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Online Courses Assessment through Measuring and Archetyping of Usage Data
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Kazanidis, Ioannis; Theodosiou, Theodosios; Petasakis, Ioannis; Valsamidis, Stavros – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Database files and additional log files of Learning Management Systems (LMSs) contain an enormous volume of data which usually remain unexploited. A new methodology is proposed in order to analyse these data both on the level of both the courses and the learners. Specifically, "regression analysis" is proposed as a first step in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Course Evaluation, Electronic Learning
Evaluating and Recommending Greek Newspapers' Websites Using Clustering
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Kanellopoulos, Dimitris; Kotsiantis, Sotiris – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: The aim of this work is to evaluate Greek newspaper websites using clustering and a number of criteria obtained from the Alexa search engine. Furthermore, a recommendation approach is proposed for matching Greek online newspapers with the profiles of potential readers. The paper presents the implementation and validation of a recommender…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Foreign Countries, Internet, Newspapers
Affordances and Constraints of Using the Socio-Political Debate for Authentic Summative Assessment
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Anker-Hansen, Jens; Andrée, Maria – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This article reports from an empirical study on the affordances and constraints for using staged socio-political debates for authentic summative assessment of scientific literacy. The article focuses on conditions for student participation and what purposes emerge in student interaction in a socio-political debate. As part of the research project,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affordances, Debate, Social Problems
Dilemmas in Democratic Evaluation: Politics and Validation.
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McTaggart, Robin – 1990
Evaluation affects the people who participate and the situation studied, and there is no guarantee that the effects will be democratic, constructive, or equitable. A case study illustrates that even the most scrupulous attention to ethical principles and procedures for the release of information cannot always protect the interests of participants…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Democratic Values, Disclosure, Elementary Secondary Education
Internet Addiction among High Schoolers in Taiwan.
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Lin, Sunny S. J.; Tsai, Chin-Chung – 1999
The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable and valid measurement for the identification of Internet addictive high school students. There were 615 subjects selected by a stratified sampling from the population of Taiwanese 10th to 12th graders. The final version of the Internet Addiction Scale for Taiwan High Schoolers (IAST) contained 20…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, High School Students
Using Training Indicators To Improve Planning for Vocational Education and Training.
Saunders, S. – 2001
Training indicators are functional suites of quantitative and qualitative indicators of current or future vocational education and training (VET) supply and demand. The training indicators approach to educational planning considers indicators of present and likely future conditions for skilled labor and forms judgments about the most appropriate…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Benchmarking, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis