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Ellis, Cath – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
Learning analytics is a relatively new field of inquiry and its precise meaning is both contested and fluid (Johnson, Smith, Willis, Levine & Haywood, 2011; LAK, n.d.). Ferguson (2012) suggests that the best working definition is that offered by the first Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) conference: "the measurement, collection,…
Descriptors: Data, Data Analysis, Students, Student Evaluation
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Jordan, Thomas E. – Social Indicators Research, 2011
This essay examines the stages of inquiry when we seek to formulate quality of life in an era before our own. There arises the question of the extent to which today's formulation of quality of life can be applied to an era far removed from our own. Implicitly, there is the nature of the time interval, T[subscript 1]...T[subscript n], and the…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Data, Data Analysis, Social Indicators
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Rose, L. Todd; Fischer, Kurt W. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
The focus article by Coburn and Turner (this issue) seeks to provide a comprehensive framework for understanding data use in the context of data-use interventions. This commentary focuses on what the authors see as a glaring omission in what is otherwise a valuable framework: the issue of "useful data." It is their contention that the usefulness…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Data, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation
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Chen, Guoqing; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992
Discusses the problem of data redundancy in a fuzzy relational data model and describes three existing frameworks of fuzzy data representation and redundancy treatment. A new treatment based on Zadeh's extension principle is proposed. (18 references) (MES)
Descriptors: Data, Data Analysis, Databases, Mathematical Models
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Stephens, Max – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 1998
Argues that students need to recognize the purpose for which data is gathered, classified, and arranged. Discusses insights into mathematics teaching and learning in a Japanese classroom. (CCM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Data, Data Analysis, Elementary Education
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Dolby, James L. – Information Processing and Management, 1984
Suggests structure based on two sets of principles for deriving meaning from data: Shannon's measure of entropy, which provides means of measuring amount of information in message; and Ranganathan's faceted classification scheme, which provides means of determining number of meaningful data. Syntax, meaning, and semantics of data are discussed.…
Descriptors: Classification, Communication (Thought Transfer), Data, Data Analysis
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Sobal, Jeff – Library Trends, 1982
Discusses secondary data analysis and reanalysis of machine-readable data as supplements to traditional teaching methods in the social sciences, highlighting types of secondary data, levels of instructional use, housing data in archives, housing codebooks in library stacks, and contributions of archivists and librarians to teaching. Seventeen…
Descriptors: Archives, Computer Oriented Programs, Continuing Education, Data
Creighton, Theodore B. – 2000
Data collection and analysis are frequently neglected by school leaders over the course of the decision-making process. All schools gather large amounts of information about students and teachers, but most data are used to satisfy administrative requirements rather than evaluate school improvement in a systematic fashion. Apprehension regarding…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Data, Data Analysis, Data Collection