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Covarrubias, Rebecca; Gallimore, Ronald; Okagaki, Lynn – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2018
At many higher education institutions, admissions decisions often rely on standardized test scores and high school grades; yet, they are less reliable predictors for applicants falling slightly below cutoff points, what we call borderline applicants. Since borderline applicants are often from underrepresented backgrounds and diverted to 2-year…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Applicants, Transitional Programs, Disproportionate Representation
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Dennis, Matt; Masthoff, Judith; Mellish, Chris – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2016
As feedback is an important part of learning and motivation, we investigate how to adapt the feedback of a conversational agent to learner personality (as well as to learner performance, as we expect an interaction effect between personality and performance on feedback). We investigate two aspects of feedback. Firstly, we investigate whether the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Literary Styles
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Connors-Kellgren, Alice; Parker, Caroline E.; Blustein, David L.; Barnett, Mike – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2016
For over a decade, the National Science Foundation's Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program has funded researchers and educators to build an understanding of best practices, contexts, and processes contributing to K-12 students' motivation and participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Active Learning, Student Projects, Educational Innovation
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Kickmeier-Rust, Michael D.; Mattheiss, Elke; Steiner, Christina; Albert, Dietrich – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2011
One of the trump cards of digital educational games is their enormous intrinsic motivational potential. Although learning game design is often understood on a one-fitsall level, the actual motivational strength of an educational game strongly depends on the individual learners, their very specific goals, preferences, abilities, strength and…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Psychoeducational Methods, Learning Motivation
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Kombartzky, Uwe; Ploetzner, Rolf; Schlag, Sabine; Metz, Berthold – Learning and Instruction, 2010
Based on current theories of multimedia learning, we propose a strategy for learning from animations. Two different experimental studies were conducted in order to evaluate the strategy. In the first study, 22 sixth graders learned from an animation without the strategy while 21 students were encouraged to make use of the proposed strategy during…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Zhao, Xin – English Language Teaching, 2009
If the purpose of language learning is communication, then improving students' reading comprehension competence becomes an overall goal in language teaching. This paper examines the online resources of reading comprehension tests with non-English major college students, and tackles the problem with the teaching method of integrating web-based…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Schulte, Ann C.; Easton, Julia E.; Parker, Justin – School Psychology Review, 2009
Documenting treatment integrity is an important issue in research and practice in any discipline concerned with prevention and intervention. However, consensus concerning the dimensions of treatment integrity and how they should be measured has yet to emerge. Advances from three areas in which significant treatment integrity work has taken…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, Outcomes of Treatment, School Psychology
Powers, Donald E.; Alderman, Donald L. – Evaluation Quarterly, 1979
Practical methods for implementing true experimental designs in evaluation settings in which such designs are rarely used are presented. Particular attention is paid to educational settings. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Educational Experiments, Evaluation Methods, Field Studies
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Tallmadge, G. Kasten – Journal of Career Education, 1979
Discusses the need for awareness of real and potential problems in educational evaluation approaches, kinds of problems there are with true experimental designs and with quasi-experimental designs, and the criteria applied by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel to its review of educational programs. (MF)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Career Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Experiments
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Matson, Eric; DeLoach, Scott; Pauly, Robyn – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2004
The "Robot Roadshow Program" is designed to increase the interest of elementary school children in technical disciplines, specifically math and science. The program focuses on children from schools categorized as rural or underserved, which often have limited access to advanced technical resources. We developed the program using robots…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Rural Schools