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Maungchang, Rasimate; Dam-O, Punsiri – Physics Education, 2021
This paper demonstrates an experimental integrated lesson of physics and calculus in a topic of fluid force applying on different shapes of dams. This lesson was designed for the first year students in engineering program in an attempt to show them the connection between these two disciplines, as well as to introduce more advanced…
Descriptors: Physics, Calculus, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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O'Leary, Erin Sanders; Sayson, Hannah Whang; Shapiro, Casey; Garfinkel, Alan; Conley, William J.; Levis-Fitzgerald, Marc; Eagan, M. Kevin; Van Valkenburgh, Blaire – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
Calculus is typically one of the first college courses encountered by science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors. Calculus often presents major challenges affecting STEM student persistence, particularly for students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM. For life sciences majors, calculus courses may not offer…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Calculus, Mathematics Curriculum, Biological Sciences
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Kim, Dong-gook; Garcia, Fernando; Dey, Ishita – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2012
Many business schools or colleges require calculus as a prerequisite for certain classes or for continuing to upper division courses. While there are many studies investigating the relationship between performance in calculus and performance in a single course, such as economics, statistics, and finance, there are very few studies investigating…
Descriptors: Calculus, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Phelps, James L. – Educational Considerations, 2012
In most school achievement research, the relationships between achievement and explanatory variables follow the Newton and Einstein concept/principle and the viewpoint of the macro-observer: Deterministic measures based on the mean value of a sufficiently large number of schools. What if the relationships between achievement and explanatory…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computation, Probability, Statistics
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Fuchs, Bruce A.; Miller, Jon D. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2012
Physicians and other health professionals are an important part of the national scientific and technical workforce, and it is important to understand the factors that attract (or fail to attract) young adults into these fields. Using data from the 20-year record of the Longitudinal Study of American Youth (LSAY) and working within a social…
Descriptors: Socialization, Health Occupations, Career Choice, Physicians
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Karl, Andrew T.; Yang, Yan; Lohr, Sharon L. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2013
Value-added models have been widely used to assess the contributions of individual teachers and schools to students' academic growth based on longitudinal student achievement outcomes. There is concern, however, that ignoring the presence of missing values, which are common in longitudinal studies, can bias teachers' value-added scores.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Thieken, John – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A sample of 127 high school Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus students from two schools was utilized to study the effects of an engineering design-based problem solving strategy on student performance with AP style Related Rate questions and changes in conceptions, beliefs, and influences. The research design followed a treatment-control multiple…
Descriptors: Engineering, Problem Solving, Advanced Placement, Calculus
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Taasoobshirazi, Gita; Carr, Martha – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
A model of expertise in physics was tested on a sample of 374 college students in 2 different level physics courses. Structural equation modeling was used to test hypothesized relationships among variables linked to expert performance in physics including strategy use, pictorial representation, categorization skills, and motivation, and these…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Physics, Student Motivation
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Lockshin, Jeffrey; Zamkov, Oleg – Policy Futures in Education, 2009
A significant amount of attention has been given to the predictors of academic achievement in higher education. However, the vast majority of articles have centred on entrance criteria and the learning approaches or personal habits of students. Investigations into how achievement depends on student efforts, being almost invariably based on…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Assignments, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
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Kenney, Patricia Ann; Kallison, James M., Jr. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1994
Two studies of the effectiveness of supplemental instruction (SI) for college-level calculus courses are reported. In each, achievement was compared for students whose discussion groups were conducted using the supplemental instruction (SI) model and those whose discussion groups were conducted with traditional content-only focus. In both cases,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Calculus, College Instruction
Bloom, Allan M.; And Others – 1988
In response to the increasing importance of student performance in required classes, research was conducted to compare two prediction procedures, linear modeling using multiple regression and nonlinear modeling using AID3. Performance in the first college math course (College Mathematics, Calculus, or Business Calculus Matrices) was the dependent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Calculus, College Mathematics
Asera, Rose – College Entrance Examination Board, 2001
Commissioned by the College Board's National Task Force on Minority High Achievement, this report presents a history of the Emerging Scholars Program, a proven strategy for increasing the number of underrepresented minority students who achieve at high levels in freshman calculus (and in initial freshman courses in several of the sciences,…
Descriptors: Calculus, High Achievement, Minority Group Students, Educational History
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers