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Liu, Jinming; Huang, Ping – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
Student academic burden exists to varying degrees throughout the world. To reach a comprehensive and unbiased understanding of the roles of academic burden, this paper explores academic burden from different viewpoints and summarizes existing assessment indexes for it. Factors correlated with student academic burden are examined and detailed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Development, Role, Correlation
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Pardos, Zachary A. – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2015
In Miyamoto et al. (2015, this issue) the authors looked to substantiate the presence of the spacing effect, referenced from the psychology literature, in several MOOCs. Their secondary analyses constituted a robust, empirical finding on the correspondence between session distribution and certification but with only a coarse, analogous…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Glorieux, Ignace; Minnen, Joeri; van Tienoven, Theun Pieter – Social Indicators Research, 2011
During the last decade more and more time-use data were gathered on a household level in stead of on an individual level. The time-use information of all members of the household provides much more insight in research fields that until now largely used data gathered at the individual level. One of these research fields is the study of quality of…
Descriptors: Marital Satisfaction, Females, Quality of Life, Labor Market
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Patulny, Roger – Social Indicators Research, 2011
Social trust is an important phenomenon, but the influence of important time-based measures upon trust has not been examined. Such measures include social contact and anti-social activity, such as television watching, which allows for the co-presence of other people. This paper reports on associations between trust and weighted means of co-present…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Trust (Psychology), Correlation, Foreign Countries
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Lochstet, Gwenn; Lehman, Donna H. – College & Research Libraries, 1999
Describes a correlation method for calculating reference statistics using weekly door counts that was tested at the University of South Carolina while studying a sampling technique for collecting reference statistics. Results indicate this method may offer libraries an accurate and less time-consuming procedure for keeping reference statistics.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Correlation, Higher Education, Library Research
Smith, Dora V. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
This manuscript on instruction in English shows the changes that have come over this subject during the past 40 years particularly, describes the condition in which it now is, and makes suggestions for further study. It finds a good deal of uncertainty in the matter of formal study of grammar. Emphasis varies. Some courses of study enumerate 45…
Descriptors: English Instruction, National Surveys, Secondary Education, Educational Change
Jacobson, Linda – Education Week, 2005
Access to reliable technology. Help from classroom aides. Out-of-classroom duties. Planning time with colleagues. Administrator accessibility. All those working conditions and more play a vital part in whether good teachers feel sufficiently satisfied to stay in their schools. Now, policymakers are beginning to gather evidence on just how much…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Conditions, Work Environment, Correlation