A Qualitative Look at Quantitative Data

A Qualitative Look at Alice and Pair-Programming

In previous studies, we have used quantitative methods to examine the effectiveness of the Alice programming language in terms of student enjoyment, confidence, and learning outcomes. However, in terms of the overall quality of a learning experience, quantitative measures provide only part of the story. This paper reports on the use of Alice from a student perspective using qualitative data gat...

A Qualitative Look at Eye-tracking for Implicit Relevance Feedback

Our goal in this study was to explore the potentials of extracting features from eye-tracking data that have the potential to improve performance in implicit relevance feedback. We view this type of data as an example of the searcher’ immediate context and as containing useful clues of the indications of the interaction between the searcher and the IR system. In particular, we explored if we co...

A Look at the Challenges of Boundary-Spanner Academic Leaders

The present study was an exploratory sequential mixed method approach, so the qualitative section of the study was done by descriptive phenomenology method. The participants in the qualitative section included academic administrators with managerial experience who by criterion sampling and saturation in the research findings, 12 were selected for the interview. Research tools in the section wer...

A Different Look at Peer-Reviewing of Articles

A look at signification of ‘then’ in the Holy Quran

‘Then’ as one of conjunctions, has many usages in Arabic language. Since one of its usages is in the religious texts and the Holy Quran so that its different usages effect on the style, meaning, and concepts, and also, due to the sensitivity and significance of the Holy Quran, understanding the exact meaning of this conjunction, i.e. ‘then’, and studying its various stat...