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Alexander D. Latham; David A. Klingbeil – Grantee Submission, 2024
The visual analysis of data presented in time-series graphs are common in single-case design (SCD) research and applied practice in school psychology. A growing body of research suggests that visual analysts' ratings are often influenced by construct-irrelevant features including Y-axis truncation and compression of the number of data points per…
Descriptors: Intervention, School Psychologists, Graphs, Evaluation Methods
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Eunice Sookyung Han; Emma Garcia – American Journal of Education, 2024
Purpose: The unanticipated changes in state legislation in Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, and Wisconsin in 2011-12 significantly restricted or entirely prohibited the collective bargaining rights of teachers. Considering these institutional changes as a natural experiment, we examine the causal impact of weakening teacher unionization on…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Teacher Rights, State Legislation, Workers Compensation
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Pratoomchat, Praopan; Mahjabeen, Rubana – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2023
This research aims to build economic research skills and stimulate students' interest in the local economy through data-based undergraduate research in entry-level economics courses. The authors developed two assignments and one student survey assessing students' learning outcomes and implemented them in two introductory-level classes from fall…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Undergraduate Students, Economics, Local Issues
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Matchett, Andrew – PRIMUS, 2023
This article describes five elementary statistics projects involving the COVID-19 data made available to the public in csv files by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The first project examined data available at the beginning of the COVID surge in New York City in spring, 2020, and used the correlation coefficient to estimate the…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Student Projects, COVID-19, Pandemics
Ko, Jen-Li; Joslyn, Jeff; Lu, Ganhua; Palmer, Jason; Charles, Malcolm; Sanganalu Mattha, Aishwarya; Parsons, Bob; Tatum, Ron; Redmann, Carey; Bialkowski, Walter – Metropolitan Universities, 2022
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin (FAEW) distributed 84% more food to community members in need during the COVID-19 pandemic than in the prior year. Though systems were in place to manage food receipt and distribution data, social distancing requirements and technological barriers revealed inefficiencies in utilizing this data. In pursuit of…
Descriptors: Hunger, School Community Relationship, Data, Data Analysis
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2021
"The Forum Guide to Strategies for Education Data Collection and Reporting (SEDCAR)" was created to provide timely and useful best practices for education agencies that are interested in designing and implementing a strategy for data collection and reporting, focusing on these as key elements of the larger data process. It builds upon…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Research, Statistical Data, Data Analysis
Kathy Strunk; Andrew R. Hinkle; Sheryl S. Lazarus; Carol Seay; Kascinda Fleming – National Center on Educational Outcomes, 2024
For many years state education agencies (SEAs) have sought to create assessment systems that include all students, including students with disabilities. In order to improve outcomes for students with disabilities, there is an urgent need for cross-agency collaboration between special education and assessment offices, but other offices (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Student Evaluation, Students with Disabilities, State Departments of Education
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Del Toro, Israel; Dickson, Kimberly; Hakes, Alyssa S.; Newman, Shannon L. – American Biology Teacher, 2022
Increasingly, students training in the biological sciences depend on a proper grounding in biological statistics, data science and experimental design. As biological datasets increase in size and complexity, transparent data management and analytical methods are essential skills for undergraduate biologists. We propose that using the software R…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Biology, Statistics Education, Data Analysis
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Thompson, Hilary H.; Smith, Austin; Ostos, Manuel; Gardinier, Lisa – College & Research Libraries, 2019
Inspired by the 2017 Big Ten Academic Alliance Library Conference's collective collection theme, the authors undertook a study to better understand the consortium's resource-sharing needs for Spanish and Portuguese materials published in Latin America. The authors employed multiple technologies to expedite gathering, reconciling, and analyzing…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consortia, Library Materials, Library Services
Data Quality Campaign, 2019
The most effective state efforts to improve student outcomes do not exist in a silo; they cut across multiple policy priorities to make data work for students. And while their crosscutting data initiatives can still be strengthened, some states are supporting schools with efforts that reach across the Data Quality Campaign's (DQC) Four Policy…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Outcomes of Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
King, Carlise; Perkins, Victoria – Early Childhood Data Collaborative, 2020
Over the last decade, state efforts to build stronger data infrastructure and integrate data about early childhood services have continued to grow. A stronger data infrastructure supports states in more easily linking data across programs, which in turn makes it easier to analyze and use that data to answer important policy questions. An Early…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Home Visits, Early Childhood Education
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2022
Digital inequity has been a long-standing issue in the education community. A lack of home internet and technology devices can not only hinder students' ability to access educational resources at home, but can also have a detrimental effect on student achievement. Education agencies have taken steps over the past decades to address digital…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Internet
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Tran, Henry; Buckman, David G. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2017
This study examines whether principals' movements and school achievement are associated with their salaries. Predictors of principal salaries were examined using three years of panel data. Results from a fixed-effects regression analysis suggest that principals who moved to school leadership positions in other districts leveraged higher salaries…
Descriptors: Principals, Salaries, Predictor Variables, Regression (Statistics)
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Ashmann, Scott; Franzen, Rebecca L. – Environmental Education Research, 2017
There is an urgent need for primary and secondary students to develop awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and an environmental ethic necessary to undertake environmental issues and problems. The need to adequately prepare teachers to teach about the environment, and the challenges the field of environmental education (EE) faces lead us to the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Environmental Education, Case Studies
Peters, Scott J.; Rambo-Hernandez, Karen; Makel, Matthew C.; Matthews, Michael S.; Plucker, Jonathan A. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2017
Few topics have garnered more attention in preservice teacher training and educational reform than student diversity and its influence on learning. However, the actual degree of cognitive diversity has yet to be considered regarding instructional implications for advanced learners. We used four data sets (three state-level and one national) from…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Academic Achievement, Language Arts
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