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Acevedo, Fernando – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2023
In the last 40 years in much of the western world dropout rates in higher education have remained almost unchanged. Although student retention seems to be the most studied and discussed aspect, nearly every empirical study on the causes of dropout in higher education and even more the impact of retention actions carried out by universities, in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Foreign Countries
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Markus Gangl – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
Rating scales are ubiquitous in the social sciences, yet may present practical difficulties when response formats change over time or vary across surveys. To allow researchers to pool rating data across alternative question formats, the article provides a generalization of the ordered logit model that accommodates multiple scale formats in the…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Surveys, Responses, Models
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Tóth, Ágnes N.; Szivák, Judit – International Journal of Instruction, 2022
There is no generally accepted model for the continuous professional development of teachers (CPD). Different education policies in different countries reflect the implementation of different practices, although the goal is the same: to improve the quality of education. The reasonable goal of this study is to contribute with an editable and…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Faculty Development, Career Development, Models
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Büyükkidik, Serap – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2022
The Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) and the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) are large-scale measurements about teaching and learning. There is a link between TALIS indicators and PISA results. We investigated which countries are effective according to TALIS indicators as inputs and PISA 2015 mathematics,…
Descriptors: Administrator Surveys, Teacher Surveys, International Assessment, Achievement Tests
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Julia Meisters; Adrian Hoffmann; Jochen Musch – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Indirect questioning techniques such as the randomized response technique aim to control social desirability bias in surveys of sensitive topics. To improve upon previous indirect questioning techniques, we propose the new Cheating Detection Triangular Model. Similar to the Cheating Detection Model, it includes a mechanism for detecting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, Adults, Cheating
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Diana Kirk; Andrew Luxton-Reilly; Ewan Tempero – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2025
Objectives: Code style is an important aspect of text-based programming because programs written with good style are considered easier to understand and change and so improve the maintainability of the delivered software product. However teaching code style is complicated by the existence of many style guides and standards that contain…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
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Aizpurua, Eva; Bottoni, Gianmaria; Fitzgerald, Rory – Field Methods, 2023
Despite the widespread use of examples in survey questions, very few studies have examined their impact on survey responses, and the evidence is mainly based on data collected in the United States using questionnaires in English. This study builds on previous research by examining the effects of providing examples using data from a cross-national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Surveys, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Test Items
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Jian-Hong Ye; Mengmeng Zhang; Weiguaju Nong; Li Wang; Xiantong Yang – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
ChatGPT, as an example of generative artificial intelligence, possesses high-level conversational and problem-solving capabilities supported by powerful computational models and big data. However, the powerful performance of ChatGPT might enhance learner dependency. Although it has not yet been confirmed, many teachers and scholars are also…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, College Students, Problem Solving, Student Attitudes
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Bai, Xuemei; Gu, Xiaoqing; Guo, Rifa – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This study aimed to verify the applicability of the community of inquiry (CoI) survey instrument in MOOC involving 1,186 college students from 11 different disciplines in China. Exploratory factor analysis was used to explore potential factor structure models, and confirmatory factor analysis was utilized to verify the four-factor structure…
Descriptors: Models, Audits (Verification), Construct Validity, Communities of Practice
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Rathnasekara, Kushan; Suraweera, Namali; Yatigammana, Kaushalya – Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2023
Purpose: The paper aims to clarify the relationship between perceived contextual issues and the self-efficacy beliefs of the employees with e-learning engagement for their competency development. It proposes a model for the banks to utilize their e-learning interventions more effectively by managing the identified contextual issues.…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Banking, Employee Attitudes, Social Cognition
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Li, Grace; Lesperance, Mary; Wu, Zheng – Sociological Methods & Research, 2022
The Cox proportional hazards model has been pervasively used in many social science areas to examine the effects of covariates on timing to an event. The standard Cox model is intended to study univariate survival data where there is a singular event of interest, which can only be experienced once. However, we may additionally wish to explore a…
Descriptors: Models, Social Science Research, Innovation, Evaluation Methods
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Ratib Lekhal; May-Britt Drugli; Lisa Karlsen; Stian Lydersen; Elisabet Solheim Buøen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This study examined the effectiveness of the "Thrive by Three" intervention for 1- to 3-year-old's language development. Data from 78 childcare centres, 187 toddler classrooms, and 1561 children (91.4% native Norwegian) were included. Results revealed that children in the intervention group had slightly steeper language development than…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Care Centers, Language Skills, Language Acquisition
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Liebe, Ulf; Mariel, Petr; Beyer, Heiko; Meyerhoff, Jürgen – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
Multifactorial survey experiments such as stated choice experiments are used more and more frequently in social science research. In this article, based on an experimental study on ethical and political consumption, we explore the potential of hybrid choice models to explicitly model latent psychological factors such as attitudes, overcoming a…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Preferences, Behavior, Surveys
Sanders, Ben – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2018
The National Student Outcomes Survey (SOS) collects information about students who completed their vocational education and training (VET) in the previous calendar year. The gathered information on the surveyed VET students includes their reasons for training, employment outcomes, satisfaction with training, and further study outcomes. The survey…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Outcome Measures, Student Surveys, National Surveys
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Yixin Chen; Jingjin Shao; Zhi Wang – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Background: Relational victimization (RV) is a significant threat to adolescent mental health and social adaptation in China. However, its developmental characteristics during the school transition period are poorly understood. Finkelhor's developmental victimology framework provides a comprehensive lens to explore factors influencing RV's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Victims, Behavior Problems, Longitudinal Studies
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