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Faculty Perceptions Regarding Authentication of Online Students' Identities and Academic Dishonesty
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McMillan, Stephanie Renee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explored undergraduate teaching faculty's perceptions regarding using biometric-based technologies to reduce academic dishonesty in online classes. The first objective was to develop a baseline of the respondents' concerns toward and experience with using biometrics; attitudes, experience, and mitigation strategies used to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Technology
Premature Discontinuation in Adult Psychotherapy: A Meta-Analysis
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Swift, Joshua K.; Greenberg, Roger P. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: Premature discontinuation from therapy is a widespread problem that impedes the delivery of otherwise effective psychological interventions. The most recent comprehensive review found an average dropout rate of 47% across 125 studies (Wierzbicki & Pekarik, 1993); however, given a number of changes in the field over the past 2 decades,…
Descriptors: Identification, Dropouts, Eating Disorders, Psychotherapy
Response to Intervention: An Interpretive Case Study of Educators' Perspectives on the Roles of School Culture, Personal Beliefs, and Program Knowledge on Implementation
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Ochieng-Sande, Beverly – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In education today there is a heightened emphasis on teacher accountability for improving student outcomes. The law requires that in order for a student to qualify as a student with a disability, the child's IEP team must ensure that the child's problem is not due to poor instructional programming. Therefore, the general education teacher is…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Case Studies, School Culture, Accountability
Using Realist Synthesis to Develop an Evidence Base from an Identified Data Set on Enablers and Barriers for Alcohol and Drug Program Implementation
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Hunter, Barbara; MacLean, Sarah; Berends, Lynda – Qualitative Report, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to show how "realist synthesis" methodology (Pawson, 2002) was adapted to review a large sample of community based projects addressing alcohol and drug use problems. Our study drew on a highly varied sample of 127 projects receiving funding from a national non-government organisation in Australia between 2002…
Descriptors: Evidence, Drug Use, Program Implementation, Foreign Countries
Evaluating the Validity of Computerized Content Analysis Programs for Identification of Emotional Expression in Cancer Narratives
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Bantum, Erin O'Carroll; Owen, Jason E. – Psychological Assessment, 2009
Psychological interventions provide linguistic data that are particularly useful for testing mechanisms of action and improving intervention methodologies. For this study, emotional expression in an Internet-based intervention for women with breast cancer (n = 63) was analyzed via rater coding and 2 computerized coding methods (Linguistic Inquiry…
Descriptors: Intervention, Computational Linguistics, Cancer, Validity
Replacing Voice Input with Technology that Provided Immediate Visual and Audio Feedback to Reduce Employee Errors
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Goomas, David T. – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2010
In this report from the field at two auto parts distribution centers, order selectors picked auto accessories (e.g., fuses, oil caps, tool kits) into industrial plastic totes as part of store orders. Accurately identifying all store order totes via the license plate number was a prerequisite for the warehouse management system (WMS) to track each…
Descriptors: Manufacturing, Motor Vehicles, Equipment, Facilities