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Xia, Jianhong; Fielder, John; Siragusa, Lou – Issues in Educational Research, 2013
This paper documents the initial phase of a research project to improve peer interaction in a discussion forum for a Spatial Sciences class (unit) at Curtin University. A number of strategies were implemented to redress the low levels of online participation prevailing for a number of years. Three research questions were formulated to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Interaction, Computer Mediated Communication, Statistical Data, Space Sciences
Watson, Jane; Kelly, Ben; Izard, John – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2006
This study uses Partial Credit Rasch analysis to study a complex data set of student responses to survey items relating to chance and data. The items were administered in the classroom and collected from 1993 to 2003 in the Australian state of Tasmania. Data were collected from a total of 5514 individual students across Grades 3 to 11 over the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Mathematics Curriculum