What was most read and cited from the
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Continue ReadingAs 2019 draws to a close, we’re highlighting relevant open access articles that attracted readers’ attentions this year. Learn what interested Big Data & Society readers.
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Continue ReadingAs we close out 2019 on SAGE MethodSpace, let’s look at some of the most read and cited open access posts. In this post, find sources from Methodological Innovations.
Continue ReadingLet’s look at some of the research articles readers found interesting in 2019!
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Continue ReadingAcademic Writing Month is over, academic writing continues! See two timely resources.
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Continue ReadingHave you created a video or graphical abstract? Use the comment area or message me with a link to your example, and a few sentences about what you were trying to achieve.
Categories: Creative Methods, Dissemination, Focus Series, Other, Presentation, Visuals, and Creativity, Research, Writing and Editing
Continue ReadingQualitative Approaches to Policy Research in Education: Contesting the Evidence-Based, Neoliberal Regime (Kerrigan & Johnson, 2018) Abstract: This issue highlights problems with the neoliberal research regime in education policy—one that marginalizes, homogenizes, and dismisses communities, critical voices, and methodologies that could improve educational practice. We argue for greater methodological diversity in policy studies when engaging […]
Categories: Creative Methods, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Other, Qualitative
Continue ReadingJS. In the introduction to this special issue, you state: “These political and discursive interventions in education, however, are not solely to blame for the dismissal of qualitative inquiry. Some of this blame must be apportioned to researchers themselves.” Can you make suggestions for researchers who want to conduct qualitative or mixed methods research, but fear […]
Categories: Creative Methods, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Other, Qualitative
Continue ReadingAcademia has a problem. Seven thousand papers are published every day and let’s face it; no one has the time to read abstract after abstract to find the research that they’re seeking.
Here’s where Graphical Abstracts come in. A graphical abstract is a visual summary of a written abstract, aiming to quickly and clearly convey the key message.
Categories: Creative Methods, Dissemination, Focus Series, Other, Presentation, Visuals, and Creativity, Research
Continue ReadingCreative methods for research dissemination are expanding. Graphical abstracts help readers find and understand research.
Categories: Creative Methods, Dissemination, Focus Series, Presentation, Visuals, and Creativity
Continue ReadingWho can we trust in a world of alternative facts, trolls, and spam? We should be able to turn to scientific research for reliably trust-worthy perspectives, yet even peer- reviewed journal articles can contain incorrect or misleading findings. Academic misconduct– including falsifying data, selectively analyzing data, plagiarizing others’ work, or biased reporting– is a troubling problem […]
Categories: Focus Series, Instruction, Research, Research Ethics, Teaching, Tools and Resources
Continue ReadingDuring the month of December the Focus Series will explore ways researchers, writers, academics, and students collaborate to conduct and write about research. In this guest post, Melissa Nolas and Christos Varvantakis discuss their collaborative project: starting a new scholarly journal. In being invited to contribute this post we both had to think long and hard about whether there […]
Categories: Focus Series, Multimodal, Other, Research
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