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Bessette, Harriet J.; Paris, Nita A. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2020
In this study, teachers explored their professional identities by reflecting on their teaching role(s) and contexts through elicitation of textual (written) metaphors and visual (drawn) metaphors of teaching. Participants created impromptu drawings emblematic of their conceptualized metaphor. Analysis of participants' written metaphors and…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Attitudes, Reflection, Teaching Methods
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McLaren, Ingrid Ann Marie – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2012
This paper describes a study which uses quantitative and qualitative methods in determining the relationship between academic, institutional and psychological variables and degree performance for a sample of Jamaican undergraduate students. Quantitative methods, traditionally associated with the positivist paradigm, and involving the counting and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Qualitative Research, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
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Hampden-Thompson, Gillian; Lubben, Fred; Bennett, Judith – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2011
Quantitative secondary analysis of large-scale data can be combined with in-depth qualitative methods. In this paper, we discuss the role of this combined methods approach in examining the uptake of physics and chemistry in post compulsory schooling for students in England. The secondary data analysis of the National Pupil Database (NPD) served…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Physics, Chemistry, Measures (Individuals)
Papanastasiou, Elena C.; Zembylas, Michalinos – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2008
The study reported in this article examines the nature of anxiety that undergraduate students experience in a research methods course and explores some of the factors that influence their anxiety levels. Two questionnaires measuring the attitudes towards research and the anxiety level were administered to 472 students enrolled in a research…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teacher Education Curriculum, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries
Rushi, Purva J. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2007
This study examined the influence of academic self-efficacy and social support on the academic success of Indian-American and Caucasian-American undergraduate students. 200 Indian-American and Caucasian-American students completed a demographic form and five surveys. The data showed that academic self-efficacy had a significant effect on college…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, White Students, American Indians, American Indian Education