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Karimov, Ayaz; Saarela, Mirka; Kärkkäinen, Tommi – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2023
Within the last decade, different educational data mining techniques, particularly quantitative methods such as clustering, and regression analysis are widely used to analyze the data from educational games. In this research, we implemented a quantitative data mining technique (clustering) to further investigate students' feedback. Students played…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response), Educational Games, Information Retrieval
Whitehurst, Grover J.; Chingos, Matthew M.; Gallaher, Michael R. – Brookings Institution, 2013
School districts occupy center stage in education reform in the U.S. They manage nearly all public funding and are frequently the locus of federal and state reform initiatives, e.g., instituting meaningful teacher evaluation systems. Financial compensation for district leaders is high, with many being paid more than the chief state school officers…
Descriptors: School Districts, Superintendents, Academic Achievement, Influences
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Sani, Claudia; Grilli, Leonardo – Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods, 2011
The performance of a school system can be evaluated through the learning levels of the pupils, usually summarized by school mean scores. The variability of the mean scores among schools is rarely studied in detail, though it is a crucial issue especially in primary schools: in fact, a high variability among schools raises doubts on the capacity of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Districts, Academic Achievement, Institutional Evaluation