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Ramesh, Arti; Goldwasser, Dan; Huang, Bert; Daume, Hal; Getoor, Lise – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2020
Maintaining and cultivating student engagement is critical for learning. Understanding factors affecting student engagement can help in designing better courses and improving student retention. The large number of participants in massive open online courses (MOOCs) and data collected from their interactions on the MOOC open up avenues for studying…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Learner Engagement, Student Behavior, Success
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Mora, Toni; Escardíbul, Josep-Oriol – Youth & Society, 2018
It is well documented that parental behavior is a strong determinant of a child's educational achievement and general well-being. Thus, it seems relevant to analyze the determinants of parental involvement in the education of their children. While most studies analyze the effect of family characteristics (such as parents' education, ethnicity, or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Homework, Parent Role
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Chen, Fei; Andrade, Heidi – Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of criteria-referenced formative assessment (CRFA) on students' achievement in theater arts. The role of type of task in differentiating the treatment-achievement relationship was explored. The analytical sample included 520 fifth-grade students from 13 schools in New York City. Schools were…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Grade 5, Formative Evaluation, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Jones, C. M.; Green, J. P.; Higson, H. E. – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This study investigates whether the completion of an optional sandwich work placement enhances student performance in final year examinations. Using Propensity Score Matching, our analysis departs from the literature by controlling for self-selection. Previous studies may have overestimated the impact of sandwich work placements on performance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Job Placement, Foreign Countries, Universities
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Santana Vega, Lidia E.; González-Morales, Olga; Feliciano García, Luis – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2016
This work studied the entrepreneurial aspirations of 3,987 adolescents regarding self-employment and the influence of gender, age, nationality, type of school, location of the school, educational level and performance. The Logit model is used to analyze the data. The results indicate that the pupils' aspirations to be self-employed increase in the…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement
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Chan, Wendy – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
Recent methods to improve generalizations from nonrandom samples typically invoke assumptions such as the strong ignorability of sample selection, which is challenging to meet in practice. Although researchers acknowledge the difficulty in meeting this assumption, point estimates are still provided and used without considering alternative…
Descriptors: Generalization, Inferences, Probability, Educational Research
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Gershenson, Seth – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016
The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) increased accountability pressure in U.S. public schools by threatening to impose sanctions on Title-1 schools that failed to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) in consecutive years. Difference-in-difference estimates of the effect of failing AYP in the first year of NCLB on teacher effort in the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Attendance, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
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Agasisti, Tommaso; Murtinu, Samuele – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
In this paper, we estimate the effect of receiving financial aid for a cohort of students who enrolled at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in the year 2007/2008, through a propensity score matching approach. Using administrative data about these students for four years, the impact of the financial aid on several dimensions of academic performance was…
Descriptors: Grants, Higher Education, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Di Pietro, Giorgio – Education Economics, 2018
This paper uses a standard difference-in-differences approach to examine the effect of the L'Aquila earthquake on the academic performance of the students of the local university. The empirical results indicate that this natural disaster reduced students' probability of graduating on-time and slightly increased students' probability of dropping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Natural Disasters, College Students, Academic Achievement
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Morrison, Stephaney S.; Smith, Delores E.; Bryan, Julia A.; Steele, Janeé M. – Journal of School Counseling, 2016
Jamaican immigrant students are highly represented in U.S. public schools, primarily in regions concentrated throughout the east coast. Many of these students and their families have personal and social concerns that have implications for school counselors. In particular, scholars suggest that among this population, harsh methods of child…
Descriptors: Discipline, Parenting Styles, Latin Americans, Immigrants
Fematt, Veronica Lavenant – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Community college transfer students often experience "transfer shock" at receiving four-year institutions, which includes a variety of academic, social, and institutional challenges associated with the first-year transfer experience. Research has demonstrated that first-year program interventions can facilitate the transition of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Transfer Students, Student Adjustment
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Williamson, Ben – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
Educational institutions and governing practices are increasingly augmented with digital database technologies that function as new kinds of policy instruments. This article surveys and maps the landscape of digital policy instrumentation in education and provides two detailed case studies of new digital data systems. The Learning Curve is a…
Descriptors: Visualization, Synchronous Communication, Governance, Data Collection
Lipsey, Mark W.; Farran, Dale C.; Hofer, Kerry G. – Peabody Research Institute, 2016
Many states have implemented or expanded state-funded prekindergarten programs in the last decade, encouraged by claims about the benefits that can be expected and the importance of early experiences for children's development, especially for economically disadvantaged children. However, there is remarkably little methodologically adequate…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, State Programs, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Cimpian, Joseph R.; Thompson, Karen D.; Makowski, Martha B. – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Effectively educating the large English learner population requires policymakers to ensure developmentally appropriate settings and services throughout the time students are learning English, as well as during their transition to fluent English proficient status--a process termed "reclassification." Using longitudinal student-level data…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Classification, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Longitudinal Studies
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Hardcastle, Joseph; Herrmann-Abell, Cari F.; DeBoer, George E. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Can student performance on computer-based tests (CBT) and paper-and-pencil tests (PPT) be considered equivalent measures of student knowledge? States and school districts are grappling with this question, and although studies addressing this question are growing, additional research is needed. We report on the performance of students who took…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Testing, Comparative Analysis, Student Evaluation
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