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Tempelaar, Dirk – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2021
The search for rigor in learning analytics applications has placed survey data in the suspect's corner, favoring more objective trace data. A potential lack of objectivity in survey data is the existence of response styles, the tendency of respondents to answer survey items in a particular biased manner, such as yeah saying or always disagreeing.…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Responses, Surveys, Bias
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Barouch-Gilbert, Abraham – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Student engagement can be thought as the intersection between student behaviors and institutional conditions (Kuh et al., 2007). Focusing on what the institution does, academic probation is a policy intended to enable student engagement (Arcand, 2013; Duffy, 2010; Houle, 2013; Holland, 2005). However, academic probation is also a classification…
Descriptors: Academic Probation, Learner Engagement, College Students, Classification
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Savolainen, Reijo – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2015
Introduction: The article contributes to the conceptual studies of affective factors in information seeking by examining Kuhlthau's information search process model. Method: This random-digit dial telephone survey of 253 people (75% female) living in a rural, medically under-serviced area of Ontario, Canada, follows-up a previous interview study…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Information Seeking, Models, Interviews
Wang, Yutao; Heffernan, Neil T.; Heffernan, Cristina – Grantee Submission, 2015
The well-studied Baker et al., affect detectors on boredom, frustration, confusion and engagement concentration with ASSISTments dataset were used to predict state tests scores, college enrollment, and even whether a student majored in a STEM field. In this paper, we present three attempts to improve upon current affect detectors. The first…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Affective Behavior, Psychological Patterns, Predictor Variables
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Anczewska, Marta; Switaj, Piotr; Roszczynskamichta, Joanna; Chrostek, Anna; Charzynska, Katarzyna – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
Schizophrenia as mental illness is defined in terms of diagnostic criteria which do not include the full range of psychosocial difficulties that shape the lived experience of persons with this diagnosis and affect their quality of life. The biopsychosocial approach found in the World Health Organization's International Classification of…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Psychological Patterns, Biological Influences, Classification
Guillermo-Wann, Chelsea – Online Submission, 2012
The practical problem of how to utilize multiple race data in quantitative higher education research collides with neo-conservative and liberal assumptions that a perceived growth in a post-civil rights multiracial population suggests racism no longer exists, and with concerns that multiracial data will undermine civil rights progress. Given that…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Multiracial Persons, Predictor Variables, Classification
Fernandez, Ephrem P. – 1984
This paper presents cognitive strategies as one major approach to pain management. They are discussed as part of a trimodal system of pain management that also includes behavioral manipulations and physical intervention. The need for a standardized classification to deal with terminological inconsistency in the literature on cognitive management…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring
McCaulley, Mary H. – 1974
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was developed specifically to make possible the implementation of Carl Jung's theory of type and is concerned mainly with conscious elements of the personality. It assumes that to function well, an individual must have a well-developed system for perception and a well-developed system for making decisions or…
Descriptors: Classification, College Students, Individual Characteristics, Learning Processes
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Holland, John L. – American Psychologist, 1996
Outlines J. L. Holland's (1985) typology of persons and environments, and summarizes the support for this theory in explaining stability and change in careers and work satisfaction. Recent research that strengthens the explanatory power of Holland's typology and links it to the Big Five personality factors is described. Speculations about using…
Descriptors: Career Change, Classification, Employment Patterns, Job Satisfaction
Sendbuehler, J. M.; And Others – 1979
Distinctions between non-suicidal and suicidal depression were investigated. Epidemiological profiles of depressed patients (40 suicidal and 40 non-suicidal) were matched for sex and age. Independent raters diagnosed each subject according to five classifications of depression. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scores for each…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology)
Biggers, J. Thompson; Masterson, John T. – 1983
It is axiomatic that context influences interpersonal behaviors, yet communication researchers have had limited success in generating a set of conceptual or operational definitions for the situation variable. Two studies were conducted to examine emotion-eliciting qualities as the basis for such a typology and the relationship of situations…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classification, Communication Research, Higher Education
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Funabiki, Dean; And Others – 1981
Research directed toward examining clinical depression among college students requires valid criterion measures for identifying depressed individuals. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the most widely-used self-report screening instrument for identifying depressed college students, has been criticized for its heavy emphasis on cognitive items…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Processes
Atkinson, Leslie; And Others – 1987
The confusion surrounding all aspects of school refusal may rest partly on the misguided assumption that the disturbance represents a single syndrome. Five consistently emerging variables which may help distinguish among school phobic types were abstracted from the literature: extensiveness of disturbance, mode of onset, age, fear source, and…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Depression (Psychology), Elementary Secondary Education