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Bottoms, Gene – State Education Standard, 2023
Most states claim academic rigor and career readiness as goals for all their students. But as school systems continue tracking students into higher or lower levels of academic coursework and into career and technical courses that lack rigorous, real-world assignments, they reflect an apparent underlying belief that their students' abilities are…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Career Readiness, High School Students, State Boards of Education
Thacker, Nathan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Organic chemistry is a class well known to be difficult and necessary for many careers in the sciences, and as a result, has garnered interest in researching ways to improve student learning and comprehension. One potential way involves using eye tracking techniques to understand how students visually examine questions. Organic chemistry involves…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Multiple Choice Tests, Organic Chemistry, Science Tests
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Sparks, Jesse R.; van Rijn, Peter W.; Deane, Paul – Educational Assessment, 2021
Effectively evaluating the credibility and accuracy of multiple sources is critical for college readiness. We developed 24 source evaluation tasks spanning four predicted difficulty levels of a hypothesized learning progression (LP) and piloted these tasks to evaluate the utility of an LP-based approach to designing formative literacy assessments.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Information Sources, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Maurer, Trent W. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated unprecedented changes to teaching and learning in higher education. SoTL-active faculty were uniquely positioned to leverage their knowledge and expertise to improve teaching and learning during the pandemic not only in their own courses, but through a knowledge mobilization approach also in broader contexts…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, College Faculty
Martin, Melissa Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Latinx students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE; ages 18-20), not enrolled in school, often do not fully employ mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) strategies to acquire English and may experience barriers to using MALL strategies. The purpose of this study was to explore what MALL strategies Latinx SLIFE (ages 18-20), not…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Griffith, David; McDougald, Victoria – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2016
This report seeks answers to a straightforward question: "How hard is it to dismiss an ineffective veteran teacher?" Toward that end, the authors constructed a ten-point metric based on three subquestions: (1) Does tenure protect veteran teachers from performance-based dismissal? (2) How long does it take to dismiss an ineffective…
Descriptors: Teacher Dismissal, School Districts, Teacher Effectiveness, Tenure
Washington, Lisa Romaine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this ex post facto study was to determine differences in the level of student engagement in (a) students attending community colleges that participated in the Achieving the Dream (AtD) in 2011 and 2012 and (b) students attending community colleges that did not participate in AtD in 2011 and 2012. The Community College Survey of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Statistical Analysis, Teacher Student Relationship, College Faculty
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Wesolowski, Brian C.; Amend, Ross M.; Barnstead, Thomas S.; Edwards, Andrew S.; Everhart, Matthew; Goins, Quentin R.; Grogan, Robert J., III; Herceg, Amanda M.; Jenkins, S. Ira; Johns, Paul M.; McCarver, Christopher J.; Schaps, Robin E.; Sorrell, Gary W.; Williams, Jonathan D. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to describe the development of a valid and reliable rubric to assess secondary-level solo instrumental music performance based on principles of invariant measurement. The research questions that guided this study included (1) What is the psychometric quality (i.e., validity, reliability, and precision) of a scale…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Musical Instruments, Measurement Techniques
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Le Doux, Joseph M.; Waller, Alisha A. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2016
This paper describes the problem-solving studio (PSS) learning environment. PSS was designed to teach students how to solve difficult analytical engineering problems without resorting to rote memorization of algorithms, while at the same time developing their deep conceptual understanding of the course topics. There are several key features of…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Apprenticeships, Engineering Education, Teaching Methods
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Zheng, Robert; Hicken, Bret L.; Hill, Robert D.; Luptak, Marilyn; Daniel, Candice M.; Grant, Marren; Rupper, Randall – Educational Gerontology, 2016
This research project included two studies that investigated (a) differences between technology use in tech-knowledgeable and less tech-knowledgeable older persons, (b) cognitive and affective variables and their association with the application of technology, and (c) the implications of these variables on the design of remote-delivered caregiver…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Older Adults, Technology Uses in Education, Technological Literacy
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Orenstein, Ellen; Basilakos, Alexandra; Marshall, Rebecca Shisler – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2012
Background: There is evidence to suggest that people with aphasia (PWA) may have deficits in attention stemming from the inefficient allocation of resources. The inaccurate perception of task demand, or sense of effort, may underlie the misallocation of the available attention resources. Given the lack of treatment options for improving attention…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Metacognition, Attention, Improvement
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Deane, Paul; Lawless, René R.; Li, Chen; Sabatini, John; Bejar, Isaac I.; O'Reilly, Tenaha – ETS Research Report Series, 2014
We expect that word knowledge accumulates gradually. This article draws on earlier approaches to assessing depth, but focuses on one dimension: richness of semantic knowledge. We present results from a study in which three distinct item types were developed at three levels of depth: knowledge of common usage patterns, knowledge of broad topical…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Test Items, Language Tests, Semantics
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Mooring, Suazette R.; Mitchell, Chloe E.; Burrows, Nikita L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
Organic Chemistry is recognized as a course that presents many difficulties and conceptual challenges for students. To combat the high failure rates and poor student attitudes associated with this challenging course, we implemented a "flipped" model for the first-semester, large-enrollment, Organic Chemistry course. In this flipped…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Education, Organic Chemistry, Blended Learning
Hodara, Michelle; Jaggars, Shanna Smith; Karp, Melinda Mechur – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2012
At open-access two-year public colleges, the goal of the traditional assessment and placement process is to match incoming students to the developmental or college-level courses for which they have adequate preparation; the process presumably increases underprepared students' chances of short- and long-term success in college while maintaining the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Placement, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
Kearse, Douglas – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The Savannah Early College Program (SECP) opened its doors in August 2007 to make a difference in the lives of all students who enrolled. Its primary mission was to combine academic rigor and support to help students enter college early and graduate from high school with up to 2 years of college credit. Since SECP joined the Early College High…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High Schools, Higher Education, Acceleration (Education)
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