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Kinnebrew, John S.; Loretz, Kirk M.; Biswas, Gautam – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2013
Computer-based learning environments can produce a wealth of data on student learning interactions. This paper presents an exploratory data mining methodology for assessing and comparing students' learning behaviors from these interaction traces. The core algorithm employs a novel combination of sequence mining techniques to identify deferentially…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Middle School Students, Information Retrieval, Student Behavior
Shively, Joe E. – 1975
This report describes a survey of Appalachian parents conducted to determine what abilities they expect their children to develop before entrance into first grade. The survey was designed to help establish an empirical base for the curriculum of Appalachia Educational Laboratory's Home-Oriented Preschool Education Program (HOPE). HOPE is an…
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Wilcoxon, Reba, Ed. – 1968
This booklet briefly describes the activities of the Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education (DARCEE), including the basic philosophy of the DARCEE approach, the application of that philosophy in the classroom, the three different classroom training centers, the intervention program, and research and training programs. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Mookherjee, Harsha N. – 1976
Class awareness among rural children was investigated in three dimensions: cognitive, behavioral, and evaluative. Data were obtained from 378 white students in grades K-8 in 9 rural elementary schools in the Upper Cumberland region of middle Tennessee. Children's social class background (SES) was determined by their father's occupational strata…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Cues, Elementary Secondary Education
Dodson, Susan; And Others – 1978
The document describes the Pediatric Language Laboratory, a day care center which provides day care and therapeutic services to 20 mild to moderate communicatively delayed children, 1 to 4 years old. Initial sections address program philosophy; program components (diagnostics, remedial services, typical services, parent education, and community…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Classroom Design, Cognitive Development, Communication Disorders
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Schwartz, Daniel L.; Martin, Taylor; Pfaffman, Jay – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2005
Three studies examined whether mathematics can propel the development of physical understanding. In Experiment 1, 10-year-olds solved balance scale problems that used easy-to-count discrete quantities or hard-to-count continuous quantities. Discrete quantities led to age typical performances. Continuous quantities caused performances like those of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Developmental Psychology, Experiments, Problem Solving
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Henderson, Christopher L.; Buehler, Alison E.; Stein, William L.; Dalton, John E.; Robinson, Teresa R.; Anfara, Vincent A., Jr. – NASSP Bulletin, 2005
Although the successful middle level school was designed to address both the affective and cognitive development of young adolescents (NMSA 2003), academic achievement is the outcome of paramount importance in the current political context of accountability, high-stakes testing, and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. In their efforts to reform,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Adolescents, Academic Achievement, Accountability
FOWLER, WILLIAM L.
THIS REPORT BRIEFLY REVIEWS TRENDS IN 20TH-CENTURY RESEARCH ON EDUCATING DISADVANTAGED AND MINORITY GROUP PUPILS. MANY STUDIES WRITTEN IN THE 1920'S AND 1930'S INDICATED THAT NEGROES WERE LESS INTELLIGENT THAN CAUCASIANS, AND THUS TEACHERS DEMANDED LITTLE OF THEIR MINORITY GROUP PUPILS. SINCE THAT TIME RESEARCH STUDIES HAVE EMPHASIZED THE…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth