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Michael C. Robbins; Zhuping Li – Field Methods, 2025
The Nolan Index (NI) is a normed, quantitative measure for comparing the degree of resemblance (similarity or dissimilarity) between free listings with an Excel program for calculating it. This article enhances that effort with the addition of an R program and additional applications. Free-list resemblance measures have been used to investigate…
Descriptors: Computation, Norm Referenced Tests, Comparative Analysis, Spreadsheets
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Urbanowski, Vincent – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2022
This article describes a modeling project the author did with his algebra, geometry, and applications students in grades 9, 10, and 11 as an enrichment and exploration of an extremely relevant real-world phenomenon and introduction to the adult profession of epidemiologist. With discussion and exploration, this project consumed two periods of 88…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Spreadsheets, Epidemiology
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Cherasaro, Trudy L.; Reale, Marianne L.; Haystead, Mark; Marzano, Robert J. – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2015
This toolkit, developed by Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Central in collaboration with York Public Schools in Nebraska, provides a process and tools to help teachers use data from their classroom assessments to evaluate promising practices. The toolkit provides teachers with guidance on how to deliberately apply and study one classroom…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Guidance, Teaching Methods, Best Practices
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Dewar, Jacqueline; Larson, Suzanne; Zachariah, Thomas – PRIMUS, 2011
We describe our approach to incorporating a civic engagement component into a quantitative literacy (QL) course and the resulting gains in student learning, confidence, and awareness of local civic issues. We revised the existing QL course by including semester-long group projects involving local community issues that students could investigate…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Algebra, Citizenship Education, Group Activities
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Saber, Jane Lee; Foster, Mary K. – Marketing Education Review, 2011
The marketing department of a large business school introduced a new undergraduate course, marketing metrics and analysis. The main materials for this course consisted of a series of online spreadsheets with embedded text and practice problems, a 32-page online metrics primer that included assurance of learning questions and a sample examination…
Descriptors: Marketing, Business Education, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Study
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Casewell, I. E. – Information Services and Use, 1992
Outlines the current status of satellite-delivered narrowcasting services in Europe; identifies potential applications, including electronic publishing and corporate data communications; compares various transmission technologies; and explores economic issues with the aid of a spreadsheet model for the cases of a facsimile broadcast and a weather…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Bernstein, Allison – Library Talk, 1999
Describes projects in a fifth grade classroom that used data collection and graph making activities as part of a collaborative project between the teacher and the library media specialist. Discusses the use of Excel spreadsheets, comparing the effectiveness of different types of graphs, and project planning. (LRW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Software