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Download full textLin, 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
Direct linkde 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
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
Jiang, Hua; Li, Xiaobin – Journal of International Education and Leadership, 2012
With approximately 30 million students the Chinese higher education system is the largest in the world. In every publicly funded institution there is a communist party secretary, however, little is known about these party secretaries. The purpose of the study was to understand who these people were. We collected data from 1,751 party secretaries…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics, Administrators, Higher Education
McConnell, William; Marton, John P. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2013
In an attempt to influence students' appreciation of the value of research, the authors introduced a multidimensional scaling activity in a section of introductory psychology. In two consecutive 80-minute classes, 32 students worked in pairs, categorizing 20 crimes on the basis of similarity and coding their partner's responses, and then worked in…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Psychology, Research Skills, Multidimensional Scaling
Deng, Chi-Ping; Armstrong, Patrick Ian; Rounds, James – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2007
Holland's [Holland, J. L. (1959). A theory of occupational choice. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 6, 35-45; Holland, J. L. (1997). Making vocational choices: A theory of vocational personalities and work environments (3rd ed.). Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.] RIASEC types were initially developed using a restricted range…
Descriptors: Reputation, Career Choice, Multidimensional Scaling, Labor Market
