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Vinay Kumar Yadav; Shakti Prasad – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2024
In sample survey analysis, accurate population mean estimation is an important task, but traditional approaches frequently ignore the intricacies of real-world data, leading to biassed results. In order to handle uncertainties, indeterminacies, and ambiguity, this work presents an innovative approach based on neutrosophic statistics. We proposed…
Descriptors: Sampling, Statistical Bias, Predictor Variables, Predictive Measurement
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Kosei Fukuda – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2024
In statistics classes, the central limit theorem has been demonstrated using simulation-based illustrations. Known population distributions such as a uniform or exponential distribution are often used to consider the behavior of the sample mean in simulated samples. Unlike such simulations, a number of real-data-based simulations are here…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business, Business Administration Education, Sample Size
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Horta, Hugo; Cattaneo, Mattia; Meoli, Michele – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This article focuses on the effects of PhD funding on research performance both during the degree and throughout researchers' careers as measured through publications and citations. This analysis draws from a representative sample of researchers holding a doctorate based in Portugal and finds that those funded by grants during the PhD perform…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Financial Support, Predictor Variables, Grants
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Alaca, Eray – European Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the postgraduate theses that focused on history textbooks between 1989 and 2017 in Turkey. The population was composed of 126 postgraduate theses (master's and doctoral) which were obtained from Thesis Center of Higher Education Council (HEC), Republic of Turkey. The document review method was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Textbook Evaluation, Theses
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Tolulope, Akano – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2017
Libraries before the 21st century carried out daily routine library task such as cataloguing and classification, acquisition, reference services etc using manual procedures only but the advent of Information Technology as transformed these routine task that libraries can now automate their activities by deploying the use of library software in…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Demography, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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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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Akcoltekin, Alpturk – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This study aimed to determine the opinions of high school students relating to time management and present a correlation of their time management skills with demographic variables, as well as examining the relation between their level of research anxiety and time management skills. The study group composed 270 12th-grade students (127 males and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time Management, Student Attitudes, Correlation
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Jalali, Zohreh; Heidari, Alireza – International Education Studies, 2016
The research aimed to investigate the relationship between happiness, subjective well-being, creativity and job performance of primary school teachers in Ramhormoz City. Hence, a sample of 330 individuals was selected through random stratified sampling. The research tools included Oxford Happiness Inventory, Subjective Well-being Scale by Keyes…
Descriptors: Well Being, Creativity, Job Performance, Elementary School Teachers
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Shearer, David A.; Kilduff, Liam P.; Finn, Charlotte; Jones, Rhys M.; Bracken, Richard M.; Mellalieu, Stephen D.; Owen, Nic; Crewther, Blair T.; Cook, Christian J. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2015
Purpose: There is demand in applied sport settings to measure recovery briefly and accurately. Research indicates mood disturbance as the strongest psychological predictor of mental and physical recovery. The Brief Assessment of Mood (BAM) is a shortened version of the Profile of Mood States that can be completed in less than 30 s. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Team Sports, Psychological Patterns, Measures (Individuals)
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Ederer, Peer; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Patt, Alexander; Castellazzi, Silvia – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2015
We estimate the market value that employers assign to the complex problem solving (CPS) skills of their employees, using individual-level Mincer-style wage regressions. For the purpose of the study, we collected new and unique data using psychometric measures of CPS and an extensive background questionnaire on employees' personal and work history.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Participative Decision Making, Employers, Wages
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Bedel, Emine Ferda – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
This study is designed to explore academic motivation, academic self-efficacy and attitudes toward teaching in pre-service early childhood education teachers and to investigate the relationships among those variables. Data were gathered through questionnaires administered to 251 pre-service early childhood education teachers. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Motivation, Self Efficacy
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Nag, Sonali; Snowling, Margaret; Quinlan, Philip; Hulme, Charles – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
In Kannada, visual features are arranged in blocks called "akshara," making this a visually more complex writing system than typical alphabetic orthographies. Akshara knowledge was assessed concurrently and 8 months later in 113 children in the first years of reading instruction (aged 4-7 years). Mixed effects logistic regression models…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols, Regression (Statistics)
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Abaspour, Nafiseh; Nowrozi, Reza Ali; Latifi, Zohreh – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of educating philosophy curriculum in the children on the spiritual development of female students with 12-14 years old in the city of Isfahan. The present study is a semi-experiment research. The research design is pretest-posttest research with experiment and control group. In order to select…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Pretests Posttests, Control Groups
Nakamura, Pooja; de Hoop, Thomas – American Institutes for Research, 2014
Most of the world is multilingual--multilingual at the national level (policies), at the community and family level (practices), and at the individual level (cognitive)--and each of these has implications for teaching and learning. Yet, at present, most reading decisions are not based on empirical research of how children learn to read in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Reading Skills, Reading Tests
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Frostad, Per; Pijl, Sip Jan; Mjaavatn, Per Egil – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Early school leaving in upper secondary education is a serious problem for both students and society. Several reviews have shown that there is no simple cause of early school leaving, but it seems to relate to demographic variables, social factors, academic achievement, and school factors. In this study, data from 2,045 students aged 16 from upper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Secondary School Students, Regression (Statistics)
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