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Werler, Tobias Christoph; Baraldsnes, Dziuginta – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2019
This paper explores the historic ideas and practice of outdoor education, as developed in Jean Jacques Rousseau's "Émile", and realized by Adolf Reichwein's rural teaching practice. We aimed at developing a comprehensive research design, triangulating different qualitative data (text and photos). In the paper, we explore how the idea of…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Educational Research, Photography, Visual Aids
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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)