Educational Research Journal Research Articles

An Introduction to Educational Research through Scholarly Bricolage

A variety of different approaches, theories and philosophies can be used to engage in diverse range of projects through bricolage (Sharp, 2019). The use of bricolage employs difference in research methods and stimulates creativity (Kincheloe, 2011). Projects have spanned a range of scholarly activities and included learning about an assessment and evaluation research group and supporting KMB of research group activities through reporting and website design. Gathering information on awards, funding as well as activities and publications from our group members enables us to summarize key information and reflect comprehensive work in visual and written reports. We focused on the content, graphics, structure and navigation aspects of our website. Research within assessment and evaluation plays an important role in teaching and learning process. By conducting data analysis on testing student competency development in an evaluation course, we translated the research question into the language of statistical tests of hypotheses. Paired two-sample t-test and two-way ANOVA test are generated using statistical programming language R. After processing the data, we took authorship roles in a peer-reviewed publication and presentation to write the findings based on the results and interpret the ultimate impact. Our findings have identified the evaluator competencies are improved apparently through the evaluation course where the findings are supported by the data of pre- and post-course scores. Overall, this summer learning opportunity allowed us to piece together a different understanding that demonstrated the power of collaboration when diverse skill sets are brought together to advance and make visible educational ideas.
 References
 Kincheloe J. L. (2011). Describing the bricolage: Conceptualizing a new rigor in qualitative research. In Steinberg S. R., Kenneth T. (Eds.), Key works in critical pedagogy (pp. 177–189). Brill Sense. Crossref. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-397-6_15
 Sharp, H. (2019). Bricolage research in history education as a scholarly mixed-methods design. History Education Research Journal, 16(1), 50-62. https://doi.org/10.18546/HERJ.16.1.05

Introduction to the special issue ‘Return of the nation: Education in an era of rising nationalism and populism’

This Special Issue of the European Educational Research Journal (Special Issue) contributes to the ongoing debate on the relationship between education, nationalism and populism to enhance scholarly understanding of the construction and maintenance of nationalism. The special issue consists in total of six original articles that cover different sources, spaces and forms of nationalism: banal and virulent, strategic and habitual, reproduced by state actors and power elites versus individuals or groups who echo, subvert or extend the official narratives and nationalism as both nested in topographical spaces as well as in topological relations. It foregrounds the specificity of nationalism as a discursive-material-affective practice that unfolds contextually. The articles highlight, for instance, the relationships between nationalism and other `isms’ (populism, religious conservatism and authoritarianism) and the evolving processes such as climate emergency, improving recognition of indigenous rights, ambiguous expertisation or ubiquitous digitalisation. Overall, for the sociologies of education, the special issue highlights the importance of exploring both how education reproduces nationalism and how nationalism (as a strategy, practice, discourse, place-building and position-legitimating or affect) intervenes in and takes advantage of education.

Parental experiences of accessing assessments for special educational needs

AbstractAn individual is considered to have special educational needs (SEN) if they require special educational provision to enable them to access education (British Educational Research Journal, 2011, 37, 421). In 2014, a new SEN code of conduct was established, which saw further amendments the following year (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/398815/SEND_Code_of_Practice_January_2015.pdf, 2015). Research has suggested that, prior to these reforms, many parents were dissatisfied with the process of accessing SEN assessments. Literature focusing on parental experiences since the reforms remains limited and often only relates to children with an Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP). This phenomenological research aims to provide an insight into the experiences of parents who have tried to access assessments for their child's possible SEN since the 2014 SEN reforms. Five participants, who had engaged with the SEN system, were selected using purposive sampling. Semi‐structured interviews were used to gain in‐depth qualitative data surrounding their experiences. Thematic analysis of the data indicates that parents are having to persistently fight to access assessments, which can affect the well‐being of the whole family.

Language and education in transnational school careers: An introduction

This special issue of the European Educational Research Journal (EERJ) addresses language and education in transnational school careers. The articles reflect an increased interest in transnationalization among members of the European Educational Research Association, Network on Language and Education (Network 31), and go back to a joint discussion in two sessions at the ECER 2019 Conference at the University of Hamburg. By focusing on research into multilingualism in transnational educational trajectories, the special issue links two research bodies that have so far existed separately: research on multilingualism and education, and research on transnational education. The contributions are situated in different national contexts and pursue a transnational perspective. They focus on different aspects in language-related transnational educational processes and center around challenges and possibilities that are encountered by individuals and families whose biographies are shaped by changes across national borders and educational systems. They also present and discuss different methodological frameworks and approaches, and a robust critique of monolingual educational institutions in Europe and beyond.

