Reading and Research Methods - Teaching Vanguard

Students Are Distracted. What Can Educators Do About It?

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Can you talk about some of your research methods? Lang: There were two strains of research I conducted for the book. One of them was the very traditional strain of reading research on attention, neuroscience, cognitive psychology and all that stuff.

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University Data Science Programs Turn to Ethics and the Humanities

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2019

The program has courses one would expect of a data science program: programming, statistics and research methods. I see this everywhere from reading about the way machine learning will reproduce stereotypes of different kinds, race and gender, and how everyone assumes a level of neutrality when it's a machine.”

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The Low-tech Research Strategies That Are Turning Around a Failing Title I School

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

To have any hope of getting her school into that top five spot by the end of the school year, Beaird has been repurposing research methods from some of the world’s most respected education thinkers to discover which instructional approaches are most effective for students in her school. I think knowing the research is a problem.

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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. Then we evaluate the information in the source using vertical and horizontal reading. What qualifies them as an expert on this topic?

Teaching

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism

How to Go Back to School, Higher-Ed Leadership Edition

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2019

Oregon State University Research in Action podcast : one to consider adding to your queue, if it is not already there. I came into my doctoral program thinking I was going to read every word that was assigned (I didn’t).

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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

For the civil rights community, data provide the power to advocate for greater equality under the law,” the statement reads, “.anti-testing Her office has researched methods such as hands-on tasks, classroom-based activities and simulations to measure science proficiency.

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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. Then we evaluate the information in the source using vertical and horizontal reading. What qualifies them as an expert on this topic?

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iPads Did Not Revolutionize Campus Teaching (But a Few Colleges Give Every Student One)

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

By 2014, the university’s leaders had purchased iPads for every undergraduate student and moved toward placing readings and multimedia materials from core courses on iTunes U, the company’s long-running platform for educational materials, and encouraging professors to flip their classrooms.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. For classroom use, participants use a camera to respond to a prompt.

Technology

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Enhancing Student Access to Course Content: The Advantages of a Customized Website

Faculty Focus

JUNE 6, 2023

To learn all of the anatomical and physiological terminology, I have several documents and supporting resources I want my students to read and use for their studies. The material added to each module can be cataloged and linear to access and read. yet they have limitations. Designing a website on Google is easy.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. For classroom use, participants use a camera to respond to a prompt.

Technology

Technology Art Learning Students

Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. The overarching result that emerged from my personal experimentation and research was determining a framework of six categories to cultivate a student’s attention.

Attention

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. The overarching result that emerged from my personal experimentation and research was determining a framework of six categories to cultivate a student’s attention.

Attention

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary

Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This can be done through discussion, readings about cogenerative dialogues in the college or graduate school setting, or both. Currently, I am using cogen in a graduate level research methods course. They can be done as part of the course for credit or on a volunteer basis.

Teaching

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Inventing a Job-Skills Machine

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

One that hits a sweet spot, blending the rigor of traditional research methods with the convenience of modern technology. He thinks a new system is needed. A skills engine. It should “avoid tormenting people,” he says, by being easy to use. And it has to clearly offer practical value to someone who sits down to use it.

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What I Learned On My ‘Secret Sabbatical’ As a Scholar-in-Residence at a Private Company

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The public sabbatical, the one that I proposed to my university and to Steelcase, centers around being on-site at Steelcase headquarters in Grand Rapids, conducting research on active learning and active learning classrooms and communicating that research to Steelcase audiences and customers.

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