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Mittelhaëuser, Marie-Anne; Béguin, Anton A.; Sijtsma, Klaas – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether simulated differential motivation between the stakes for operational tests and anchor items produces an invalid linking result if the Rasch model is used to link the operational tests. This was done for an external anchor design and a variation of a pretest design. The study also investigated…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Simulation, High Stakes Tests, Pretesting
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Early, Sherry L. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2017
The leadership capacity of resident assistants can be impacted by many experiences, including involvement in mentoring relationships. The purpose of this study was to examine if and how resident assistants' leadership capacities are influenced by participating in mentoring relationships. Additionally, mentor-protégé race and gender pairings were…
Descriptors: College Students, Resident Advisers, Student Leadership, Leadership Qualities
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Wu, Ho-Tang; Chou, Mei-Ju; Lei, Meng-Shan; Hou, Jing-Fang; Wu, Ming-Hsyang – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The research aims to develop "Sense of Life Meaning Scale" of Taiwan college students. In accordance with the related literature, most Western scholars adopted Frankl's Logotherapy for developing "Sense of Life Meaning Scale", which consists of freedom of will, will to meaning and meaning of life. The research also adopts these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
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Shulman, Lawrence – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
Factors external and internal to social work practice have caused our profession to question its role and identity. The emergence of evidence-based or evidenced informed practices forces the profession to reexamine its unique identity and its historical roots. This article addresses the problems in the dominant paradigm guiding our profession, the…
Descriptors: Social Work, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Models
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Allen, Lauren K.; Eagleson, Roy; de Ribaupierre, Sandrine – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2016
Neuroanatomy is one of the most challenging subjects in anatomy, and novice students often experience difficulty grasping the complex three-dimensional (3D) spatial relationships. This study evaluated a 3D neuroanatomy e-learning module, as well as the relationship between spatial abilities and students' knowledge in neuroanatomy. The study's…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Neurosciences, Undergraduate Students, Medical Students
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Gülkilika, Hilal; Ugurlu, Hasan Hüseyin; Yürük, Nejla – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
Students should learn mathematics with understanding. This is one of the ideas in the literature on mathematics education that everyone supports, from educational politicians to curriculum developers, from researchers to teachers, and from parents to students. In order to decide whether or not students understand mathematics we should first…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Geometric Concepts, Concept Formation, Grade 10
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Conti, Maria; LaMance, Rachel; Miller-Cochran, Susan – Composition Forum, 2017
To address the needs and interests of primary stakeholders in a writing program, this article presents a model of "grassroots" assessment that involves instructors from all ranks as well as students in the development, facilitation, and interpretation of assessment results. The authors describe two assessment plans that measured student…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Needs Assessment, Stakeholders, Student Needs
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Montecinos, Alicia M. – European Journal of Physics Education, 2014
A partially unusual behaviour was found among 14 sophomore students of civil engineering who took a pre test for a free fall laboratory session, in the context of a general mechanics course. An analysis contemplating mathematics models and physics models consistency was made. In all cases, the students presented evidence favoring a correct free…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Civil Engineering, Graphs, Pretesting
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Parsons, David; Stockdale, Rosemary – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2012
Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) are the subject of increasing interest for educators and trainers. This article reports on a longitudinal project that seeks to establish a virtual agile software development workshop hosted in the Open Wonderland MUVE, designed to help learners to understand the basic principles of some core agile software…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Longitudinal Studies, Workshops, Computer System Design
Stephens, Michael; Jones, Kyle M. L. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2014
Beyond for-credit offerings, some library and information science (LIS) schools are exploring MOOCs as a means to promote lifelong learning and professional development. Using web surveys and descriptive content analysis methods, this paper empirically addresses if, in LIS programs, MOOCs can fill a role and serve new populations of learners…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Lifelong Learning, Open Education, Online Courses
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Ramineni, Chaitanya; Trapani, Catherine S.; Williamson, David M.; Davey, Tim; Bridgeman, Brent – ETS Research Report Series, 2012
Automated scoring models for the "e-rater"® scoring engine were built and evaluated for the "GRE"® argument and issue-writing tasks. Prompt-specific, generic, and generic with prompt-specific intercept scoring models were built and evaluation statistics such as weighted kappas, Pearson correlations, standardized difference in…
Descriptors: Scoring, Test Scoring Machines, Automation, Models
Allen, Sue; And Others – 1995
An effective way to teach the concept of image is to give students a model of human vision which incorporates a simple mechanism of depth perception. In this study two almost identical versions of a curriculum in geometrical optics were created. One used a mechanistic, interpretive eye model, and in the other the eye was modeled as a passive,…
Descriptors: Depth Perception, Geometry, Light, Models
DeVito, Pasquale J.; Long, John V. – 1977
The impact of achievement testing on a Spring-Spring vs. a Fall-Spring basis in evaluation of compensatory education programs is examined. The effects of the summer vacation period and crossing test levels were examined. Significant decreases in achievement test scores were found, at all grade levels, between Spring and Fall test administrations.…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Case, Robbie – 1974
A functional (as opposed to structural) theory of intellectual development is presented and used to generate specific performance models for Piagetian tasks involving the control of variables (cf. Inhelder and Piaget, 1958). On the basis of these models, it is concluded that intelligent, field independent 7- and 8-year-olds should be able to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes, Conservation (Concept)
Salmon, Robert; And Others – 1977
The effect of an advance organizer on post test performance was studied in a 2 X 2 X 2 factorial design with the effects of the organizer, pretest and mathematics learning passage controlled. An advance organizer of approximately 500 words and a learning passage of approximately 1,000 words were developed. A 41-item multiple choice test based on…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Style, Higher Education, Learning
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