Female representation among editorial boards of social, clinical, and educational pharmacy journals

Recent studies on editorial team members of healthcare journals have been showing disparities in this distribution. However, there are limited data with respect to pharmacy journals. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of women among editorial board members of social, clinical, and educational pharmacy research journals around the globe. A cross-sectional study was conducted between September and October 2022. Data were extracted from Scimago Journal & Country Rank and Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Journal Citation Reports The top 10 journals in each region of the world (continents) were analyzed. Editorial board members were categorized into four groups and determined based on information available on the journal's website. The sex was classified in binary form through name and photography, the personal and institutional web pages, or the Genderize program. A total of 45 journals were identified in the databases, of which 42 of them were analyzed. We identified 1482 editorial board members with only 527 (35.6%) being female. Analyzing the subgroups, there were 47 total editors-in-chief, 44 total co-editors, 272 associate editors, and 1119 editorial advisors. Of these, 10 (21.27%), 21 (47.72%), 115 (42.27%), and 381 (34.04%) were female, respectively. Only 9 journals (21.42%) presented more females among their editorial board members. A notable sex disparity among social, clinical, and educational pharmacy journals' editorial board members was identified. Efforts should be made to involve more female sex in their editorial teams.

Opportunities to improve student mathematics achievement and outcomes: Building student–teacher relationships and the integration of inclusive and equity‐minded teaching practices

Opportunities to improve student mathematics achievement and outcomes: Building student–teacher relationships and the integration of inclusive and equity‐minded teaching practices

한국 비교교육학의 연구 동향

[Purpose]This article aims to analyze the trend of comparative education research in South Korea since the 2010s, when it entered a period of qualitative sophistication. With the purpose we tried to grasp the characteristics of comparative education research in the context of South Korea.
 [Methods]For this purpose, we analyzed 581 papers published from 2010 to 2022 by Korean Journal of Comparative Education which is one of the most representative comparative education research journal in South Korea with Bray&Thoams(1995) analysis frame.
 [Results]First, the systematic aspect of comparative education research has been gradually secured since 2010 as the number of English issues was increased. Second, from the academic aspect, it was found that the diversity of Korean comparative education research has relatively increased compared to before 2010. There was a significant increase in the number of studies applying literature research methods. At the geographic/locational levels, interest in developed countries was maintained, while interest in developing countries also expaneded. In aspects of education and of society, it was expanded while maintaining the tradition of educational administration. In terms of nonlocational demograhpic groups, it showed that there was a high level of interest in higher education and teacher groups.
 [Conclusion]The research trend since 2010 showed a shift of viewpoints in relation to the changes in the position of South Korea in the international community. For the qualitative growth of Korean comparative education research, it is necessary to make effort to secure diversity.

Towards a curriculum of darkness: re-storying and retribution in youth arts programmes

ABSTRACT Our inquiry considers how minoritized youth counter brutal hegemony by re-imagining their identities through arts. In particular, it explores how minoritized youth draw on dark themes to (re)present their lives in creative production. Since K-12 educational contexts are often viewed as sites of convivial ambience where student depictions of violence are discouraged (Phillips [2012]. “Retribution and Rebellion: Children’s Meaning Making of Justice Through Storytelling.” International Journal of Early Childhood 44: 141–156.), research is needed to explicate how youth engage themes of physical violence, destruction, and even death in storying their lives. Our article is guided by the following questions: How do minoritized youth engage dark themes that disrupt discourses of conviviality in re-storying their lives? Why is a curriculum of darkness important for radical healing? Our illumination of the ways in which minoritized youth explored violence and destruction in their creative work significantly extends the literature on young people’s examination of identity and inequality. Our study brings attention to the need for a curriculum of darkness, where pedagogy might better reflect the dark themes that are culturally relevant (Ladson-Billings [1995]. “Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy.” American Educational Research Journal 32 (3): 465–491.) to the identities and lives of minoritized young people.

Voices of Silence: Experiences in Disseminating Scholarship as a Global South Researcher

Issue: There is an unspoken requirement that medical education researchers living in the Global South must disseminate their work using dominant frames constructed by individuals living in the Global North. As such, the published literature in our field is dominated by researchers whose work primarily benefits the Western world, casting the rest of what is published as localized and unhelpful knowledge. In this article, we use Audre Lorde’s conception of the Master’s house as a metaphor to narrate the experiences of two South African medical education researchers trying to disseminate their work into North American venues. In addition to narrating these stories, we describe the personal and professional consequences they experienced as a result of their efforts. Evidence: For researchers working outside of the Global North, entering the Master’s formidable house is daunting, and there is no clear pathway in. These narratives illustrate how reviewers and editorial staff act as gatekeepers, continuously shaping ideas about what it means to do acceptable research, and who is allowed to disseminate it within the field. These narratives also show that those who have been rejected by these gatekeepers are often conflicted about their position within the larger field of medical education. Implications: To begin to address this issue, we have made several suggestions for the research community to consider. First, medical education research journals need to create spaces for researchers publishing from the Global South. One suggestion is for journals to create a submission type that is dedicated to researchers working outside of North America. Second, journals should also include more Global South editors and reviewers to help with knowledge translation when articles are submitted from outside North America. If our collective goal is to improve the training of physicians and the health outcomes of humanity, then we need to renovate the Master’s house and begin to break down the barriers that separate us from truly building together.

