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Beth Chance; Andrew Kerr; Jett Palmer – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024
While many instructors are aware of the "Literary Digest" 1936 poll as an example of biased sampling methods, this article details potential further explorations for the "Digest's" 1924-1936 quadrennial U.S. presidential election polls. Potential activities range from lessons in data acquisition, cleaning, and validation, to…
Descriptors: Publications, Public Opinion, Surveys, Bias
Matthew McGrievy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this descriptive research study was to evaluate the web-based practice experience tracking system at a school of public health (SPH) at a large southeastern university. Applied practice experiences (APEs) are a key component of public health education, and schools and programs of public health in the United States must provide…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Public Health, Health Education
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Ustaog?lu, Mehmet Ali; Kukul, Volkan – Open Praxis, 2022
MOOCs can be considered as a powerful alternative in extraordinary situations where people cannot reach formal education. In recent years, the widespread use of the internet worldwide and especially the COVID-19 has increased the need of people for MOOCs. However, in order to increase the effectiveness of MOOCs, and to provide a better learning…
Descriptors: Students, MOOCs, Student Satisfaction, Electronic Publishing
Kagklis, Vasileios; Karatrantou, Anthi; Tantoula, Maria; Panagiotakopoulos, Chris T.; Verykios, Vassilios S. – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2015
Online fora have become not only one of the most popular communication tools in e-learning environments, but also one of the key factors of the learning process, especially in distance learning, as they can provide to the students involved, motivation for collaboration in order to achieve a common goal. The purpose of this study is to analyse data…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries
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Mousa, W. A. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to share the experience gained in, and the efforts made toward, introducing and implementing a new course in the challenging and important area of geophysical signal processing at the Electrical Engineering (EE) Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The new course,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Engineering Education, Geophysics
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Welsh, Katharine E.; Mauchline, Alice L.; Park, Julian R.; Whalley, W. Brian; France, Derek – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2013
This research paper reports the findings from an international survey of fieldwork practitioners on their use of technology to enhance fieldwork teaching and learning. It was found that there was high information technology usage before and after time in the field, but some were also using portable devices such as smartphones and global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Field Instruction, Information Technology, Handheld Devices
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Faulkner, Robert; Davidson, Jane W.; McPherson, Gary E. – International Journal of Music Education, 2010
The use of data mining for the analysis of data collected in natural settings is increasingly recognized as a legitimate mode of enquiry. This rule-inductive paradigm is an effective means of discovering relationships within large datasets--especially in research that has limited experimental design--and for the subsequent formulation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Processing, Pattern Recognition, Data Analysis
Michalski, Greg V. – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2011
Excessive college course withdrawals are costly to the student and the institution in terms of time to degree completion, available classroom space, and other resources. Although generally well quantified, detailed analysis of the reasons given by students for course withdrawal is less common. To address this, a text mining analysis was performed…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Courses, Withdrawal (Education), College Students
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Rafferty, Anna N., Ed.; Whitehill, Jacob, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Cavalli-Sforza, Violetta, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
The 13th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020) was originally arranged to take place in Ifrane, Morocco. Due to the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) epidemic, EDM 2020, as well as most other academic conferences in 2020, had to be changed to a purely online format. To facilitate efficient transmission of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teaching Methods, Information Retrieval, Data Processing
Singlemann, Jay C.; Lucas, John A. – 1980
In 1974, 1978, and 1980, follow-up surveys of former data processing students were conducted by William Rainey Harper College (WRHC) to help evaluate the data processing program and support curriculum development. The 1974 survey included anyone enrolled between fall 1968 and spring 1973 who had taken any data processing course, while the 1978 and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Processing, Data Processing Occupations
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Strutchens, Marilyn E. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1999
Presents an activity using national achievement data to involve students in a project on data collection and statistics while learning about their attitudes toward and beliefs about mathematics. This activity presents a good opportunity to talk about various interpretations of data and allows students to examine and discuss their attitudes about…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Data Processing, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
HASSE, RICHARD F.; MILLER, C. DEAN – 1967
TWO POINTS OF VIEW ON WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER ARE EVALUATED. THAT KNOWLEDGE OF ONE'S SUBJECT IS ENOUGH TO MAKE AN EFFECTIVE TEACHER WAS QUESTIONED BY NEIDT'S STUDY OF CHANGES IN ATTITUDES DURING LEARNING. CONTINUOUS INTERACTION BETWEEN THE LEARNER'S ATTITUDES AND ACHIEVEMENTS (PROGRESSIVE DISENCHANTMENT BECAME MORE PRONOUNCED AS LEARNING…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Data Processing, Evaluation Methods, Microteaching
Johnson County Community Coll., Overland Park, KS. – 1979
In the first of two studies of the data processing program at Johnson County Community College (Kansas), students enrolled in data processing classes during spring 1978 were surveyed to collect basic demographic data and to obtain opinions about the program. There were approximately as many men as women enrolled and the median age was 25, slightly…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Computer Science Education, Curriculum Evaluation
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Baker-Eveleth, Lori; Eveleth, Daniel M.; O'Neill, Michele; Stone, Robert W. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2006
The College of Business and Economics at the University of Idaho conducted a pilot study that used commercially available encryption software called Securexam to deliver computer-based examinations. A multi-step implementation procedure was developed, implemented, and then evaluated on the basis of what students viewed as valuable. Two key aspects…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Tests, Data Processing, Computer Security
Hayes, LaMarian – 1983
Magnet school programs were established in three Atlanta, Georgia, public high schools and were designed to provide specialized curriculum that was unique within the school system either in terms of the content area taught or the instructional strategies used. The programs were the Grady School of Communication, the North Fulton Center for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communications, Data Processing, High Schools
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