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Kern, Ben D.; Graber, Kim C. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2017
Program satisfaction, self-efficacy to change, and willingness to change, are dispositions that influence physical education teacher change. The study purpose was to validate an instrument measuring program satisfaction, self-efficacy to change, and willingness to change relative to teachers' likelihood to change. A 15-item Teacher Change…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Test Validity, Questionnaires, Self Efficacy
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Lichtenberger, Eric; Witt, M. Allison; Blankenberger, Bob; Franklin, Doug – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
The use of dual credit has been expanding rapidly. Dual credit is a college course taken by a high school student for which both college and high school credit is given. Previous studies provided limited quantitative evidence that dual credit/dual enrollment is directly connected to positive student outcomes. In this study, predictive statistics…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Credits, Community Colleges, Statistical Analysis
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Regenwetter, Michel; Dana, Jason; Davis-Stober, Clintin P. – Psychological Review, 2011
Transitivity of preferences is a fundamental principle shared by most major contemporary rational, prescriptive, and descriptive models of decision making. To have transitive preferences, a person, group, or society that prefers choice option "x" to "y" and "y" to "z" must prefer "x" to…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Selection, Attitudes, Models
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Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Nisar, Hiren – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
School districts required under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) to provide supplemental educational services (SES) to students in schools that are not making adequate yearly progress rely heavily on the private sector to offer choice in services. If the market does not drive out ineffective providers, students may not gain through SES participation.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Indicators, Federal Programs
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Shapiro, Joel; Bray, Christopher – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2011
This article describes a model that can be used to analyze student enrollment data and can give insights for improving retention of part-time students and refining institutional budgeting and planning efforts. Adult higher-education programs are often challenged in that part-time students take courses less reliably than full-time students. For…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Students, Part Time Students, Enrollment Trends