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Direct linkO'Hara, Michael E. – Journal of Economic Education, 2014
Although the concept of the sampling distribution is at the core of much of what we do in econometrics, it is a concept that is often difficult for students to grasp. The thought process behind bootstrapping provides a way for students to conceptualize the sampling distribution in a way that is intuitive and visual. However, teaching students to…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Economics, Sampling, Statistical Inference
Download full textBotha, Jo-Anne; Coetzee, Mariette – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between self-directedness (as measured by the Adult Learner Self-Directedness Scale) and biographical factors such as age, race, and gender of adult learners enrolled at a South African open distance learning (ODL) higher education institution. Correlational and inferential statistical analyses were used. A…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Open Universities
Rosmaniar, Widhyanti; Marzuki, Shahril Charil bin Hj. – Higher Education Studies, 2016
The purpose of this study is to look closely at how aspects of instructional leadership, and organizational learning affect the quality of madrasah in improving the quality of graduate the state madrasah aliyah. The experiment was conducted using a quantitative approach with descriptive and inferential methods, in inferential methods used…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Workplace Learning, Organizational Development
Zobac, Stephanie; Spears, Julia; Barker, Gregory – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2014
This article presents a method for addressing the self-selection bias of students who participate in learning communities (LCs). More specifically, this research utilizes equivalent comparison groups based on selected incoming characteristics of students, known as bootstraps, to account for self-selection bias. To address the differences in…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Year Seminars, Student Participation, Communities of Practice
Blackburn, Greg – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2015
The study investigates (1) the effectiveness of using eLearning-embedded stories and pictures in order to improve learning outcomes for students and (2) how universities can adopt innovative approaches to the creation of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) resources and embed them in educational technology for teaching domain-specific content, such as…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, College Freshmen
Karabatsos, George; Walker, Stephen G. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
Karabatsos and Walker (2011) introduced a new Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) regression model. Through analyses of real and simulated data, they showed that the BNP regression model outperforms other parametric and nonparametric regression models of common use, in terms of predictive accuracy of the outcome (dependent) variable. The other,…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Regression (Statistics), Nonparametric Statistics, Statistical Inference
