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McAlevey, Lynn G.; Stent, Alan F. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2018
The treatment of kurtosis in textbooks is both sparse and contradictory with applications rarely discussed. To address this, an easily understood definition of kurtosis is introduced and important applications are demonstrated. Two different approaches to teaching kurtosis are presented based on a financial application.
Descriptors: Statistical Distributions, Undergraduate Students, Probability, Statistical Data
Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2015
Student employment subsidies are one of the largest types of employment subsidies and one of the oldest forms of student aid. The Federal Work-Study program (FWS) is the largest student employment subsidy program; since 1964, it has provided about $1 billion per year to cover 75 percent of wages for student employees, who typically work on campus…
Descriptors: Work Study Programs, Federal Programs, Outcomes of Education, Student Employment
Xu, Di; Jaggars, Shanna Smith; Fletcher, Jeffrey – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2016
Using detailed administrative data from Virginia, this paper examines how and why the community college pathway to a baccalaureate influences students' degree attainment and short-term labor market performance. We find that the community college pathway sharply reduces the likelihood of earning a bachelor's degree but does not have a significant…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees
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Christofides, Louis N.; Hoy, Michael; Milla, Joniada; Stengos, Thanasis – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015
In this paper, we exploit a rich longitudinal data set to explore the forces that, during high school, shape the development of aspirations to attend university and achieve academic success. We then investigate how these aspirations, along with grades and other variables, impact educational outcomes such as going to university and graduating. It…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Longitudinal Studies, Academic Achievement, Achievement Need
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Kivlighan, Dennis M., Jr.; Kivlighan, D. Martin, III; Cole, Odessa Dorian – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2012
The group's absence norm, a construct from the applied psychology literature, was used to examine session absences in personal growth groups. Rather than examining the absence norm statically, we modeled it dynamically as a time-varying covariate (Tasca et al., 2010). We also examined moderation by modeling the interaction of the absence norm and…
Descriptors: Interaction, Statistical Data, Probability, Group Therapy
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Canaes, Larissa S.; Brancalion, Marcel L.; Rossi, Adriana V.; Rath, Susanne – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
A classroom exercise for undergraduate and beginning graduate students that takes about one class period is proposed and discussed. It is an easy, interesting exercise that demonstrates important aspects of sampling techniques (sample amount, particle size, and the representativeness of the sample in relation to the bulk material). The exercise…
Descriptors: College Students, Statistical Data, Sampling, Evaluation
Dinov, Ivo D. – Online Submission, 2006
The need for hands-on computer laboratory experience in undergraduate and graduate statistics education has been firmly established in the past decade. As a result a number of attempts have been undertaken to develop novel approaches for problem-driven statistical thinking, data analysis and result interpretation. In this paper we describe an…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Statistical Analysis, Probability, Internet