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Xian, Sidong; Xia, Haibo; Yin, Yubo; Zhai, Zhansheng; Shang, Yan – Cogent Education, 2016
Teaching quality is the lifeline of the higher education. Many universities have made some effective achievement about evaluating the teaching quality. In this paper, we establish the Students' evaluation of teaching (SET) discriminant analysis model and algorithm based on principal component clustering analysis. Additionally, we classify the SET…
Descriptors: Discriminant Analysis, Factor Analysis, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Instructional Effectiveness
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Dowling, Simon – Management in Education, 2016
This article reports findings from the first year of a longitudinal, mixed-methods case study of a large teaching school alliance in England. This national initiative is intended to drive improvement at system level by grouping schools around formally designated teaching schools. These "alliances" work collaboratively to share learning,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Longitudinal Studies, Mixed Methods Research
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Buri, Olga Elizabeth Minchala; Stefos, Efstathios – International Education Studies, 2017
The objective of this study is to examine the social profile of students who are enrolled in Basic General Education in Ecuador. Both a descriptive and multidimensional statistical analysis was carried out based on the data provided by the National Survey of Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment in 2015. The descriptive analysis shows the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Profiles, Data Analysis, General Education
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Karagiannakis, Giannis N.; Baccaglini-Frank, Anna E.; Roussos, Petros – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2016
Through a review of the literature on mathematical learning disabilities (MLD) and low achievement in mathematics (LA) we have proposed a model classifying mathematical skills involved in learning mathematics into four domains (Core number, Memory, Reasoning, and Visual-spatial). In this paper we present a new experimental computer-based battery…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Mathematical Aptitude, Skill Analysis, Learning Disabilities
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Pulkka, Antti-Tuomas; Niemivirta, Markku – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2013
This study focused on the stability and change in students' achievement goal orientations and whether the students' perceptions of the learning environment vary as a function of their achievement goal orientations. Participants were 169 students of the Finnish National Defense University. The students' goal orientations and their evaluations of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Profiles, Goal Orientation, Student Attitudes
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Aber, J. Lawrence; Torrente, Catalina; Starkey, Leighann; Johnston, Brian; Seidman, Edward; Halpin, Peter; Shivshanker, Anjuli; Weisenhorn, Nina; Annan, Jeannie; Wolf, Sharon – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
This article examines the effects of one year of exposure to "Learning to Read in a Healing Classroom" (LRHC) on the reading and math skills of second- to fourth-grade children in the low-income and conflict-affected Democratic Republic of the Congo. LRHC consists of two primary components: teacher resource materials that infuse…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Vera, Maria; Salanova, Marisa; Martin, Beatriz – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2010
Introduction: The main aim of this study is to test whether different university faculty work profiles (i.e., teaching, research and management) relate with the experience of well-being at work (i.e., burnout, work engagement and intrinsic satisfaction). Method: Hypotheses were tested through a K-means cluster, ANOVA, and confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Burnout, Factor Analysis, Educational Psychology, Profiles
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Ayoubi, Rami M.; Massoud, Hiba K. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine the extent to which UK universities' achal international achievements match their strategic intent on internationalization. Design/methodology/approach: Both factor analysis and cluster analysis were applied on data collected from HESA (2001), and on the data collected from the mission statements…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Factor Analysis, Content Analysis, Global Approach
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Wolhuter, C. C. – Comparative Education Review, 1997
Discusses the lack of classification systems as a major deficiency in the field of comparative education. Examines previous typologies of education systems and of forms of intergroup relations. Offers a tentative classification of 135 national education systems based on 15 conventional indicators using factor analysis and cluster analysis.…
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Grouping, Comparative Education, Educational Indicators
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Stavenga de Jong, Jan A.; Wierstra, Ronny F. A.; Hermanussen, Jose – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Background: Research on individual learning approaches (or learning styles) is split in two traditions, one of which is biased towards academic learning, and the other towards learning from direct experience. Aims: In the reported study, the two traditions are linked by investigating the relationships between school-based (academic) and work-based…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Factor Analysis, Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship
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Pedder, David – Curriculum Journal, 2007
This article reports findings from a survey of the values and perceived practices of 1212 members of staff in 32 schools in England participating in the "Learning How to Learn" (LHTL) project in relation to teachers' professional learning. Through factor analysis four underlying dimensions of teachers' learning practices were developed.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Learning Strategies, Factor Analysis