String Music Education Research: A Content Analysis of Peer-Reviewed Journals From 1990–2021

Abstract The purpose of this study was to identify trends in string research published in peer-reviewed music education research journals between 1990 and 2021. String education research was defined as scholarly articles in which the purpose of the article pertained specifically to string education and/or at least 33% of the participants played bowed stringed instruments. Peer-reviewed journals were determined based on Hamann and Lucas's (1998) list of top-tier journals, Farmer and Kloss's (2022) quasi-replication of that study, a 2006 list compiled by a music education researcher, and an informal survey of music education faculty at a large midwestern university. The resulting list included the Journal of Research in Music Education, Psychology of Music, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Music Education Research, International Journal of Music Education, Research Studies in Music Education, Philosophy of Music Education Review, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, and String Research Journal.For each journal issue, the researchers counted the total number of scholarly articles (N = 4,727) and the total number of string education research articles (n = 276). String education articles represented less than 6% of the total scholarly articles, or less than 5% without the String Research Journal. The method, instruments, participants, and topic of each string article were also recorded. Descriptive research methods were used most frequently, strings and violin were the most frequent instrument categories studied, university students were the most studied participant population, and musical training and skills was the most frequently investigated topic.

How women of colour engineering faculty respond to wage disparities

ABSTRACT Women of Color (WoC) engineering faculty in higher education differ in their approaches to coping with inequities and salary disparities. This study draws upon McGee's Stereotype Management [McGee, E. O. 2016. “Devalued Black and Latino Racial Identities: A By-Product of College STEM Culture?” American Educational Research Journal 53 (6): 1626–1662; McGee, E. O. 2020a. Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/black,-brown,-bruised#] and Identity Taxation [Hirshfield, L. E., and T. D. Joseph. 2012. “‘We Need a Woman, We Need a Black Woman': Gender, Race, and Identity Taxation in the Academy.” Gender and Education 24 (2): 213–227] to understand how WoC in Engineering respond to race and gender-based salary disparity in engineering higher education. Results reveal that WoC contend with identity taxation that forces them to navigate gendered negotiation systems to achieve salary parity. The racial backgrounds of WoC appeared to influence how they managed the impacts of pay inequity. Stereotype management emerges as a form of identity taxation that WoC use to navigate their academic environments. Our research suggests that, rather than confronting their structural racism, institutions of higher education place the onus on scholars of colour to use strategies to protect themselves from the reality of race/gendered wage disparity.

FLIPPED CLASSROOM IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A LITERATURE REVIEW OF PUBLICATIONS IN MAJOR REFERRED JOURNALS FROM 2014 TO 2020

In recent years, the flipped classroom has aroused an international research upsurge. Although there are many literature reviews on flipped classrooms, applying and exploring flipped classroom models in higher education is not enough. To understand fully applying flipped classrooms in university settings, this study reviewed 23 articles on flipped classrooms in higher education published in five major educational technology research journals from January 2014 to December 2020. Most research has focused on undergraduate higher education, conducting quantitative studies on subjects such as STEM and education. China has contributed the most to flipped classroom-related research in higher education. Most of the articles have corroborated the positive influence of flipped classrooms on students' academic performance, motivation, attitude, perception, and satisfactions, as well as the cultivation of students’ higher-order thinking ability, and few have discussed the challenges faced by flipped classrooms. In addition, the study corroborated several gaps in the literature. More research needs concern associated with the negative views of teachers and students on flipped classrooms in colleges and universities. This study can provide a valuable reference for educators and researchers in flipped classrooms.

Educational technology research during the COVID-19 pandemic

PurposeThis systematic review paper aims to examine extant empirical research involving educational technology during COVID-19 to provide an aggregated analysis of how the pandemic has influenced educational technology research.Design/methodology/approachUsing a Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis systematic review and an integrative review methodology, 50 primary research studies were selected from ten top-ranked educational research journals. These studies were reviewed regarding research purposes, methodologies, instruments, educational level, geographical distribution, and findings of the studies.FindingsThe findings reveal four emerging themes: influencing factors, effectiveness, challenges and teachers. The majority of the studies focused on higher education. Quantitative research design based on a questionnaire was the most adopted method of investigation by researchers.Research limitations/implicationsSearch parameters focused on the top 10 journals in the field of educational technology. Although this provides a level of quality, it narrowed the search.Practical implicationsFor practitioners and researchers, this study provides a summary of the field to better understand what knowledge we have gained on the use of educational technology to enable a more agile, knowledgeable response to education in future emergencies.Originality/valueThis systematic review is unique in examining how the pandemic has influenced educational technology research. It also provides insight into gaps in the research that future researchers can use as a springboard to enable a more knowledge and a more agile approach to future emergencies.

