How can teachers, professors, etc., analyze students' compositions properly by using a software? Please help.

What software can help a professor analyze her or his students' written work?

10 November 2014 4,864 0 View

How can teachers help their students become better learners by doing research in the teachers' own backyards?

Richards (1996) states that teachers can solve classroom problems when they become research practitioners. Is this true? How can this be substantiated?

05 June 2014 8,738 4 View

How can Researchgate Materials be used to enhance reading comprehension among academically struggling students?

According to PISA international rankings, Colombian students as well as students from several other Latin American countries are struggling readers. How can we use researchgate science materials...

11 December 2013 1,873 5 View

What is quality?

Qualitative research is used to discover process, i.e., the way things happen in education, medicine, engineering, etc. How does this question translate to education?

10 November 2013 5,582 8 View

How can researchers in developing nations work with American, Canadian, and European nations to instill cultural and educational change?

The United States, Canada and European countries offer various types of educational and financial assistance to help develping nation in terms of education. Is this enough? Also, there are...

03 April 2013 564 0 View

How can a professor use Research Gate among his students to enhance a spirit of innovation, creativity, and discovery?

Having returned from the United States to Colombia, I have found that my students almost always use the "we-can't-do-that" expression. I wish to expose them to innovative ways of thinking. I also...

02 March 2013 5,352 27 View

What can a professor do when he is teaching his own co-workers and some of his superiors?

Fairclough (1989) describes power as socially constructed elements used by power holders to hold down individuals who do not belong to their specific social group. However, this is not the case...

02 March 2013 5,351 2 View

Do people from different cultures learn differently? How can this be observed?

I have observed that in North America, many people make shopping lists, waiters and waitresses write restaurant orders, and individuals strictly follow year long plans. However, in other cultures...

02 March 2013 5,832 47 View

What are the benefits of standardized testing? What are its drawbacks? Who profits from it?

Norman Fairclaugh believes that standardized testing is used to discriminate against students instead of helping them. I wonder if his theory is believable? By the same token, Finnish schools do...

01 February 2013 7,394 7 View

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More and more often, countries all over the world are fostering research. What can be done so that all researchers understand each other better? How can this help researchers work cooperatively...

01 February 2013 2,293 16 View

Do you know of an informal caregiver of a person who has recently received a bone marrow transplant?

We are conducting a pilot study of an intervention for informal caregivers of persons who have recently received a bone marrow transplant in the US. If you know of anyone who might be interested,...

13 February 2021 9,174 1 View

Does Location Map of Informal Settlements in South Africa exist?

I urgently need a map that shows the point locations of informal settlements in South Africa. I am currently working on a study that seeks to relate protests location to the location of informal...

02 February 2021 4,113 7 View

Are there existing studies in economic sociology that have applied Kalyan Sanyal's theoretical framework as a methodological basis?

To be precise, I am looking for studies on informal labour that have taken on board Sanyal's category of the Need Economy and his 'Politics of Exclusion' in studying the political-economy of...

26 January 2021 4,219 3 View

Is recycling a challenge to the governments of developing countries?

Is recycling a challenge to the governments of developing countries? A strong will for more serious aggressively organized recycling initiatives, embedded with strict regulations supported through...

12 January 2021 510 13 View

Does these studies, and research based recommendations bring any positive change.?

A strong will for more serious aggressively organized recycling, embedded with strict regulations supported through public awareness projects/programs to be instituted both by formal and informal...

03 January 2021 3,202 2 View

Do you know someone with knowledge of France in 1700s?

I am in search of those who are familiar with the French & European societies at the end of 1700s to join me in writing a book as my co-authors. The book is on Marie Antoinette. Looking at...

01 October 2020 9,095 5 View

How informal learning can impact the learning culture of the organization?

Need to know specific parameters which impact the learning culture variables.

23 September 2020 233 4 View

How do we formalize peer learning?

22 September 2020 8,688 16 View

What are the physical and socio-economic causes behind the unprecedented urban growth in developing countries (i.e. Karachi, Pakistan)?

What type of expected physical and socio-economic variables can be taken to examine unprecedented growth w.r.t informal developmental growth? If possible, please suggest some variables. I shall...

17 September 2020 8,202 1 View

How to report answers of semi- structured interviews?

I need some tips on how to analyse and write down a report of a semi-structured interviews, I collected answers and i have to begin to analyse and report the answers, this is a part of my...

22 August 2020 9,519 4 View