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Costa, Stella F.; Diniz, Michael M. – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
The large rates of students' failure is a very frequent problem in undergraduate courses, being even more evident in exact sciences. Pointing out the reasons of such problem is a paramount research topic, though not an easy task. An alternative is to use Educational Data Mining techniques (EDM), which enables one to convert data from educational…
Descriptors: Prediction, Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Education, Models
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Ricketts, Jessie; Bishop, Dorothy V. M.; Pimperton, Hannah; Nation, Kate – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
This study explores how children learn the meaning (semantics) and spelling patterns (orthography) of novel words encountered in story context. English-speaking children (N = 88) aged 7 to 8 years read 8 stories and each story contained 1 novel word repeated 4 times. Semantic cues were provided by the story context such that children could infer…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Children, Semantics, Spelling