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Perceptual Dimensions Underlying Tinnitus-Like Sounds
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Lentz, Jennifer J.; He, Yuan – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The goal of this study was to establish the perceptual underpinnings of the terms that are commonly used by patients when describing the quality of their tinnitus. Method: Using a free-classification method, 15 subjects with normal hearing placed 60 different tinnitus-like sounds into similarity clusters on a grid. Multidimensional…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Patients, Classification, Acoustics
Utilizing Multidimensional Scaling to Represent the Conceptual Structures of Atomic Structure in Upper-Secondary School Teachers and Students
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Lin, Huimei; Qian, Yangyi; Wen, Jinju; Mai, Yuhua – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2022
This research aimed to explore the upper-secondary school chemistry teachers' and students' conceptual structures of atomic structure by using multidimensional scaling. Atomic structure is considered to be one of the most difficult concepts in upper-secondary school chemistry course so that the conceptual structure regarding atomic structure held…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Evaluation Criteria
Defining Typologies of Universities through a DEA-MDS Analysis: An Institutional Characterization for Formative Evaluation Purposes
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de la Torre, Eva M.; Casani, Fernando; Sagarra, Marti – Research Evaluation, 2018
Universities are organizational structures with individual activity mixes or strategies that lead to different performance levels by mission. Evaluation techniques based on performance indicators or rankings risk rewarding just a specific type of university and undermining university diversification: they usually introduce homogenizing pressures…
Descriptors: Classification, Universities, Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Mission
Concurrent Enrollment: Comparing How Educators and Students Categorize Students' Motivations
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Dare, Alec; Dare, Lynn; Nowicki, Elizabeth – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2017
High-ability students have special education needs that are often overlooked or misunderstood (Blaas in "Aust J Guid Couns" 24(2):243-255, 2014) which may result in talent loss (Saha and Sikora in "Int J Contemp Sociol Discuss J Contemp Ideas Res" 48(1):9-34, 2011). Educational acceleration can help avoid these circumstances…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Comparative Analysis, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes