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Vidushi Adlakha; Eric Kuo – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2023
Recent critiques of physics education research (PER) studies have revoiced the critical issues when drawing causal inferences from observational data where no intervention is present. In response to a call for a "causal reasoning primer" in PER, this paper discusses some of the fundamental issues in statistical causal inference. In…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Statistical Inference, Causal Models
Yujiao Mai; Ziqian Xu; Zhiyong Zhang; Ke-Hai Yuan – Grantee Submission, 2023
Structural equation modeling (SEM) is widely used in behavioral, social, and education research. Drawing publication-ready path diagrams for SEM is not a pleasant task with the existing software. The article introduces an open-source web-based graphical application, "semdiag," for drawing WYSIWYG SEM path diagrams interactively. The…
Descriptors: Open Source Technology, Web 2.0 Technologies, Freehand Drawing, Path Analysis
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Krauss, S.; Bruckmaier, G.; Lindl, A.; Hilbert, S.; Binder, K.; Steib, N.; Blum, W. – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
Two different tools for assessing pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of mathematics teachers used in the framework of the COACTIV study are systematically compared in this paper, namely the paper-and-pencil test consisting of items on the three facets "knowledge of explaining and representation," "knowledge of student thinking and…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Mathematics Teachers, Measures (Individuals), Teacher Competency Testing
Vaske, Jerry J. – Sagamore-Venture, 2019
Data collected from surveys can result in hundreds of variables and thousands of respondents. This implies that time and energy must be devoted to (a) carefully entering the data into a database, (b) running preliminary analyses to identify any problems (e.g., missing data, potential outliers), (c) checking the reliability and validity of the…
Descriptors: Surveys, Theories, Hypothesis Testing, Effect Size