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Eleni Giannakopoulou – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2023
Official communications and media news in Greece about the COVID-19 pandemic very often involve a multitude of numerical concepts and mathematical relationships, which are presented in different forms and in various contexts. This paper reports selected findings of a survey among adults, which had two aims. First, to investigate their subjective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Graphs, COVID-19
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MacFeely, Steve; Campos, Pedro; Helenius, Reija – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
Statistical literacy is complex and multifaceted. In every country, education and numeracy are a function of a multitude of factors including culture, history, and societal norms. Nevertheless, since the launch of the International Statistical Poster Competition (ISLP) in 1994, a number of patterns have emerged to suggest there are some common or…
Descriptors: Competition, Statistics, Visual Aids, Technology Uses in Education
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Lem, Stephanie; Baert, Kathy; Ceulemans, Eva; Onghena, Patrick; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – Educational Psychology, 2017
The ability to interpret graphs is highly important in modern society, but has proven to be a challenge for many people. In this paper, two teaching methods were used to remediate one specific misinterpretation: the area misinterpretation of box plots. First, we used refutational text to explicitly state and invalidate the area misinterpretation…
Descriptors: Graphs, Teaching Methods, Misconceptions, Statistical Data
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Shariati, Saeed; Armarego, Jocelyn; Sudweeks, Fay – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2017
Aim/Purpose: The research investigates the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on Iranian refugees' settlement in Australia. Background: The study identifies the issues of settlement, such as language, cultural and social differences. Methodology: The Multi-Sited Ethnography (MSE), which is a qualitative methodology, has…
Descriptors: Refugees, Land Settlement, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
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Hall, Laura J. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2015
Supporting special educators' sustained use of evidence-based practices (EBPs) is a priority for the field. In this study, the authors used multiple measures to evaluate the first graduated cohort from a university program 6 years after graduation with a master's degree with a specialization in autism, and at least 8 years working as…
Descriptors: Evidence, Communities of Practice, Sustainability, Special Education Teachers
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Groth, Randall E. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2014
Statistics courses for prospective teachers are being developed in response to recent K-12 curriculum recommendations. As these courses are developed, it is important to design accompanying assessments. This manuscript describes a strategy for assessing aspects of statistical knowledge for teaching. The strategy involves analyzing and responding…
Descriptors: Statistics, Evaluation Methods, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Task Analysis
Liton, Hussain Ahmed – Online Submission, 2012
Saudi Ministry of education is highly concerned with the pursuit of excellence in effective EFL teaching-learning in the arena of education but it experiences tardy progress especially in college level. This is a common scenario in almost every stage of learning in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Behind this backdrop, this paper explores the new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Official Languages, Language Role
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Buhler, Amy G.; Ferree, Nita; Cataldo, Tara T.; Tennant, Michele R. – College & Research Libraries, 2010
Very little literature exists on the nature of external reporting lines and funding structures of academic special libraries. This study focuses on academic health sciences libraries. The authors analyze information gathered from statistics published by the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) from 1977 through 2007; an…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Special Libraries, Interviews, Financial Support
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Guillén-Nieto, Victoria; Vargas-Sierra, Chelo; Pardiño-Juan, Maria; Martinez-Barco, Patricio; Suárez-Cueto, Armando – International Journal of English Studies, 2008
Back in the 1990s Malcolm Coulthard announced the beginnings of an emerging discipline, "forensic linguistics", resulting from the interface of language, crime and the law. Today the courts are more than ever calling on language experts to help in certain types of cases, such as authorship identification, plagiarism, legal interpreting…
Descriptors: Crime, Applied Linguistics, Laws, Court Litigation
Obert, Beverly – Illinois Libraries, 1988
Describes steps taken to improve usage of a public library young adult collection: (1) a survey of students' reading interests and needs; (2) analysis of the collection; (3) comparison of survey results with the collection; and (4) selection of additional titles. An annotated bibliography, the questionnaire, and survey results are appended. (11…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Data Analysis, Library Collection Development
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Weisberg, D. Kelly – Journal of Legal Education, 1979
Reported is a survey undertaken to explore the recent progress and problems of women in the field of law school teaching. Focus is on distribution of women faculty among accredited law schools, professional rank, other academic positions, women deans or associate deans, and hiring and promotion problems. Some survey data are appended. (JMD)
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), College Faculty, Employment Problems, Females