowledge and understanding; skills; attitudes and values; enjoyment, inspiration and creativity and activity, behaviour and progression Guidelines on involving users (Word, 38kb) This document provides useful tips on how to involve users in identifying learning opportunites Interpreting visual images (Word, 774kb) This useful guide helps you to interpret visual images as research evidence. Particularly useful in researching the impact of your learning activity with children Focus group guide (Word, 40kb) This guide provides information and support on how to run a focus group "
Matt LeClair

QUALITATIVE FORMS OF ART EDUCATION RESEARCH - 0 views

  • Ethnography is an inquiry process carried out by a person from a point of view based on experience and knowledge of prior research. Anthropologists try to understand the significance or meaning of an experience from the participants' views. Some researchers also use the term ethnography to refer to all techniques used in fieldwork, not a single method; for example Stuhr (1986).
  • Following are some suggestions for collecting data. Start by writing first impressions, making a space map, called a sociogram, which requires following participant interactions and recording field notes to include dates and times, and dialogues and gestures among participants.
  • Following are some suggestions for collecting data. Start by writing first impressions, making a space map, called a sociogram, which requires following participant interactions and recording field notes to include dates and times, and dialogues and gestures among participants.
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  • Following are some suggestions for collecting data. Start by writing first impressions, making a space map, called a sociogram, which requires following participant interactions and recording field notes to include dates and times, and dialogues and gestures among participants.
  • Following are some suggestions for collecting data. Start by writing first impressions, making a space map, called a sociogram, which requires following participant interactions and recording field notes to include dates and times, and dialogues and gestures among participants.
  • Following are some suggestions for collecting data. Start by writing first impressions, making a space map, called a sociogram, which requires following participant interactions and recording field notes to include dates and times, and dialogues and gestures among participants.
  • ollowing are some suggestions for collecting data. Start by writing first impressions, making a space map, called a sociogram, which requires following participant interactions and recording field notes to include dates and times, and dialogues and gestures among participan
  • ollowing are some suggestions for collecting data. Start by writing first impressions, making a space map, called a sociogram, which requires following participant interactions and recording field notes to include dates and times, and dialogues and gestures among participan
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    "The purpose of this chapter is to 1) discuss the nature of qualitative inquiry, 2) explore different kinds of qualitative inquiry, 3) explain the role of interpretation, 4) present various participant observation stances, 5) offer ways of gaining access and achieving reciprocity, 6) review stages of qualitative research, 7) suggest practical procedures related to research methods as well as research writing, 8) present sociocultural problems, and 9) give future alternatives for qualitative research. Specifically, stages of qualitative research to be described are data collection, content analysis, and comparative analysis. Practical suggestions for analysis will include such examples as computer programming, icon and color coding of concepts, focus groups and key informants, and spread sheets for comparative and cross-site analysis"
Matt LeClair

Design-based Research Collective - 0 views

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    Design-Based Research Collective is a small group of researchers who engage in design-based research, often in technology enhanced learning environments. In our own work, we have come to recognize the need to better define the nature, methods, and outcomes of design-based research so that we may more easily share our own research and build on the work of others.
Matt LeClair

Design-based research: An emerging paradigm for educational inquiry - 0 views

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    The authors argue that design-based research, which blends empir- ical educational research with the theory-driven design of learning environments, is an important methodology for understanding how, when, and why educational innovations work in practice. Design- based researchers' innovations embody specific theoretical claims about teaching and learning, and help us understand the relationships among educational theory, designed artifact, and practice. Design is central in efforts to foster learning, create usable knowledge, and ad- vance theories of learning and teaching in complex settings. Design- based research also may contribute to the growth of human capacity for subsequent educational reform.
Matt LeClair

Action Research @ actionresearch.net - 0 views

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    n a living educational theory approach to action research, individuals hold their lives to account by producing explanations of their educational influences in their own learning in enquiries of the kind, 'How am I improving what I am doing?' They do this in contexts where they are seeking to live the values they use to give life meaning and purpose as fully as they can. The living educational theories of professional educators and other practitioner-researchers usually explain their educational influences in the learning of their students and can also explain their educational influences in the learning of social formations. See www.actionresearch.net/writings/livtheory.html.
Matt LeClair

CRADLE - Center for Research on Activity, Development, and Learning - University of Hel... - 0 views

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    The purpose of CRADLE is to create a strong research community with high international impact, a national and international cradle of activity-theoretical and socio-cultural research.
Matt LeClair

Online Learning Circles - 0 views

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    Learning Circle Model and Phases; Specific Learning Groups addressed: Elem/HS students/university students/teachers/action researchers, evaluation researchers/other
Matt LeClair

Qualitative evaluation for program improvement - 0 views

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    "evaluation process in the general style of action research illustrates some points about qualitative research and evaluation"
Matt LeClair

Beginners' guide to action research - 0 views

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    "action research is briefly described, and the simultaneous achievement of action (that is, change) and research (that is, understanding) is discussed"
Michelle Green

The Ontario Action Researcher - Welcome - 0 views

  • this journal strives to: Publish accounts of a range of action research projects in education and across the professions with the aim of making their outcomes widely available, providing models of effective action research and enabling educators to share their experiences Demonstrate connections between practice and theory through articles of a general nature on methodological and epistemological issues related to action research Disseminate reviews of books, websites and products related to action research And finally, to provide a forum for dialogue on the various action research projects that are taking place around the province
Matt LeClair

