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Rebeka Man – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In today's era of large-scale data, academic institutions, businesses, and government agencies are increasingly faced with heterogeneous datasets. Consequently, there is a growing need to develop effective methods for extracting meaningful insights from this type of data. Quantile, expectile, and expected shortfall regression methods offer useful…
Descriptors: Data, Data Analysis, Data Use, Higher Education
Kuijpers, Renske E.; Visser, Ingmar; Molenaar, Dylan – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2021
Mixture models have been developed to enable detection of within-subject differences in responses and response times to psychometric test items. To enable mixture modeling of both responses and response times, a distributional assumption is needed for the within-state response time distribution. Since violations of the assumed response time…
Descriptors: Test Items, Responses, Reaction Time, Models
Ranger, Jochen; Kuhn, Jörg Tobias; Ortner, Tuulia M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2020
The hierarchical model of van der Linden is the most popular model for responses and response times in tests. It is composed of two separate submodels--one for the responses and one for the response times--that are joined at a higher level. The submodel for the response times is based on the lognormal distribution. The lognormal distribution is a…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Tests, Statistical Distributions, Models
Atalay, Ahmet – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim of this study was to examine the methodological tendencies in the doctorate theses which were prepared in the field of Sports Management in Turkish between 2007 and 2016 and which were open to access in the database of the Council of Higher Education (CHE) National Theses Center. In this context, 111 doctorate theses prepared in the last…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Research Methodology, Research Design, Athletics
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
Lem, Stephanie; Baert, Kathy; Ceulemans, Eva; Onghena, Patrick; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – Educational Psychology, 2017
The ability to interpret graphs is highly important in modern society, but has proven to be a challenge for many people. In this paper, two teaching methods were used to remediate one specific misinterpretation: the area misinterpretation of box plots. First, we used refutational text to explicitly state and invalidate the area misinterpretation…
Descriptors: Graphs, Teaching Methods, Misconceptions, Statistical Data
Tolulope, Akano – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2017
Libraries before the 21st century carried out daily routine library task such as cataloguing and classification, acquisition, reference services etc using manual procedures only but the advent of Information Technology as transformed these routine task that libraries can now automate their activities by deploying the use of library software in…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Demography, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
Shibru, Sintayehu; Bibiso, Mesfin; Ousman, Kedir – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The purpose of this study is to explore factors that affect institutional performance of Wolaita Sodo University. The study has identified middle level manager's perceptions toward institutional performance to indicate the key factors that seem to affect the performance of the university. Data were collected using structured questionnaires and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Institutional Evaluation, Leadership, Higher Education
Abu-Nair, Natheer Sihan – International Education Studies, 2015
The aim of the study was to reveal the future justification to adopt governance system at the Jordanian Universities from the perspective of educational experts. The study society was the academic staff in the field of education at Al-Balqa Applied University and Jordan University, at the first semester of the academic year 2013-2014. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Universities, College Faculty
Noll, Jennifer; Hancock, Stacey – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2015
This research investigates what students' use of statistical language can tell us about their conceptions of distribution and sampling in relation to informal inference. Prior research documents students' challenges in understanding ideas of distribution and sampling as tools for making informal statistical inferences. We know that these…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Inferences
Razak, Nur Afifah Binti Abdul; Hamidon, Nur Izeanty Binti – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Effective leadership helps our nation through times become a developed country. This study was undertaken to investigate the effects of leadership style among students in Technical and Vocational at University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. Descriptive study carried out to evaluate student leadership. The study sample consisted of 319 Technical and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Styles, College Students, Questionnaires
Azih, Nonye; Nwagwu, Lazarus – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This paper identified the role of electronic payment system in promoting accountability in government ministries as well as the challenges facing the implementation of e-payment in government ministries in Ebonyi State. The study was guided by two research questions and two hypotheses. The population of the study comprised of 112 accountants as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Accounting, College Graduates
Morgan, Micaela V. C.; Gerber, Michael M. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
The purpose of this study was to determine what institutionally contrived experiences would engage community college students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) study, regardless of their major. During the 2013-2014 academic year, 373 students at two California community colleges were surveyed, and an exploratory factor…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, STEM Education, Learner Engagement
Taylor, Laura; Doehler, Kirsten – Journal of Statistics Education, 2015
This paper examines the use of a randomization-based activity to introduce the ANOVA F-test to students. The two main goals of this activity are to successfully teach students to comprehend ANOVA F-tests and to increase student comprehension of sampling distributions. Four sections of students in an advanced introductory statistics course…
Descriptors: Sampling, Statistical Distributions, Statistical Analysis, Mathematics Activities
Agasisti, Tommaso; Bonomi, Francesca – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
When benchmarking its performance, a university is usually considered as a single strategic unit. According to the evidence, however, lower levels within an organisation (such as faculties, departments and schools) play a significant role in institutional governance, affecting the overall performance. In this article, an empirical analysis was…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Teacher Effectiveness, Efficiency, Universities