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John J. Siegfried – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
Undergraduate economics degrees awarded by U.S. colleges and universities increased almost 12 percent from 2013 through 2015, then stabilized at a little above the 2015 level until 2018, after which they began an accelerating decline over the past five years to end back at a little below 2015 levels.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Bachelors Degrees, Economics Education, Statistical Data
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Hott, Brittany L.; Flores, Margaret M.; Morano, Stephanie; Randolph, Kathleen M.; Peltier, Corey – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2023
This article, part of the "Learning Disability Quarterly" special series dedicated to single-case research design (SCRD), summarizes the review process and outlines how to provide high-quality SCRD study manuscript reviews. We offer recommendations for the entirety of the review process, including accepting the role of reviewer,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Standards, Evidence, Reliability
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Tyndorf, Darryl M., Jr.; Glass, Chris R. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Developing countries have significantly expanded efforts to import more flexible short-cycle institutions based on the United States community college model. The U.S. community college model addresses human capital needs of the labor market in developing countries by increasing access to an affordable education. However, there is limited research…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Community Colleges, Developing Nations, Longitudinal Studies
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Fry, Jane; Ripp, Chantal – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2017
While some Canadian universities have a long history in the provision of data services, that was not the norm in Canada, especially in small universities and colleges. To maximize the use of data by students and researchers in academia, it was evident that increased education, resources, and tools were required to support those delivering data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, College Libraries, Librarians
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Khachatryan, Davit; Karst, Nathaniel – Journal of Statistics Education, 2017
With the ease and automation of data collection and plummeting storage costs, organizations are faced with massive amounts of data that present two pressing challenges: technical analysis of the data themselves and communication of the analytics process and its products. Although a plethora of academic and practitioner literature have focused on…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Statistics, Business Schools, College Students
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Espelage, Dorothy – AERA Open, 2015
School violence and bullying are two public health concerns with consequences for youth in and out of school, for families, students, and community members. In this article, a social-ecological framework is briefly described as a way to understand bullying and school violence; then the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) longitudinal…
Descriptors: Violence, Bullying, Educational Research, Statistical Data
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Feldman, Bernard J. – Physics Teacher, 2014
Given that transportation is an essential topic in any Physics and Society or Energy course, it is necessary to have useful statistics on transportation in order to have a reasoned discussion on this topic. And a major component of the transportation picture is the automobile. This paper presents updated transportation statistics for American…
Descriptors: Statistics, Auto Mechanics, Motor Vehicles, Transportation
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Kangas, Jari; Rantanen, Elisa; Kettunen, Lauri – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
Most freshmen enter universities with high expectations and with good motivation, but too many are driven into performing instead of true learning. The issues are not only related to the challenge of comprehending the substance, social and other factors have an impact as well. All these multifaceted needs should be accounted for to facilitate…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Transitional Programs, Statistical Data, Longitudinal Studies
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McNeish, Daniel; Harring, Jeffrey R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
To date, small sample problems with latent growth models (LGMs) have not received the amount of attention in the literature as related mixed-effect models (MEMs). Although many models can be interchangeably framed as a LGM or a MEM, LGMs uniquely provide criteria to assess global data-model fit. However, previous studies have demonstrated poor…
Descriptors: Growth Models, Goodness of Fit, Error Correction, Sampling
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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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Stock, Wendy A.; Siegfried, John J. – Journal of Economic Education, 2014
In this article, the authors summarize their 15 years of research on graduate education in economics in the United States. They examine all stages of the process, from the undergraduate origins of eventual economics PhDs to their attrition and time-to-degree outcomes. For PhD completers, the authors examine job market outcomes, research…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Economics, Educational Research, Graduate Study
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Jin, Jang C. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This study examines the feasibility of publication imports that may significantly change school rankings in higher education. A small offshore branch campus is used as a case study. The results show that a higher ranking of the offshore campus is largely due to visiting faculties from its parent university in the United States. This implies that…
Descriptors: Publications, Reputation, Universities, Higher Education
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Horstschräer, Julia; Sprietsma, Maresa – Education Economics, 2015
We estimate the short-term effects of the introduction of the Bachelor degree system in Germany, a change in degree regulations such that students need less time to earn a first degree, on college enrollment and dropout rates. We use variation in the timing of the reform at the university department level to identify the effects of the reform…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bachelors Degrees, Enrollment, Dropout Rate
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Macrander, Ashley – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2017
Literature on global international student mobility (ISM) highlights the uneven nature of student flows--from the developing to the developed world--however, studies have yet to address whether this pattern is replicated within expanding regional networks. Utilizing social network analysis, UNESCO ISM data, and World Bank income classifications,…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Foreign Students, Student Mobility
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Wilson-Doenges, Georjeanna – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
This chapter will provide potential models for analyzing learning data through a discussion of screening data and then analyzing that data using appropriate statistical techniques.
Descriptors: Models, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Data, Academic Achievement
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