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Modeling the Participation in Physical Exercises by University Academic Community in Sri Lanka
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Sisira Kumara, Ajantha; Sachitra, Vilani – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: The World Health Organization issued its global action plan on physical activities 2018-2030, emphasizing the importance of context-specific evidence on the subject. Accordingly, this study aims to provide unique and important policy insights on trends and drivers of participation in physical exercises by academic community in Sri Lankan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Higher Education
Sociodemographic Diversity and Distance Education: Who Drops out from Academic Programs and Why?
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Stoessel, Katharina; Ihme, Toni A.; Barbarino, Maria-Luisa; Fisseler, Björn; Stürmer, Stefan – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Current higher education is characterized by a proliferation of distance education programs and by an increasing inclusion of nontraditional students. In this study we investigated whether and to what extent nontraditional students are particularly at risk for attrition (vs. graduating) from distance education programs. We conducted a secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Distance Education, Nontraditional Students
Children's Judgments of Expected Value.
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Schlottmann, Anne; Anderson, Norman H. – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Expected value judgments of 5- through 10-year-olds were studied by having children view roulette-type games and make judgments of how happy a puppet playing the game would be. Even the youngest children showed some understanding of probability dependence, with children under eight using an additive integration rule and children eight and older…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Elementary Education
Emergent Understanding and Attribution of Randomness: Comparative Analysis of the Reasoning of Primary Grade Children and Undergraduates.
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Metz, Kathleen E. – Cognition and Instruction, 1998
Compared kindergartners', third graders', and undergraduates' understanding and attribution of randomness. Found that kindergartners' interpretations were deterministic or outside the determinancy-indeterminancy frame. Most third graders had some grasp of randomness; their interpretations were less dominated by false attribution of determinism…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Testing Piaget's Theory of Probability Concept Development: A Bayesian Approach Using the Theory of Signal Detection.
Phillips, Gary W.; Grodsky, Milton – 1985
The decision making processes of children in a probabilistic environment were studied within the context of the theory of signal detection (TSD). The relationship between the age of the child and his ability to revise decision criteria was examined, as well as the appropriateness of TSD measures and methodology with children. It was hypothesized…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bayesian Statistics, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
Response Latency: An Investigation into Determinants of Item-Level Timing.
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Parshall, Cynthia G.; And Others – 1994
Response latency information has been used in the past to provide information for consideration along with response accuracy when obtaining trait level estimates, and more recently, to flag unusual response patterns, to establish appropriate time-to-test limits (Reese, 1993), and to determine predictors of the amount of time needed to administer a…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Age Differences, Classification