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Rakhat, Berikbol; Kuralay, Bekbolatova; Akmaral, Smanova; Zhanar, Nebessayeva; Miyat, Dzhanaev – World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues, 2021
The aim of this study was to determine the examination of the researches about the use of technology by fine arts teachers. The study was conducted according to the content and citation analysis model. In this context, Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection indexes were included. In the document scanning in the WOS environment, the keywords 'Fine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Art Education, Fine Arts
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Schuler, Kathryn D.; Reeder, Patricia A.; Newport, Elissa L.; Aslin, Richard N. – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Successful language acquisition hinges on organizing individual words into grammatical categories and learning the relationships between them, but the method by which children accomplish this task has been debated in the literature. One proposal is that learners use the shared distributional contexts in which words appear as a cue to their…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Grammar, Classification, Word Frequency
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Hobden, Sally – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
Information on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa is often interpreted through a veil of secrecy and shame and, I argue, with flawed understanding of basic statistics. This research determined the levels of statistical literacy evident in 316 future Mathematical Literacy teachers' explanations of the median in the context of HIV/AIDS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Scientific Literacy, Statistics
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Kalish, Charles W.; Rogers, Timothy T.; Lang, Jonathan; Zhu, Xiaojin – Cognition, 2011
Three experiments with 88 college-aged participants explored how unlabeled experiences--learning episodes in which people encounter objects without information about their category membership--influence beliefs about category structure. Participants performed a simple one-dimensional categorization task in a brief supervised learning phase, then…
Descriptors: Supervision, Statistical Distributions, Classification, Beliefs
Geiser, Saul – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2014
The past five years have seen unprecedented changes in freshman admissions at the University of California, reflecting steep cuts in state funding that UC sustained during that period as well as changes in UC's definition of who is eligible to enter the university. The number of California applicants who were "not" admitted to the UC…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Admission, High School Graduates, Enrollment Rate
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Hoepner, Andreas G. F.; Unerman, Jeffrey – Accounting Education, 2012
This paper addresses issues raised in two recent papers published in this journal about the UK "Association of Business Schools' Journal Quality Guide (ABS Guide)". While much of the debate about journal rankings in general, and the "ABS Guide" in particular, has focused on the construction, power and (mis)use of these…
Descriptors: Bias, Classification, Quality Assurance, Periodicals
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Bakir, Saad T. – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
We propose a nonparametric (or distribution-free) procedure for testing the equality of several population variances (or scale parameters). The proposed test is a modification of Bakir's (1989, Commun. Statist., Simul-Comp., 18, 757-775) analysis of means by ranks (ANOMR) procedure for testing the equality of several population means. A proof is…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Grade Point Average, Nonparametric Statistics, Business Administration Education
Kinkead, John Clinton, II – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study had two primary objectives. First, this study sought to create a classification system to which publicly-controlled Carnegie classified Master's Colleges and Universities could be grouped according to geographical service (rural-serving, suburban-serving, or urban-serving. Second, once the classification system was developed and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Classification, Student Financial Aid, Public Colleges
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Bures, Eva Mary; Schmid, Richard F.; Abrami, Philip C. – Educational Media International, 2009
This study explores a labelling feature that allows students to tag parts of their online messages. Data comes from four sequentially offered sessions of a graduate education course. Students engaged in two to three online activities in groups of three or four. Students (n = 53) contributed from 0 to 56 labels (M = 12.42, SD = 13.50) and 18 to 114…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Graduate Students, Education Courses
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Rich, Valerie J.; Kedrowski, Jonathan J.; Richter, Scott – Athletic Training Education Journal, 2008
Context: Educational reform has recently become common thread in athletic training education. The National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) Education Task force suggests that Athletic Training Education Programs (ATEPs) align within colleges of health-related professions and offer academic majors. Objective: To provide a current profile of…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Institutional Characteristics, Profiles, Physical Education
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Baker, Bruce D.; Orr, Margaret Terry; Young, Michelle D. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2007
Purpose: This article sheds light on some basic questions about the distribution of educational leadership preparation degree programs among different types of institutions and the distribution of advanced degrees, by type, exploring change over time and the relationship to regional labor market estimates. Method: We used data from five major…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Leadership, Elementary Secondary Education, Research Universities
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Reading, Chris; Reid, Jackie – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2006
Recent research into students' reasoning about variation refers specifically to notions of distribution that emerge. This paper reports on research where written responses, from tertiary introductory statistics students, were coded according to the level of consideration of variation. A hierarchy of reasoning about distribution is proposed, based…
Descriptors: Statistical Distributions, College Students, Cognitive Processes, Classification