Understanding life experiences through a phenomenological approach to research - 0 views

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    Phenomenology is one of many types of qualitative research that examines the lived experiences of humans.(1) Phenomenological researchers hope to gain understanding of the essential "truths" (ie, essences) of the lived experience.
Andrea Flagiello

OERL : PD Modules : Methodological Approach and Sampling : Key Topics - 0 views

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    Information about how to gather data and how to design your research study. Can help with action research. 
Matt LeClair

http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/jack/arplanner.htm - 0 views

  • expression and communication of these values is essential in any valid explanation of your educational influence in your own learning and in the learning of others.  I am thinking here of values such as freedom, justice, care, love, compassion, respect and knowledge-creation
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  • 'How do I improve what I am doing?'  in  your professional practice.
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  • onversations between pairs of practitioner-researchers in which we take some 4 minutes each to outline our contexts, what really matters to us, and what we would like to improve
  • motivating you to improve your practice it often helps in the development of realistic action pla
  • After the initial conversation on values and context in relation to your desire to improve practices that relate to helping students, yourself and/or colleagues to improve their learning, I believe that you may find the following action planning process most useful.
  • 'How do I improve what I am doing?'
  • tions, ideas and actions that can distinguish an action reflection cycle: 1) What do I want to improve? What is my concern? Why am I concerned? 2) Imagining possibilities and choosing one of them to act on in an action plan 3) As I am acting what data will I collect to enable me to judge my educational influence in my professional context as I answer my question?  4) Evaluating the influence of the actions in terms of values and understandings. 5) Modifying concerns, ideas and actions in the light of evaluations.
  • Making public a validated explanation of educational influences
  • 7) As I evaluate the educational influences of my actions in my own learning and the learning of other, who might be willing to help me to strengthen the validity of my explanation of my learning about my influence with responses to questions such as: i)               Is my explanation as comprehensible as it could be? ii)             Could I improve the evidential basis of my claims to know what I am doing? iii)            Does my explanation include an awareness of historical and cultural influences in what I am doing and draw on the most advanced social theories of the day? iv)            Am I showing that I am committed to the values that I claim to be living by?
  • nhancing professionalism with TASC (Thinking Actively in a Social Context)
  • .  In producing a valid explanation for our educational influences in the learning of others I believe it to be necessary for the other's explanation of their own learning to be included in our explanation. 
  • ecognises the creativity of the other in engaging with ideas
  • I believe that Sally's writings make an original contribution to educational knowledge whilst showing that she has found useful some of my own ideas  in making this contribution.
  • Educational Enquiry (EE), Research Methods in Education (RME), Understanding Learners and Learning (ULL) and Gifts and Talents in Education (G & T) you can access these at: http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/mastermod.shtml .
  • To see the criteria used in assessing these units click on this link for the MACriteria.
  • virtual learning space for this CPD project go to http://www.spanglefish.com/livingvaluesimprovingpracticecooperatively/ . You can also read Walton's (2011 a&b) ideas on developing a collaborative inquiry.
  • In an inclusional way of being and knowing an individual recognises that they exist in a relational dynamic of space and boundaries. Hence one of the tasks of the practitioner-researcher is to express and communicate this relational dynamic in explanations of educational influence.
  • An example here would be the use of Foucault's (1977) ideas on Power/Knowledge to understand the relationships between the Truth of Power and the Power of Truth in the workplace when seeking academic legitimation for new living standards of judgment.
  • Appendix 1 Action Planner
  • You can access this curriculum at http://www.actionresearch.net/writings/bishops/bish99.pdf
  • How do we contribute to an educational knowledge base
  • Hymer, B. (2007) How do I understand and communicate my values and beliefs in my work as an educator in the field of giftedness?
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    "Action Planning In Improving Practice And Generating Educational Knowledge In Creating Your Living Educational Theory"
Matt LeClair

Qual Page - 2 views

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    Resources for Qualitative Research
Matt LeClair

OMNI - Essentials of Planning and Conducting Focus Groups - 0 views

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    Resources on: Participatory Action Research Summary Articles - Part 1 & 2 Toolkit for Conducting Focus Groups
Matt LeClair

Association for Institutional Research - 0 views

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    MISSION: The mission of the Association for Institutional Research is to support quality data and decisions for higher education.
Matt LeClair

Brandon Hall - Technology Selection Methodology - 0 views

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    Choosing the right learning or talent management technology is a daunting task. A bad decision could cost an organization immeasurable time and dollars, not to mention the negative impact on talent development. Whether an organization is considering keeping its current learning or talent management technology, or exploring the replacement or supplement of its current technology, Brandon Hall Group's consulting team can provide expert analysis and recommendations. Our proven technology selection methodologies accelerate the time to decision by leveraging Brandon Hall Group's key practices and great research from over 25 industry sectors, covering small and large organizations, public, government, non-profit, and global.
Matt LeClair

Qualitative Research - Handbook of Qualitative Research - 0 views

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    methods of collecting and analyzing
Matt LeClair

WebHome < Main < WikiTADA - 0 views

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    "The Text Analysis Developers Alliance is an international group of designers and developers of text analysis tools. The mission of TADA is to encourage collaboration among researchers and to provide useful resources to developers and users."
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