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Bara, Jason Edward; McLemore, John Patrick – Chemical Engineering Education, 2020
There appears to be no published knowledge regarding how humans use unit conversions. Until very recently, acquiring such data would be essentially impossible, but mobile devices have now enabled many questions to be answered through passive "crowdsourcing" of big data sets. This work details the analysis of five years of anonymous user…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Foreign Countries, Computation
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Bonnell, Andrew G. – Australian Universities' Review, 2016
Australian universities are increasingly resorting to the use of journal metrics such as impact factors and ranking lists in appraisal and promotion processes, and are starting to set quantitative "performance expectations" which make use of such journal-based metrics. The widespread use and misuse of research metrics is leading to…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Educational Research, Journal Articles, Faculty Publishing
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Atkin, Keith – Physics Education, 2015
The current use of two sets of units in the UK continues to be a source of muddle and confusion. Young people are taught metric (SI) units in school but, in the outside world, still have to contend with units such as inches, feet, pounds, stones and miles. Specialist teachers and practitioners of the sciences are not blameless. This paper…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Metric System, Educational Change
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Mullin, Christopher M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2012
The need for educational programs to show their return on investment is exemplified in the intense debate surrounding gainful employment programs--defined as programs that lead to gainful employment in a recognized occupation and theoretically differ from programs that offer education in the liberal arts or prepare students for further education.…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Education Work Relationship, Cost Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness
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Simon, Marsha; Black, William R. – International Journal of Special Education, 2011
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) of 2004 and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) require that students with disabilities have equal access to general education curricula and contexts. Florida's Differentiated Accountability Program (DAP) is designed to support educators in meeting IDEA and NCLB…
Descriptors: Evidence, Federal Legislation, Metric System, Disabilities
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Andru, Peter; Botchkarev, Alexei – Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 2011
Background: Return on investment (ROI) is one of the most popular evaluation metrics. ROI analysis (when applied correctly) is a powerful tool of evaluating existing information systems and making informed decisions on the acquisitions. However, practical use of the ROI is complicated by a number of uncertainties and controversies. The article…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Information Systems, School Business Officials, Evaluation Methods
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Ritchey, Kristen D.; Coker, David L., Jr.; McCraw, Sara B. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2010
The authors investigated four spelling scoring metrics: total words correct, correct letter sequences, correct sounds, and phonological coding scoring (developed by Tangel and Blachman) across two studies with children in kindergarten. The relationships between spelling scores and measures of reading, phonological awareness, and writing skills…
Descriptors: Spelling, Intervals, Phonology, Metric System
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Hemmings, Brian; Kay, Russell – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2010
An investigation of factors which differentiate between university lecturers in relation to publication output is reported. The study drew on data from lecturers working full-time at two large Australian universities. Measures of research publication output were used to select two groups of lecturers (N[subscript 1] = 119; N[subscript 2] = 119);…
Descriptors: Working Hours, Test Results, Metric System, College Faculty
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Altanopoulou, Panagiota; Dontsidou, Maria; Tselios, Nikolaos – Quality in Higher Education, 2012
In this article, 93 Greek university departments were evaluated according to their academics' h-index. A representative sample from the fields of social sciences and humanities, sciences, engineering, pharmacy and economics was adopted. In the reported study, 3354 (approximately 1 out of 3) academics serving in Greek universities were evaluated.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Sciences, Intellectual Disciplines, Humanities
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Grigson, Anna – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2009
The University of Westminster began collecting and analyzing vendor usage reports since starting their e-book collections in 2004. They have used the results both to monitor the use of the collections and to calculate basic cost-per-use metrics that have informed decisions on whether to renew particular resources. In 2008, they sought to extend…
Descriptors: Metric System, Case Studies, Data Analysis, Online Vendors
Wilkes, Shani; Brohawn, Kathryn; Mevs, Pascale; Lee, Jaein – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University (NJ1), 2012
Education leaders across the country confront a growing challenge: too many students are not college ready when they leave high school. Although indicators exist to identify students at risk of dropping out of high school, few indicators of students' college readiness are currently in place, and few districts have linked indicators to practices…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Metric System, College Preparation, Agency Cooperation
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Kinman, Virginia – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2009
Digital resources play an increasingly important role in academic libraries, which must demonstrate their value to the institution and their impact on student learning outcomes in new and more compelling ways. This study examines 5 years of vendor-supplied e-resource usage data in conjunction with other library and institution measures. Results…
Descriptors: Metric System, Academic Libraries, Library Research, Online Vendors
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Edwards, Jan; Beckman, Mary E. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
Consonant mastery is one of the most widely used metrics of typical phonological acquisition and of phonological disorder. Two fundamental methodological questions concerning research on consonant acquisition are (1) how to elicit a representative sample of productions and (2) how to analyse this sample once it has been collected. This paper…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Word Lists, Metric System, Language Acquisition
Seong, Somi; Popper, Steven W.; Goldman, Charles A.; Evans, David K. – RAND Corporation, 2008
In the late 1990s, the Korea Ministry of Education and Human Resources, in response to concern over the relatively low standing of the nation's universities and researchers, launched the Brain Korea 21 program BK21). BK21 seeks to make Korean research universities globally competitive and to produce more high-quality researchers in Korea. It…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Database Design, Research Universities, Program Evaluation
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Little, Todd D.; Slegers, David W.; Card, Noel A. – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
A non-arbitrary method for the identification and scale setting of latent variables in general structural equation modeling is introduced. This particular technique provides identical model fit as traditional methods (e.g., the marker variable method), but it allows one to estimate the latent parameters in a nonarbitrary metric that reflects the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Identification, Scaling, Metric System