Integrated STEM Education: A Content Analysis of Three STEM Education Research Journals

In this content analysis, the authors examined articles from three international STEM journals to highlight and indicate if there were any trends for iSTEM research from 2013 to 2018. Of the 296 articles analyzed in this content analysis, 41 investigated the integration of STEM disciplines. Findings revealed that integrated STEM (iSTEM) education research is often qualitative and occurs in the United States. This study also indicates an upward trend in the percentage of iSTEM education research from 2013 to 2018, and many of the articles focused on middle school students. A closer examination of the introductions, backgrounds, and literature reviews of the 41 articles revealed four explicit definitions for iSTEM education. Furthermore, STEM and Education were the most frequently used author keywords and ERIC descriptors.

STEM Education Trends: A Content Analysis of Three International STEM Journals

This content analysis adds to STEM Education research by highlighting trends in the subfields of STEM education and identifying at what educational levels this research has been conducted. Since their start, all published articles were analyzed from three international STEM education research journals—IJEMST, IJSE, and J-STEM. After logging the relevant information on a spreadsheet, analyzing the data, and looking at the results, the authors identified that technology and engineering education are still underrepresented in STEM education; that more than 50% of the research focused on only one of the four STEM silos; and that most research occurred in higher education settings.

Universal Educations of College Policy – Trainings for Pakistanian on Modernization and Danger

This editorial provides background information and outlines the goals of this special edition of Pakistanian Educational Research Journal, which gathers four stories of research on schools that are being marketed as cutting-edge learning settings from various foreign contexts (ILEs). The overarching goal is to increase our understanding of innovation, as well as the difficulties and dangers that people involved in the creation and use of ILEs face. We start by highlighting a few crucial factors for academics involved in ILE projects, which put a focus on participatory methods to innovation and educational and social transformation at the forefront of the work. We then highlight a few points for readers to remember as they reflect on the arguments made in different paper

Universal Educations of College Policy – Trainings for Pakistani an on Modernization and Danger

This editorial provides background information and outlines the goals of this special edition of Pakistanian Educational Research Journal, which gathers four stories of research on schools that are being marketed as cutting-edge learning settings from various foreign contexts (ILEs). The overarching goal is to increase our understanding of innovation, as well as the difficulties and dangers that people involved in the creation and use of ILEs face. We start by highlighting a few crucial factors for academics involved in ILE projects, which put a focus on participatory methods to innovation and educational and social transformation at the forefront of the work. We then highlight a few points for readers to remember as they reflect on the arguments made in different paper

Universal Educations of College Policy – Trainings for Pakistanian on Modernization and Danger

This editorial provides background information and outlines the goals of this special edition of Pakistanian Educational Research Journal, which gathers four stories of research on schools that are being marketed as cutting-edge learning settings from various foreign contexts (ILEs). The overarching goal is to increase our understanding of innovation, as well as the difficulties and dangers that people involved in the creation and use of ILEs face. We start by highlighting a few crucial factors for academics involved in ILE projects, which put a focus on participatory methods to innovation and educational and social transformation at the forefront of the work. We then highlight a few points for readers to remember as they reflect on the arguments made in different paper

EDITORIAL: RESEARCH ON DATA SCIENCE EDUCATION

A very warm welcome to this Special Issue of the Statistics Education Research Journal (SERJ) on data science education. Our hope is to give an overview of selected theoretical thoughts and empirical studies on data science education from a statistics education research perspective. Data science education is rapidly developing but research into data science education is still in its infancy. The current issue presents a snapshot of this developing field.

Higher Education Reforms in Algeria between Quantitative Requirements and Quality Challenges - Diagnostic Study of the Course of Reforms in the Higher Education Sector in Algeria -

This study aims to provide a diagnostic study of the course of the development of reforms and modifications in the higher education system in Algeria, by addressing the most important pillars on which these reforms were based, especially with regard to the training structure defined by each track. The study also touched on the most important achievements made, especially in the field of development of student censuses and training institutions, the quality of training offered to students, and the imbalances and problems that resulted from the application of these reforms. To achieve these goals, the study used the descriptive approach, and relied on statistics and reports of the Ministry of Higher Education and National Research and national scientific journals to collect data. The study concluded that it is necessary to reconsider training engineering in general, and in structuring the pedagogical organization specially approved