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Bethany Furqueron – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Attracting and retaining diverse individuals is a core goal for reform efforts within in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) gateway courses. Evidence-based instructional strategies in STEM, including those that incorporate scientific practices, have demonstrated promising findings regarding student learning gains. Inspired by…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Models, Teaching Methods
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Hodges, Linda C.; Beall, Lisa C.; Anderson, Eric C.; Carpenter, Tara S.; Cui, Lili; Feeser, Elizabeth; Gierasch, Tiffany; Nanes, Kalman M.; Perks, H. Mark; Wagner, Cynthia – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2020
Metacognition, the ability to think about and regulate one's thinking, is an important factor in effective student learning. One intervention to promote student metacognition is the exam wrapper--a reflection students complete after an exam noting how their performance related to their preparation. Results are mixed on the effect of the exam…
Descriptors: Tests, Academic Achievement, STEM Education, Metacognition
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McDuffie, Thomas E., Jr.; Bruce, Matthew H. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1980
Investigated the appropriateness of audiotutorial instruction for a wide spectrum of students. Questions whether there are significant relationships between personal traits of variables of achievement and success, whether there is a different set of personal traits for high and low achievers, and how well a battery makes ex post facto predictions.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biology, College Science, Higher Education
Thro, Mary Patricia – 1978
Individual differences in cognitive structures resulting primarily from exposure to physics content were investigated in this research study. Thirty college students were divided into a treatment group of 19 and a control group of 11. A regression analysis indicated that individual differences were probably operative. An analysis of variance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, College Students, Comprehension
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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
GROPPER, GEORGE L.; KRESS, GERALD C., JR. – 1964
THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF ALTERNATE APPROACHES TOWARD INDIVIDUALIZATION OF FIXED-PACED PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION WAS ASSESSED. THIS REPRESENTED THE THIRD IN A SERIES OF THREE STUDIES CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PACING MODE AND BEHAVIOR. (REFER TO ACCESSION NUMBERS ED 003 199, ED 003 200, AND ED 003 202 FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Educational Television, Educational Testing
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection