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Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2024
These are the appendixes for the report, "Strengthening the Pennsylvania School Climate Survey to Inform School Decisionmaking." This study analyzed Pennsylvania School Climate Survey data from students and staff in the 2021/22 school year to assess the validity and reliability of the elementary school student version of the survey;…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Surveys, Decision Making, School Personnel
Audrey Devine-Eller – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
This case study draws on my quantitative study of college entrance exam preparation (also known as "test prep") to illustrate how a researcher goes about setting up a quantitative project using existing datasets. I describe how I decided between two different datasets, a decision which required attention to how the research question was…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Research Methodology, Test Preparation, College Entrance Examinations
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2017
This 60-Second survey (Appendix A) was a partnership between the American Council on Education (ACE) and AACRAO. Colleges and universities have invested in the use of data analytics to improve student outcomes, close attainment gaps, and improve organizational performance. As environmental conditions continue to evolve, the pressure to do so in…
Descriptors: Data, Institutional Research, Opinions, Access to Information
Pouliakas, Konstantinos, Ed. – Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2021
The world of work is being impacted by a fourth industrial revolution, transformed by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. With forecasts suggesting large shares of workers, displaced by automation, in need of upskilling/reskilling, the design of active skills policies is necessary. Conventional methods used to anticipate…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Employment Qualifications
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McGinley, Jacqueline; Waldrop, Deborah P.; Clemency, Brian – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
Background: Emergency medical services (EMS) providers are often called to rapidly determine and act upon patients' wishes for end-of-life care. People with intellectual disabilities are living increasingly longer with complex conditions leading to international calls for person-centred advance care planning. Yet, best estimates suggest that very…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Medical Services, Allied Health Personnel, Death
Huebner, Richard A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The ubiquity of data in various forms has fueled the need for advanced data-mining techniques within organizations. The advent of data mining methods used to uncover hidden nuggets of information buried within large data sets has also fueled the need for determining how these unique projects can be successful. There are many challenges associated…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Information Retrieval, Surveys
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Keuning, Trynke; Van Geel, Marieke; Visscher, Adrie – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2017
The use of data for adaptive, tailor-made education can be beneficial for students with learning difficulties. While evaluating the effects of a data-based decision-making (DBDM) intervention on student outcomes, considerable variation between intervention effects, ranging from high-intervention effects to small or even negative intervention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Data Analysis
Custer, Samantha; King, Elizabeth M.; Atinc, Tamar Manuelyan; Read, Lindsay; Sethi, Tanya – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2018
Governments, organizations, and companies are generating copious amounts of data and analysis to support education decision-making around the world. While continued investments in data creation and management are necessary, the ultimate value of information is not in its "production," but its "use." Herein lies one of the…
Descriptors: Surveys, Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Business-Higher Education Forum, 2017
Increasingly US jobs require data science and analytics skills. Can we meet the demand? The current shortage of skills in the national job pool demonstrates that business-as-usual strategies won't satisfy the growing need. If we are to unlock the promise and potential of data and all the technologies that depend on it, employers and educators will…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Job Skills, Surveys
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Yakavets, Natallia; Frost, David; Khoroshash, Aidar – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2017
The article examines the scope for initiative and independent action that lies with school principals in Kazakhstan, with a particular focus on capacity-building approaches. The study is situated within a large collaborative project between three institutions: the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, Nazarbayev University Graduate School…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Styles, Capacity Building
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Ji, Daniel; Sullivan, Richard – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Although previous research has explored the efficacy of differential response (DR) programs in child welfare, there have been no studies to date about coding decisions between designations by child protection service agencies. Research has explored client satisfaction with DR as well as rates of recidivism and removal/placement but with limited…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Coding, Foster Care, Decision Making
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Xu, Lei; Richman, Alice R. – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
Making decisions to undergo Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) genetic testing can be challenging. It is important to understand how the perceptions of affected individuals might influence testing decision-making. Although evidence has shown that psychological factors are important in predicting testing decisions, affect-type variables have been…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Parents, Children, Genetics
AbuSalah, Ahmad Mohammad – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The volume of information generated by healthcare providers is growing at a relatively high speed. This tremendous growth has created a gap between knowledge and clinical practice that experts say could be narrowed with the proper use of healthcare data to guide clinical decisions and tools that support rapid information availability at the…
Descriptors: Surgery, Risk Assessment, Data Analysis, Patients
Phillips, Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Over the last years, principals in schools have had to contend with numerous governmental regulations that change with each passing year. The change from instruction based on concepts to instruction based on standards to instruction based on student performance has created a need for principals to utilize data in ever-increasing forms. Both…
Descriptors: Principals, Surveys, Correlation, Mixed Methods Research
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Pietarinen, Janne; Pyhältö, Kirsi; Soini, Tiina – Curriculum Journal, 2017
The study aims to gain a better understanding of the national large-scale curriculum process in terms of the used implementation strategies, the function of the reform, and the curriculum coherence perceived by the stakeholders accountable in constructing the national core curriculum in Finland. A large body of school reform literature has shown…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Strategies
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