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Jing Liu; Julie Cohen – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021
Valid and reliable measurements of teaching quality facilitate school-level decision-making and policies pertaining to teachers. Using nearly 1,000 word-to-word transcriptions of fourth- and fifth-grade English language arts classes, we apply novel text-as-data methods to develop automated measures of teaching to complement classroom observations…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Language Arts, Elementary School Teachers
Jing Liu; Julie Cohen – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
Valid and reliable measurements of teaching quality facilitate school-level decision-making and policies pertaining to teachers, but conventional classroom observations are costly, prone to rater bias, and hard to implement at scale. Using nearly 1,000 word-to-word transcriptions of 4th- and 5th-grade English language arts classes, we apply novel…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Language Arts, Elementary School Teachers
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Montgomery, Amanda P.; Mousavi, Amin; Carbonaro, Michael; Hayward, Denyse V.; Dunn, William – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
Blended learning (BL) is a popular e-Learning model in higher education that has the potential to take advantage of learning analytics (LA) to support student learning. This study utilized LA to investigate fourth-year undergraduates' (n = 157) use of self-regulated learning (SRL) within the online components of a previously unexamined BL…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
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Wen, Miaomiao; Maki, Keith; Wang, Xu; Dow, Steven P.; Herbsleb, James; Rose, Carolyn – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
To create a satisfying social learning experience, an emerging challenge in educational data mining is to automatically assign students into effective learning teams. In this paper, we utilize discourse data mining as the foundation for an online team-formation procedure. The procedure features a deliberation process prior to team assignment,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Data Collection, Cooperative Learning, Predictor Variables
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Sharma, Kshitij; Chavez-Demoulin, Valérie; Dillenbourg, Pierre – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2017
The statistics used in education research are based on central trends such as the mean or standard deviation, discarding outliers. This paper adopts another viewpoint that has emerged in statistics, called extreme value theory (EVT). EVT claims that the bulk of normal distribution is comprised mainly of uninteresting variations while the most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Statistical Distributions, Theories
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Ay, Sule; Sahin, Seyma; Okmen, Burcu; Incirci, Ayhan – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
It was aimed in this study to reveal the general tendency of studies in the field of education by examining the papers in the high-impact A-class SSCI journals, to which qualified papers are accepted from all around the world, in terms of their dependent-independent variables, sample or study groups, research designs, data collection instruments,…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Journal Articles, Educational Research, Predictor Variables
Arnold, Kimberly E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In the 21st century, attainment of a college degree is more important than ever to achieve economic self-sufficiency, employment, and an adequate standard of living. Projections suggest that by 2020, 65% of jobs available in the U.S. will require postsecondary education. This reality creates an unprecedented demand for higher education, and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Profiles, Biographies, Demography
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Karatas, Serçin; Yilmaz, Ayse Bagriacik; Dikmen, Cemal Hakan; Ermis, Ugur Ferhat; Gürbüz, Onur – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2017
The aim of this study is to determine the trend concerning interaction in distance education between the years 2011 and 2015. According to this aim, 544 articles in the databases of EBSCO, Scopus, and Web of Science were examined. The examination has been conducted on the basis of various variables including year, country, number of authors,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Trend Analysis, Interaction, Qualitative Research
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Atherton, Mirella; Shah, Mahsood; Vazquez, Jenny; Griffiths, Zoe; Jackson, Brian; Burgess, Catherine – Open Learning, 2017
Curriculum design, teaching methods, assessments and range of academic support need to be inclusive in Open Access Enabling courses. The findings of this study confirm a correlation between student access to online learning materials and a positive impact on grades in science courses. More specifically, students who frequently use the online…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Educational Research, Data Collection
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Carver, Lin B.; Mukherjee, Keya; Lucio, Robert – Online Learning, 2017
Online education is rapidly becoming a significant method of course delivery in higher education. Consequently, instructors analyze student performance in an attempt to better scaffold student learning. Learning analytics can provide insight into online students' course behaviors. Archival data from 167 graduate level education students enrolled…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Correlation, Grades (Scholastic), Time on Task
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Ye, Cheng; Biswas, Gautam – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2014
Our project is motivated by the early dropout and low completion rate problem in MOOCs. We have extended traditional features for MOOC analysis with richer and higher granularity information to make more accurate predictions of dropout and performance. The results show that finer-grained temporal information increases the predictive power in the…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Avella, John T.; Kebritchi, Mansureh; Nunn, Sandra G.; Kanai, Therese – Online Learning, 2016
Higher education for the 21st century continues to promote discoveries in the field through learning analytics (LA). The problem is that the rapid embrace of of LA diverts educators' attention from clearly identifying requirements and implications of using LA in higher education. LA is a promising emerging field, yet higher education stakeholders…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Data Collection, Data Analysis
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Papamitsiou, Zacharoula; Economides, Anastasios A. – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
This paper aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive background for understanding current knowledge on Learning Analytics (LA) and Educational Data Mining (EDM) and its impact on adaptive learning. It constitutes an overview of empirical evidence behind key objectives of the potential adoption of LA/EDM in generic educational strategic…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research, Learning Processes
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Colthorpe, Kay; Zimbardi, Kirsten; Ainscough, Louise; Anderson, Stephen – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2015
It is well established that a student's capacity to regulate his or her own learning is a key determinant of academic success, suggesting that interventions targeting improvements in self-regulation will have a positive impact on academic performance. However, to evaluate the success of such interventions, the self-regulatory characteristics of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research, Self Control
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Mah, Dana-Kristin – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2016
Learning analytics and digital badges are emerging research fields in educational science. They both show promise for enhancing student retention in higher education, where withdrawals prior to degree completion remain at about 30% in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries. This integrative review provides an…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Recognition (Achievement)
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