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Bolsinova, Maria; Tijmstra, Jesper – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2016
Conditional independence (CI) between response time and response accuracy is a fundamental assumption of many joint models for time and accuracy used in educational measurement. In this study, posterior predictive checks (PPCs) are proposed for testing this assumption. These PPCs are based on three discrepancy measures reflecting different…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Accuracy, Statistical Analysis, Robustness (Statistics)
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Andryukhina, Lyudmila M.; Dneprov, Sergey ?.; Sumina, Tatyana G.; Zimina, Elena Yu.; Utkina, Svetlana N.; Mantulenko, Valentina V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the researched issue is preconditioned by the strategic changes in the secondary vocational education system taking place not only in Russia, but also in the majority of industrially developed countries. Provision of the system with qualified pedagogical staff is the leading strategic objective of development of the secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Vocational Education, Teacher Competencies
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Timmermans, Anneke C.; Thomas, Sally M. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
In many countries, policy makers struggle with the development of value-added indicators of school performance for educational accountability purposes and in particular with the choice whether school context measured in the form of student composition variables should be included. This study investigates differences between 7 empirical studies…
Descriptors: School Demography, School Effectiveness, Educational Research, Comparative Analysis
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Collin, Ross; Reich, Gabriel A. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
This article presents discourse analyses of two lesson plans designed for secondary school history classes. Although the plans focus on the same topic, they rely on different models of content area literacy: disciplinary literacy, or reading and writing like experts in a given domain, and critical literacy, or reading and writing to address…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Lesson Plans, Secondary Education, Literacy
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Abankina, T. V. – Russian Education and Society, 2014
Data from a comparative study of the educational, career, and migration strategies of rural school students in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan show high levels of educational aspiration. This is likely to increase the flow of population to urban areas, to increase the rate of urbanization, and to have demographic and economic consequences that will…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Comparative Analysis, Academic Aspiration
Galler, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative research study was to explore how young adults who have an autism spectrum disorder perceive their life choices after secondary education. The focus participants in the sample were young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). For the purpose of this research, ASD includes autism and Asperger's…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Adults, Adults
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Fung, Dennis; Howe, Christine – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2014
This article reports the findings of a one-year longitudinal study that investigated the impact of group work on the development of students' critical thinking in Hong Kong secondary schools. It explores whether the participation of teachers in a group-based teaching intervention adapted from an earlier study conducted in the United Kingdom (UK)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Liberal Arts, Critical Thinking
Smith, Jamie Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The development of quality educational programs, designed to meet the needs of all students, is a pivotal responsibility of educators and yet a considerable challenge due to the diverse needs in each school. Many consider the Response to Intervention (RtI) model to be one initiative with the greatest potential to improve education for all students…
Descriptors: Evidence, Reading Improvement, Educational Finance, Academic Achievement
Frost, Denise Stewart – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The problem is that some secondary schools use the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program to service gifted students even though it was not developed as a gifted model. The purpose of the study is to determine if gifted identified students benefit more or less academically than students not identified as gifted as a result of their…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Program Evaluation, Advanced Placement Programs, Tests
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Spence, Dianna J.; Sharp, Julia L.; Sinn, Robb – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2011
Four instructors used authentic research projects and related curriculum materials when teaching elementary statistics in secondary and undergraduate settings. Projects were authentic in that students selected their own variables, defined their own research questions, and collected and analyzed their own data. Classes using these projects were…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Statistics
Holmgren, Mark Andrew – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines consumer behavior in different markets. Six different types of Utah snow skiers, namely, half day, local, multiday, college and K-12 students, and season ticket holders, are analyzed in the first paper to determine their demand response to changes in prices, income, weather, transportation costs, and particular days. A…
Descriptors: High Schools, Grade Point Average, Secondary Education, Transportation
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Thompson, Kate; Reimann, Peter – Computers & Education, 2010
A classification system that was developed for the use of agent-based models was applied to strategies used by school-aged students to interrogate an agent-based model and a system dynamics model. These were compared, and relationships between learning outcomes and the strategies used were also analysed. It was found that the classification system…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Models
Schairer-Kessler, Cynthia J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Much demand remains for teacher education programs to produce highly qualified teachers. Current trends show that almost half of today's preservice teachers are considered nontraditional in terms of age and life experience. The purpose of this study was to determine whether secondary education teacher preparation programs should differentiate…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Chow, Angela; Salmela-Aro, Katariina – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
This study examined what kinds of groups can be identified according to students' task-values across four subject domains (languages, math and science, social sciences, practical subjects) and the related gender differences using a person-centered approach. Latent class analysis was applied to classify 638 students (mean age = 15) into four…
Descriptors: Females, Compulsory Education, Social Sciences, Gender Differences
Raffe, David, Ed.; Spours, Ken, Ed. – Institute of Education - London, 2007
In recent years 14-19 education has been the subject of numerous reviews, innovations and policy changes. What can be learnt from this experience and do current policies incorporate this learning? In this book, leading experts on 14-19 education and training explore the concept of policy-learning and examine recent policies and policy-making in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Secondary Education, Learning
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