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Matthew J. Mayhew; Christa E. Winkler – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
Higher education professionals often are tasked with providing evidence to stakeholders that programs, services, and practices implemented on their campuses contribute to student success. Furthermore, in the absence of a solid base of evidence related to effective practices, higher education researchers and practitioners are left questioning what…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Program Evaluation
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Arzumanyan, George; Halcoussis, Dennis; Phillips, G. Michael – American Journal of Business Education, 2015
This paper presents the Agresti & Coull "Adjusted Wald" method for computing confidence intervals and margins of error for common proportion estimates. The presented method is easily implementable by business students and practitioners and provides more accurate estimates of proportions particularly in extreme samples and small…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Error of Measurement, Error Patterns, Intervals
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Reeves, Todd D.; Stich, Amy E. – Innovative Higher Education, 2011
In response to both problematic and extant gaps in Bachelor's degree completion rates, this mixed methods study investigated whether a theoretically based undergraduate course intervention measurably contributed to participants' competence as self-regulated learners. Respective quantitative and qualitative analyses of data collected from two…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, Bachelors Degrees, Training
Liu, Qin – Association for Institutional Research, 2012
This discussion constructs a survey data quality strategy for institutional researchers in higher education in light of total survey error theory. It starts with describing the characteristics of institutional research and identifying the gaps in literature regarding survey data quality issues in institutional research and then introduces the…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Higher Education, Quality Control, Researchers
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Guastella, Ivan; Fazio, Claudio; Sperandeo-Mineo, Rosa Maria – European Journal of Physics, 2012
A procedure modelling ideal classical and quantum gases is discussed. The proposed approach is mainly based on the idea that modelling and algorithm analysis can provide a deeper understanding of particularly complex physical systems. Appropriate representations and physical models able to mimic possible pseudo-mechanisms of functioning and having…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Quantum Mechanics, Science Education, Science Instruction
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Gray, Jennifer – Communication Teacher, 2010
Courses: Beginning research methods and statistics courses, as well as advanced communication courses that require reading research articles and completing research projects involving statistics. Objective: Students will understand the difference between significant and nonsignificant statistical results based on p-value.
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Statistics, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study
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DeSutter, T.; Viall, E.; Rijal, I.; Murdoff, M.; Guy, A.; Pang, X.; Koltes, S.; Luciano, R.; Bai, X.; Zitnick, K.; Wang, S.; Podrebarac, F.; Casey, F.; Hopkins, D. – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2010
A field-based, soil methods, and instrumentation course was developed to expose graduate students to numerous strategies for measuring soil parameters. Given the northern latitude of North Dakota State University and the rapid onset of winter, this course met once per week for the first 8 weeks of the fall semester and centered on the field as a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Projects, Scientific Methodology, Experiential Learning
Commonwealth of Learning, 2010
The Commonwealth of Learning Review and Improvement Model (COL RIM) was developed by the Commonwealth of Learning in response to two key drivers: (1) Increased global emphasis on the quality of higher education; and (2) Rising concern about the high cost and uncertain benefits of conventional approaches to external quality assurance. Any…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Models, Costs
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Snyder, Thomas D.; Dillow, Sally A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
The 2012 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 48th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The "Digest" has been issued annually except for combined editions for the years 1977-78, 1983-84, and 1985-86. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field…
Descriptors: School Statistics, Definitions, Tables (Data), Longitudinal Studies
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Canaes, Larissa S.; Brancalion, Marcel L.; Rossi, Adriana V.; Rath, Susanne – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
A classroom exercise for undergraduate and beginning graduate students that takes about one class period is proposed and discussed. It is an easy, interesting exercise that demonstrates important aspects of sampling techniques (sample amount, particle size, and the representativeness of the sample in relation to the bulk material). The exercise…
Descriptors: College Students, Statistical Data, Sampling, Evaluation
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Snyder, Thomas D.; Dillow, Sally A. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
The 2011 edition of the "Digest of Education Statistics" is the 47th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. The "Digest" has been issued annually except for combined editions for the years 1977-78, 1983-84, and 1985-86. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Error Patterns
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Moen, David H.; Powell, John E. – American Journal of Business Education, 2008
Using Microsoft® Excel, several interactive, computerized learning modules are developed to illustrate the Central Limit Theorem's appropriateness for comparing the difference between the means of any two populations. These modules are used in the classroom to enhance the comprehension of this theorem as well as the concepts that provide the…
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Computer Simulation, Classroom Techniques, Concept Teaching
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Birnbaum, Robert; And Others – Review of Higher Education, 1989
The aims and methods of the National Center for Postsecondary Governance and Finance research team that has been studying institutional leadership are described. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Presidents, Higher Education, Interviews, Leadership
Micceri, Ted; Takalkar, Pradnya; Waugh, Gordon – 1995
This paper is designed to identify effective methods and to lay out steps that can be used in a customer feedback survey process. In order for the results of any customer survey to stimulate useful changes in an organization, it is essential that the support of key players be present from the beginning. Developing a customer feedback process is a…
Descriptors: Feedback, Higher Education, Organizational Change, Research Methodology
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Luftig, Jeffrey T. – Journal of Epsilon Pi Tau, 1982
Students at the University of Northern Iowa were provided with a meaningful experience in quality assurance through a term project resulting from a problem submitted by a local manufacturing plant. Students were given the responsibility of developing a quality control and inspection system that was actually installed in the plant. (SK)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Higher Education, Industrial Education, Industry
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