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Direct linkRetelsdorf, Jan; Becker, Michael; Koller, Olaf; Moller, Jens – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Background: Assigning students to different school tracks on the basis of their achievement levels is a widely used strategy that aims at giving students the best possible learning opportunity. There is, however, a growing body of literature that questions such positive effects of tracking. Aims: This study compared the developmental trajectories…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Vocational Education, Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries
Download full textRafferty, Anna N., Ed.; Whitehill, Jacob, Ed.; Romero, Cristobal, Ed.; Cavalli-Sforza, Violetta, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
The 13th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2020) was originally arranged to take place in Ifrane, Morocco. Due to the SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) epidemic, EDM 2020, as well as most other academic conferences in 2020, had to be changed to a purely online format. To facilitate efficient transmission of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Teaching Methods, Information Retrieval, Data Processing
Peer reviewedMulling, Sylvia – College ESL, 1994
Studies whether giving English-as-a-Second-Language college students practice in comprehension monitoring would improve their reading comprehension. Statistically equivalent pairs of subjects were formed. Five articles from daily newspapers were read by participants, who then took a quiz measuring their comprehension of article content. Results…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Collection, English (Second Language), Higher Education
Peer reviewedJacobs, George M. – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1994
Studies the effect of vocabulary glossing on reading comprehension in second-language learning. Findings reveal that there was a significant effect for glossing but no significant interactions between the treatment and any of the other variables, i.e., psychological type, tolerance of ambiguity, proficiency, frequency of gloss use, perceived value…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, College Students, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Peer reviewedVogely, Anita – Modern Language Journal, 1995
Examines strategies students use while performing a listening comprehension task and the relationship between strategy use and listening ability. Eighty-three students registered for first-, second-, third-, and fourth-semester Spanish participated. The first-semester students scored the highest and the second-semester students, the lowest on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection
Peer reviewedBlock, Ellen – TESOL Quarterly, 1992
Illustrates the comprehension-monitoring process used by first (L1) and second (L2) language readers of English as they read expository prose and compares the comprehension-monitoring strategies of L1 and L2 readers with respect to two problems: locating a referent and defining a vocabulary item. (59 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedOded, Brenda; Stavans, Anat – System, 1994
Examines the effects of an imposed schema on the reader's comprehension of a text. Both a correct and a false schema were imposed on the subjects in the form of comprehension questions geared to one of two points of view. Subjects were 177 English-as-a-foreign-language university students. The implications for teachers of reading comprehension are…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Data Collection, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedBrown, Steven – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1997
Compared "read schema activation," in which one group of Japanese women college students of English as a Second Language read a whole text related to the target text; and "written schema activation," in which a second group wrote about the topic of the target text. A control group read the target text twice. There were no…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Control Groups, Data Collection
