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Andrea B. Burridge; Lyle McKinney; Gerald V. Bourdeau; Mimi M. Lee; Yolanda M. Barnes – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Establishing early academic momentum via credit accumulation is strongly associated with community college student success. Using data from one of the nation's largest and most racially diverse community college systems, our quasi-experimental study examined how different first-semester credit loads influenced persistence. For part-time students…
Descriptors: Part Time Students, Community College Students, College Credits, Student Diversity
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Fan Zhang; Heather Erwin; Aaron Beighle – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: This study offers a comprehensive review of academic performance measurement instruments in physical activity and education settings, aiming to provide a comprehensive list of tools used for measuring academic performance in relation to variables associated with physical activity. Methods: Academic performance outcomes, including…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Physical Activities, Measurement Techniques, Thinking Skills
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Serrano, Raquel – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
The purpose of this state-of-the-art review is to provide a general overview of recent research on time distribution and second language (L2) learning with special implications for classroom settings. Several studies have been performed to examine how to best distribute the hours of L2 practice to maximize learning by comparing conditions that…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Research, Linguistic Input
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Ferraro, F. Richard – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
A total of 32 studies comprising 238 simple reaction time and choice reaction time conditions were examined in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (n?=?964) and controls (n?=?1032). A Brinley plot/multiple regression analysis was performed on mean reaction times, regressing autism spectrum disorder performance onto the control performance as…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Reaction Time, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Stephanie M. Lezotte – William & Mary Educational Review, 2020
Attacks on education, both physical and symbolic in nature, have various motives and consequences, and thus attempts at comparison can be challenging. This article is a descriptive comparative analysis of political attacks on higher education, defined for this purpose as attacks supported, ignored, or perpetuated by political powers. The units of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Political Power, Higher Education
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van der Gijp, A.; Ravesloot, C. J.; Jarodzka, H.; van der Schaaf, M. F.; van der Schaaf, I. C.; van Schaik, J. P.; ten Cate, Th. J. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Eye tracking research has been conducted for decades to gain understanding of visual diagnosis such as in radiology. For educational purposes, it is important to identify visual search patterns that are related to high perceptual performance and to identify effective teaching strategies. This review of eye-tracking literature in the radiology…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Clinical Diagnosis, Radiology, Visual Perception
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Levay, Paul; Ainsworth, Nicola; Kettle, Rachel; Morgan, Antony – Research Synthesis Methods, 2016
Aim: To examine how effectively forwards citation searching with Web of Science (WOS) or Google Scholar (GS) identified evidence to support public health guidance published by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Method: Forwards citation searching was performed using GS on a base set of 46 publications and replicated using WOS.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Public Health, Publications, Comparative Analysis
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Jones, Samuel David; Brandt, Silke – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Despite the apparent primacy of syntactic deficits, children with developmental language disorder (DLD) often also evidence lexical impairments. In particular, it has been argued that this population have difficulty forming lexical representations that are detailed enough to support effective spoken word processing. In order to better…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Meta Analysis, Effect Size, Syntax
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Blau, Gary; Mittal, Neha; Schirmer, Michael; Ozkan, Bora – Journal of Education for Business, 2017
Online education continues to grow at business schools. The authors compared undergraduate business student perceptions across three different classroom learning delivery environments: online, hybrid, and face to face. Based on the survey responses using two independent samples, the authors' analyses found that students who preferred online…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Business Administration Education
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Poncy, Brian C.; Solomon, Benjamin; Duhon, Gary; Skinner, Christopher; Moore, Kathryn; Simons, Sean – School Psychology Review, 2015
We aggregated and analyzed single-case research targeting math-fact fluency to investigate whether learning (behavior change) data were sufficient to summarize and compare intervention outcomes or if learning rate (learning/cumulative instructional time) data would provide divergent effect size (ES) results. We also extracted the curricular scope…
Descriptors: Intervention, Selection, Learning, Educational Research
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Nakanishi, Takayuki – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2015
The purposes of this study were to investigate the overall effectiveness of extensive reading, whether learners' age impacts learning, and whether the length of time second language learners engage in extensive reading influences test scores. The author conducted a meta-analysis to answer research questions and to identify future research…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading Research, Second Language Learning, Reading Achievement
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Kidron, Yael; Lindsay, Jim – Regional Educational Laboratory Appalachia, 2014
REL Appalachia conducted a systematic review of the research evidence on the effects of increased learning time. After screening more than 7,000 studies, REL Appalachia identified 30 that met the most rigorous standards for research. A review of those 30 studies found that increased learning time does not always produce positive results. However,…
Descriptors: Time Factors (Learning), Time on Task, Meta Analysis, Standards
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Woods-McConney, Amanda; Oliver, Mary C.; McConney, Andrew; Maor, Dorit; Schibeci, Renato – Research in Science Education, 2013
Previous research has underlined the importance of school students' engagement in science (including students' attitudes, interests and self beliefs). Engagement in science is important as a correlate of scientific literacy and attainment, and as an educational outcome in its own right. Students positively engaged with science are more likely to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Regression (Statistics), Models
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Teuscher, Ursina; Mitchell, Suzanne H. – Psychological Record, 2011
In this article, we examine the relation between delay discounting and future time perspective by reviewing how these concepts have been measured and quantified in order to assess their conceptual similarities. The extent to which the different measures are empirically related is reviewed by describing studies that have assessed both constructs…
Descriptors: Time Perspective, Delay of Gratification, Measures (Individuals), Psychological Studies
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Brass, Jory; Burns, Leslie David – Research in the Teaching of English, 2011
This study identified historical continuities and discontinuities across a century of secondary research published in "English Journal" (1912-1966) and "Research in the Teaching of English" (1967-2011). It highlights considerable methodological continuity across six decades of "English Journal" and some shifts in research emphases that tended to…
Descriptors: Literacy, Educational Research, Academic Discourse, Research Methodology
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