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Ren, Zhiyun; Rangwala, Huzefa; Johri, Aditya – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
The past few years has seen the rapid growth of data mining approaches for the analysis of data obtained from Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The objectives of this study are to develop approaches to predict the scores a student may achieve on a given grade-related assessment based on information, considered as prior performance or prior…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Sutherland, Sandra; Winn, William – 1987
The interactions of three factors that may be involved with the memory for pattern or sequence in visual materials were investigated in this study: (1) arbitrariness of representation; (2) task; and (3) ability of students. The subjects, who were 29 graduate students in education, were pretested for general ability and randomly assigned to four…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Instructional Design
Underwood, Benton J. – 1974
A proposal to formulate nomothetic theories -- general statements or scientific laws -- in a way to allow for an immediate test of individual differences is presented. The need for such a proposal is cited in recent developments in structural model building in the area of memory called information processing and in the concern to bring individual…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Hypothesis Testing, Individual Differences, Learning Processes
Brown, Edward K. – 1974
Although a lot of data on the psychological characteristics of children having learning disabilities have been gathered, not very much has been done to discover the underlying mechanisms, processes, or phenomenon of learning disability. Without more investigations which attempt to get at these, we will continue to be at a loss to prescribe…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Morris, Deborah R.; Gredler, Margaret E.; Schwartz, Linda S. – 1998
A sample of 72 nuclear power plant operators in requalification training at a southeastern nuclear power facility was studied to investigate the role of trainees' perceptions of their self-regulatory activities in explaining achievement in an industrial training setting. Respondents completed the Self-Regulatory Activities Survey, which was a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students