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Fulya Kula; Nelly Litvak; Tracy S. Craig – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
The sample mean in statistics is a concept of great importance, with its properties being extensively utilized in other areas, such as computer science. This research centers on the concept of the sample mean and its characteristics in a cohort of computer engineering students undertaking a required course in statistics at a university in the…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Engineering Education, Learning Processes, Statistics
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Nyame, Faustina; Alhassan, Ibrahim; Alhassan, Abukari – Higher Education Studies, 2019
This paper examines students' perception of the impact of lecturers' ranks on their performance across departments in the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences (FMS) of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Navrongo Campus. The study used a self-designed structured questionnaire administered to 160 respondents (students) of the Faculty. All the…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Student Attitudes, Instructional Effectiveness, College Faculty
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Guzman, Laura Melissa; Pennell, Matthew W.; Nikelski, Ellen; Srivastava, Diane S. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2019
Biostatistics courses are integral to many undergraduate biology programs. Such courses have often been taught using point-and-click software, but these programs are now seldom used by researchers or professional biologists. Instead, biology professionals typically use programming languages, such as R, which are better suited to analyzing complex…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Statistics, Biology, College Science
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Ghilay, Yaron – Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
The aim of the study was to examine the effectiveness of a model called Video-Based Learning (VBL). VBL is designed to improve the learning of higher education courses, especially those based on activities performed on a computer screen, or learning related to the understanding of visual objects, such as formulas, equations, diagrams, etc. The…
Descriptors: Interactive Video, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Soboleva, Elena V. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
The problem of the research is due to the need to realize the didactic and interdisciplinary potential of mobile applications which are able to support the quest technology. Teachers have to understand peculiarities of organizing such a game form of activity in a digital school. The purpose of the study is to theoretically prove and experimentally…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Information Technology, Technology Integration, Telecommunications
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Saher, Ummara; Hussain Ch., Abid – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2019
The study aimed to compare the level of self-perceived employability of public and private sector university graduates. It was a descriptive and cross sectional survey. Population of the study was university graduating students enrolled in final year/ semester. Multi-stage purposive sampling was used to collect data from ten universities; five…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Employment Potential, College Graduates, Universities
Trapani, Josh; Hale, Katherine – National Science Foundation, 2019
The report provides a portrait of science and engineering (S&E) higher education in the United States, including trends over time and comparisons with other nations. S&E fields, as defined in this report, include astronomy, chemistry, physics, atmospheric sciences, earth sciences, ocean sciences, mathematics and statistics, computer…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Indicators, Psychology, Biological Sciences
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Lavesson, N. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
This correspondence reports on a case study conducted in the Master's-level Machine Learning (ML) course at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. The students participated in a self-assessment test and a diagnostic test of prerequisite subjects, and their results on these tests are correlated with their achievement of the course's learning…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Diagnostic Tests, Foreign Countries, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2011
For the thirty-fourth year, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Jacksonville, FL. A limited quantity of these Proceedings were printed and sold in both hardcopy and electronic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Educational Technology, Conference Papers
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2015-END 2015, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 27 to 29 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends