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An Innovative Approach for Assisting Teachers in Improving Instructional Strategies via Analyzing Historical Assessment Data of Students
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Cheng, Li-Chen; Chu, Hui-Chun; Shiue, Bang-Min – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2015
Identifying learning problems of students has been recognized as an important issue for assisting teachers in improving their instructional skills or learning design strategies. The accumulated assessment data provide an excellent resource for achieving this objective. However, most of conventional testing systems only record students' test…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Problems, Innovation, Student Records
Assessing Undergraduate Students' Conceptual Understanding and Confidence of Electromagnetics
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Leppavirta, Johanna – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2012
The study examines how students' conceptual understanding changes from high confidence with incorrect conceptions to high confidence with correct conceptions when reasoning about electromagnetics. The Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism test is weighted with students' self-rated confidence on each item in order to infer how strongly…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Universities
The Effects of Hypermedia on Learning: A Literature Review.
Ambrose, David W. – Educational Technology, 1991
Reviews relevant scholarly literature on hypermedia from two perspectives: (1) an analysis of hypermedia in terms of learning theory; and (2) the implications of several characteristics of hypermedia for instructional designers, including its impact on learner control, concept development, and collection of data on student performance. Research…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Data Collection, Hypermedia
Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (12th, Montreal, Canada, July 2-5, 2019)
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
Concepts of School Effectiveness as Derived from Research Strategies: Differences in the Findings.
Airasian, Peter W.; And Others – 1979
The methodological parameters of evaluative research studies help to identify a conceptualization of the phenomenon under investigation. Holistic critiques that identify the conceptual models under which the research was conducted shed light on the validity of the disparate inferences made from a number of studies of schools and school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Pupil Attitudes, Achievement and Behavior in a Muiti-Age Nongraded School. Final Report.
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Vogel, Francis X.; Bowers, Norman D. – 1968
A study determined the effect of school organization on pupil attitudes, achievement, conceptual maturity, and classroom behavior. Ten teachers in each of three groups in a midwestern school district were selected and 707 pupils enrolled in their classes comprised the sample. An experimental group was placed in a nongraded form of organization,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration, Age Differences, Bibliographies