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Rossman, Allan; Kaplan, Danny – Journal of Statistics Education, 2017
Danny Kaplan is DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Macalester College. He received Macalester's Excellence in teaching Award in 2006 and the CAUSE/USCOTS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. This interview took place via email on March 4-June 17, 2017. Topics covered in the interview include: (1) the current state of…
Descriptors: Interviews, Introductory Courses, Statistics, Statistical Analysis
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Rodricks, Dirk J. – Research in Drama Education, 2018
Drawing from applied performance practice research that examined the experiences of eight queer Desi/South Asian young adults in Toronto, this paper specifically uses micro-encounters to extend the idea that creative methods offer openings that facilitate different kinds of access for different participants. This paper also challenges the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Countries, Asians, Homosexuality
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Cheung, Yannes Tsz-Yan; Chow, Cheuk-Fai; So, Winnie Wing-Mui – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2018
To educate a sustainable future, a train-the-trainer (TTT) approach was adopted to train student teachers (STs) from a teacher education institute to be green ambassadors (GAs) in an environmental education (EE) programme with the aim of promoting plastic waste recycling among primary school pupils. The design of the TTT course for the GAs not…
Descriptors: Recycling, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment), Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Anupam, Aditya; Gupta, Ridhima; Naeemi, Azad; JafariNaimi, Nassim – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2018
Quantum mechanics (QMs) is a foundational subject in many science and engineering fields. It is difficult to teach, however, as it requires a fundamental revision of the assumptions and laws of classical physics and probability. Furthermore, introductory QM courses and texts predominantly focus on the mathematical formulations of the subject and…
Descriptors: Quantum Mechanics, Experiential Learning, Introductory Courses, Educational Games
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Fitzhugh, Eugene C. – American Journal of Health Education, 2015
Regular physical activity (PA) is an important concept to measure in health education research. The health education researcher might need to measure physical activity because it is the primary measure of interest, or PA might be a confounding measure that needs to be controlled for in statistical analysis. The purpose of this commentary is to…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Health Behavior, Physical Activity Level, Interviews
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Shelton, Rachel C.; Dunston, Sheba King; Leoce, Nicole; Jandorf, Lina; Thompson, Hayley S.; Erwin, Deborah O. – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Lay Health Advisor (LHA) programs hold tremendous promise for reducing health disparities and addressing social determinants of health in medically underserved communities, including African American populations. Very little is understood about the capacity of LHAs in these roles and the broader contributions they make to their communities. This…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Social Differences, Cancer
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Rossman, Allan; Nolan, Deborah – Journal of Statistics Education, 2015
Deborah Nolan is Professor of Statistics and holds the Zaffaroni Family Chair in Undergraduate Education at the University of California-Berkeley, where she has also served as Associate Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. This interview…
Descriptors: Statistics, Interviews, Mathematics Education, Undergraduate Study
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Hursh, David – Policy Futures in Education, 2017
In this interview with David Hursh, Bob Lingard comments on his current and/or recently completed research projects in respect to new modes of global governance in schooling and the complementarity between international large scale assessments and national testing. He also looks at a project that, in conjunction with school leaders, teachers,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Interviews, Commercialization, Foreign Countries
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Koçdar, Serpil; Karadag, Nejdet; Sahin, Murat Dogan – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
This is a descriptive study which intends to determine whether the difficulty and discrimination indices of the multiple-choice questions show differences according to cognitive levels of the Bloom's Taxonomy, which are used in the exams of the courses in a business administration bachelor's degree program offered through open and distance…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Difficulty Level, Distance Education, Open Education
Aceves, Aurelia De La Rosa; Greenberg, David M.; Schell, Sarah – MDRC, 2016
This brief is the third in a series documenting the implementation of an economic mobility initiative supported by New York City's Change Capital Fund (CCF). CCF is a consortium of New York City donors formed to invest in local nonprofits that undertake data-driven antipoverty strategies integrating housing, education, and employment services. CCF…
Descriptors: Community Services, Poverty Programs, Nonprofit Organizations, Integrated Activities
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Ferrer, Erica; Pérez, Yuddy – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2017
Program evaluation is a process of carefully collecting information in order to make informed decisions to strengthen specific components of a given program. The type of evaluation an institution decides to undertake depends on the purpose as well as on the information the institution wants to find out about its program. Self-evaluation represents…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Soto, Amanda C.; Taylor, Melinda A. – Pearson Education, Inc., 2013
Learning progressions represent a set of skills or pieces of knowledge ordered sequentially from least to most complex. This sequence can guide instruction as well as assessment content. This paper describes several useful methods for validating learning progressions including validating the relationship between the progression and student…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Sequential Learning, Validity, Mastery Learning
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Scherp, Hans-Ake – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2013
The aim of the article is to show how substantial qualitative material consisting of graphic cognitive maps can be analysed by using digital CmapTools, Excel and SPSS. Evidence is provided of how qualitative and quantitative methods can be combined in educational research by transforming qualitative data into quantitative data to facilitate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Mapping, Urban Environment, Interviews
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Doyle, Eva I.; Caro, Carla M.; Lysoby, Linda; Auld, M. Elaine; Smith, Becky J.; Muenzen, Patricia M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
The National Health Educator Job Analysis 2010 was conducted to update the competencies model for entry- and advanced-level health educators. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used. Structured interviews, focus groups, and a modified Delphi technique were implemented to engage 59 health educators from diverse work settings and experience…
Descriptors: Health Education, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Teacher Competencies
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Du, Hang – Modern Language Journal, 2013
This article is part of a longitudinal study of American college students studying Mandarin in China. Its main data are drawn from monthly speaking events (four sessions with each student) conducted in Chinese with each of 29 participants in a study-abroad program in China. The study yielded these results: (a) Students made significant progress in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Longitudinal Studies, College Students
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