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Garraway, James – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Though the future cannot be accurately predicted, it is possible to envisage a number of probable developments which can promote thinking about the future and so promote a more informed stance about what should or should not be done. Studies in technology and society have claimed that the use of a type of forecasting using plausible but imaginary…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Prediction, Predictor Variables, Teacher Workshops
Obielumani, Obielumani Ifakachukwu – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
In spite of all the dialectics as to whether education is a social or investment good, there is no doubt that it is a universal good which man should strive to receive as a life long venture. Adequate investments in education facilitate the achievement of most other development goals and increase the probability that progress will be sustained.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Higher Education, Access to Education
Avella, John T.; Kebritchi, Mansureh; Nunn, Sandra G.; Kanai, Therese – Online Learning, 2016
Higher education for the 21st century continues to promote discoveries in the field through learning analytics (LA). The problem is that the rapid embrace of of LA diverts educators' attention from clearly identifying requirements and implications of using LA in higher education. LA is a promising emerging field, yet higher education stakeholders…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Iatarola, Patrice – Teachers College Record, 2016
This chapter summarizes a set of research studies that focus on high school course offerings, takings, and effects. Improving high school experiences and having students graduate from high school ready for college are national priorities under President Obama's Race to the Top initiative. Doing so by expanding access to advanced courses dates back…
Descriptors: Evidence, Advanced Courses, High Schools, Secondary School Curriculum
Yook, Eunkyong Lee – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2013
One of the most urgent issues facing institutions of higher learning in the United States today is the problem of college student retention. The purpose of this article is to provide a theoretically and empirically supported argument for stating that there is one potent force for retention of college students that has been as yet largely unmined:…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Predictor Variables, Information Centers
Boucher, Jean Leon – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2010
This paper presents a two part analysis of social justice programs (SJPs) at state universities in the United States of America (USA). Two main questions are addressed: firstly, in Part I, "What might it take to develop a social justice program at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)?" and secondly, in Part II, "Why do some universities have…
Descriptors: Social Justice, State Universities, College Programs, Institutional Characteristics
Justice, Laura M.; Mashburn, Andrew; Pence, Khara L.; Wiggins, Alice – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate child impacts following implementation of a comprehensive language curriculum, the Language-Focused Curriculum (LFC; Bunce, 1995), within their preschool classrooms. As part of this larger purpose, this study identified child-level predictors of expressive language outcomes for children…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Expressive Language, Preschool Children, English Curriculum
Gibson, Allen – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2010
Many studies have examined the reasons for students' satisfaction or dissatisfaction with their higher educational experience. However, no single paper reviews the major attributes of an educational program that are most commonly found to be significant predictors of student satisfaction. This paper reviews the major attributes that most influence…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Experience, Satisfaction, Higher Education
Creech, Leah Renee; Sweeder, Ryan D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2012
This study examined the historical performance of students at Michigan State University in 12 life sciences courses over 13 yr to find variables impacting student success. Hierarchical linear modeling predicted 25.0-62.8% of the variance in students' grades in the courses analyzed. The primary predictor of a student's course grade was his or her…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Majors (Students), Grade Point Average, Biochemistry
Crescenzi, Pilu; Malizia, Alessio; Verri, M. Cecilia; Diaz, Paloma; Aedo, Ignacio – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
In this paper we describe the results that we have obtained while integrating algorithm visualization (AV) movies (strongly tightened with the other teaching material), within a first-year undergraduate course on algorithms and data structures. Our experimental results seem to support the hypothesis that making these movies available significantly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Instructional Materials, Video Technology, Visualization
ACT, Inc., 2009
As part of its College Readiness System, ACT offers the PLAN[R] program as a way for tenth-grade students to review their progress toward college readiness while there is still time to make necessary interventions. PLAN contains four tests--English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science. These tests are designed to measure students' curriculum-related…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Correlation, Alignment (Education), Predictor Variables
Yeo, Seungsoo; Fearrington, Jamie; Christ, Theodore J. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2011
This study investigated slope bias on student background variables for both Curriculum Based Measurement of Oral Reading (CBM-R) and Curriculum Based Measurement Maze Reading (Maze). Benchmark scores from 1,738 students in Grades 3 through 8 were used to examine potential slope bias in CBM-R and Maze. Latent growth modeling was used to both…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Oral Reading, Special Education, Investigations
Brese, Falk, Ed.; Carstens, Ralph, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2009
To support and promote secondary analyses, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) is making the SITES 2006 international database and accompanying User Guide available to researchers, analysts, and public users. The database comprises national contexts and school- and teacher-level data from 23 education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Questionnaires, Information Technology, Educational Technology
Van Auken, Stuart; Chrysler, Earl; Wells, Ludmilla Gricenko; Simkin, Mark – Journal of Education for Business, 2011
The authors utilized a gap analysis approach to assess general IS knowledge and skill voids or overages in a specific program context. The authors asked alumni to reveal the emphasis that should have been given to 10 IS knowledge and skill areas and compared the results with the emphasis that was actually given. They proceed by relating the…
Descriptors: Program Attitudes, Information Systems, Alumni, Graduate Surveys
Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
In recent years, there has been heightened awareness of the importance of early childhood education and high school as intervention points in the educational lives of America's children. Less attention has been paid to the importance of the upper elementary grades and middle school and the role they must play in the preparation of students for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Intervention, Academic Achievement