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Kosei Fukuda – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2024
In statistics classes, the central limit theorem has been demonstrated using simulation-based illustrations. Known population distributions such as a uniform or exponential distribution are often used to consider the behavior of the sample mean in simulated samples. Unlike such simulations, a number of real-data-based simulations are here…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business, Business Administration Education, Sample Size
Lisa J. Elliott; Joan Middendorf – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Teaching and learning undergraduate statistics has been a most challenging task for undergraduate psychology majors (Salkind, 2017). A seasoned statistics instructor consulted with a seasoned instructional designer on a method to improve a particularly demanding course using a performance improvement approach to address learning difficulties she…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Psychological Studies, Statistics Education, Teaching Methods
Burrus, Robert T.; Jones, Adam T.; Schuhmann, Peter W. – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
University students' latent attitudes toward capitalism were quantified and used to predict self-reported cheating behaviors. Results suggest that the relationship between student academic dishonesty and attitudes toward capitalism are complex. Students indicating a strong degree of risk aversion are less likely to report cheating behaviors.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Social Systems, Prediction
Bedel, Emine Ferda – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
This study is designed to explore academic motivation, academic self-efficacy and attitudes toward teaching in pre-service early childhood education teachers and to investigate the relationships among those variables. Data were gathered through questionnaires administered to 251 pre-service early childhood education teachers. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Motivation, Self Efficacy
Soria, Krista M.; Stubblefield, Robin – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
Strengths-based approaches are flourishing across hundreds of higher education institutions as student affairs practitioners and educators seek to leverage students' natural talents so they can reach "previously unattained levels of personal excellence" (Lopez & Louis, 2009, p. 2). Even amid the growth of strengths-based approaches…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Persistence, Correlation, Online Surveys
Barakat, Asia; Othman, Afaf – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The present study aims to identify the relationship between the five-factor model of personality and its relationship to cognitive style (rush and prudence) and academic achievement among a sample of students. The study is based on descriptive approach for studying the relationship between the variables of the study, results and analysis. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style, Academic Achievement, Correlation
Al Zou'bi, Abdallah S.; Al-Onizat, Sabah – International Education Studies, 2015
This study aimed to identify the effectiveness of using information technology and communications' means in the academic education from the perspective of Al-Balqa Applied University's students. And to achieve this goal, the researchers prepared and developed a questionnaire as a tool of the study including 26 items. The population of the study,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Computer Attitudes
Tang, Sylvia Y. F.; Wong, Angel K. Y.; Cheng, May M. H. – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2015
Education systems around the world need to recruit highly motivated individuals to become teachers and prepare professionally competent teacher education graduates to take up these broadened and deepened roles and responsibilities with a deep and lasting engagement to the profession. This article reports on a mixed-methods study that examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Mixed Methods Research, Teacher Competencies
Mattern, Krista D.; Marini, Jessica P.; Shaw, Emily J. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2015
Throughout the college retention literature, there is a recurring theme that students leave college for a variety of reasons making retention a difficult phenomenon to model. In the current study, cluster analysis techniques were employed to investigate whether multiple empirically based profiles of nonreturning students existed to more fully…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Multivariate Analysis, Student Characteristics
Nadelson, Louis S.; Bennett, Darcie; Gwilliam, Ezra; Howlett, Catherine; Oswalt, Steve; Sand, Jaime – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
The evolving landscape of instructional technology is influenced by access to a wide range of technology tools that can be accessed to enhance teaching and learning. Technological tools such as smart phones, apps, tablets, social media, and YouTube exemplify the kinds of resources that are readily available for teaching and learning. Further, the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Preservice Teachers, Self Esteem
Weng, Cathy; Weng, Apollo; Tsai, Kevin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
The primary purpose of this study was to uncover determines of students' intention to adopt online teaching evaluation at the end of semester by proposing a research model based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). The second purpose was to investigate the efficacy of the theory for predicting such intention. Besides users' attitude and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Questionnaires, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
Beard, Jonathan; Marini, Jessica P. – College Board, 2015
The continued accumulation of validity evidence for the intended uses of educational assessment scores is critical to ensure that inferences made using the scores are sound. To that end, the College Board has continued to collect college outcome data to evaluate the relationship between SAT® scores and college success. This report provides updated…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Predictive Validity, Educational Assessment, Evidence
Soria, Krista M.; Stubblefield, Robin – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2014
As strengths-based approaches continue to gain steady momentum in colleges and universities, a distinct need for scholarship on the benefits of strengths-based practices has emerged. In fall 2011, all first-year students at a university in the Midwest were invited to discover their strengths by taking the Clifton StrengthsFinder. The purpose of…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy
Elaldi, Senel – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This study aims to determine lifelong learning dispositions of English Language and Literature students in terms of gender, grade levels, and age variables. Descriptive research design was used. The study group consisted of 402 students studying English Language and Literature at Cumhuriyet University in Sivas, Turkey. Research data were collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Aghaz, Asal; Hashemi, Amin; Atashgah, Maryam S. Sharifi – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2015
Despite several studies having been conducted to examine organizational image from a business perspective, there has not been adequate research in the area of perceived image in nonprofit organizations such as universities. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the factors contributing to university image, from the postgraduate students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Universities, Reputation