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Aarnes Gudmestad; Thomas A. Metzger – Language Learning, 2025
In this Methods Showcase Article, we illustrate mixed-effects modeling with a multinomial dependent variable as a means of explaining complexities in language. We model data on future-time reference in second language Spanish, which consists of a nominal dependent variable that has three levels, measured over 73 participants. We offer step-by-step…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Applied Linguistics, Predictor Variables
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Wei Wang; Xiaoying Wang; Shanshan Li; Tianshu Ma; M. N. Poni Liu; Hongzhi Sun – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The prevalence of collaborative learning in online virtual environments is on the rise. It is vital to investigate the effect of emotional interaction on the learning engagement of students. The university students who participated in 16 h of online collaborative learning responded to an anonymous survey. The instruments included Collaborative…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Online Courses, Emotional Response, Interaction
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Earl H. McKinney Jr.; Simon Ginzinger – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2024
The growing use of analytics has increased the demand for more highly data literate graduates. Awareness of ambiguity in data has been suggested as a new data literacy skill. Here, we describe a student-centered semester-long project that can be used to teach this skill in an introductory analytics or database course. The project requires students…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Student Projects, Consciousness Raising, Ambiguity (Context)
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Ricardo A. Medina – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2022
Within this issue of "Teacher Education Quarterly," the authors examine the social justice knowledge of teachers, reflective practices, and predictors of performance on the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA). This article is a response to those articles and offers continued probes into who should be allowed to teach our…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Knowledge Level, Reflective Teaching, Predictor Variables
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Balloo, Kieran; Winstone, Naomi E. – Frontline Learning Research, 2021
A significant challenge currently facing the higher education sector is how to address differential student outcomes in terms of attainment and continuation gaps at various stages of students' transitions. Worryingly, there appears to be a 'deficit' discourse among some university staff in which differential outcomes are perceived to be due to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Attainment, Achievement Gap, Outcomes of Education
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Petersen, Ashley – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2022
While correlated data methods (like random effect models and generalized estimating equations) are commonly applied in practice, students may struggle with understanding the reasons that standard regression techniques fail if applied to correlated outcomes. To this end, this article presents an in-class activity using results from Monte Carlo…
Descriptors: Intuition, Skill Development, Correlation, Graduate Students
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 2022
Institutions of higher education face a great deal of pressure to be accessible, inclusive, and diverse, but these goals should not come at the expense of maintaining high standards. Universal and vigilantly enforced standards exist not only to safeguard students' best interests, but are crucial to the academic integrity and core educational…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Academic Standards, College Readiness
Hoffman, Nancy; O'Connor, Anna; Mawhinney, Joanna – Jobs for the Future, 2022
The purpose of this brief is to provide school-level examples of how early college practitioners are collecting and using data to improve their practices. Examples three and four are school-level data from two early college partnerships: the MetroWest CPC (Framingham, Milford, Waltham), and Lawrence. The brief begins, however, with the national…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, High Schools, Universities
Allen, Jeff; Anguiano-Carrasco, Cristina; Walton, Kate E. – ACT, Inc., 2022
This paper documents the development of the Mosaic Readiness Index, a score that is reported for individuals who take the high school version of Mosaic by ACT®: Social Emotional Learning Assessment (hereafter referred to as the Mosaic assessment). The Mosaic Readiness Index is designed to predict high school academic outcomes--namely high school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Aptitude Tests, Social Emotional Learning, Predictor Variables
Walton, Kate E.; Allen, Jeff; Burrus, Jeremy; Murano, Dana – ACT, Inc., 2022
Social and emotional (SE) skills are known to be linked with many important life outcomes, including academic performance, performance on standardized college entrance exams, and college enrollment, although research on enrollment is limited. In this report, the authors present data points from a study that evaluated test-criterion validity…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, College Attendance, Postsecondary Education
Allen, Jeff; Mattern, Krista; Camara, Wayne – ACT, Inc., 2020
This brief presents a method for predicting the impact of school closures on average ACT® test scores. The purpose is to illustrate a methodology and major conditions that should be considered in predicting aggregate ACT scores when school closes prematurely and learning and testing are disrupted. Across three scenarios examined herein, the impact…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Outcomes of Education, School Closing, College Entrance Examinations
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Test, David W.; Carter, Erik; Coyle, Jennifer; Seaman-Tullis, Rachel; Rusher, Dana; Odom, Samuel L. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Given the continuing poor post-school outcomes for students with ASD, combined with the limited number of current interventions to address the problem, the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services'(OSERS) charged the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT) with identifying and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Secondary School Students, Transitional Programs
Zimmerman, Bethany – Liberal Education, 2018
Clay Christensen predicted half of colleges and universities would go bankrupt or close within a decade. Each year brings more financial trouble: a quarter of all private nonprofit institutions experienced deficits in 2017. More than two-thirds (68 percent) of financial officers at four-year private colleges reported their tuition discount rate…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Universities
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Whetten, David A. – Journal of Management Education, 2021
Ten years ago, after 20 years as a university professor, I was asked to direct the teaching and learning support center at my university. I quickly realized I had almost no knowledge of the published scholarship on this subject. From my reading of this literature, I found the research on the predictors of student learning particularly informative.…
Descriptors: Course Organization, Instructional Design, Learning Experience, Outcomes of Education
Cullinan, Dan – MDRC, 2020
Most community college students take in-person placement tests in English or math to determine whether they are required to take developmental (or remedial) courses, which are prerequisites for the college-level courses in those subjects. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced colleges to close their campuses, making in-person testing…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Two Year College Students, Tests, Disease Control
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