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O'Meara, Niamh; Prendergast, Mark; Treacy, Páraic – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
There is a body of research which highlights the importance of students studying mathematics at an advanced level, hence policy-makers worldwide look for ways to increase the uptake of advanced mathematics. In Ireland, the Government announced the introduction of a Bonus Points Initiative which came into effect in 2012, in an attempt to increase…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
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Xu, Chao; Peters, Michelle; Brown, Sue – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2020
Using data from 23 statistics instructors and 1,924 students across 11 post-secondary institutions in the United States, we employ multilevel covariate adjustment models to quantify the sizes of instructor and instructional effects on students' statistics attitudes. The analysis suggests that changes in students' statistics attitudes vary…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Statistics, Mathematics Instruction, Attitude Change
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Teresa M. Ober; Maxwell R. Hong; Matthew F. Carter; Alex S. Brodersen; Daniella Rebouças-Ju; Cheng Liu; Ying Cheng – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
We examined whether students were accurate in predicting their test performance in both low-stakes and high-stakes testing contexts. The sample comprised U.S. high school students enrolled in an advanced placement (AP) statistics course during the 2017-2018 academic year (N = 209; M[subscript age] = 16.6 years). We found that even two months…
Descriptors: High School Students, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Attitudes, High Stakes Tests
Teresa M. Ober; Maxwell R. Hong; Matthew F. Carter; Alex S. Brodersen; Daniella Rebouças-Ju; Cheng Liu; Ying Cheng – Grantee Submission, 2021
We examined whether students were accurate in predicting their test performance two testing contexts (low-stakes and high-stakes). The sample comprised U.S. high school students enrolled in an advanced placement (AP) statistics course during the 2017-2018 academic year (N=209; M[subscript age]=16.6 years). We found that even two months before…
Descriptors: High School Students, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Attitudes, High Stakes Tests
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Doman, Evelyn – Georgia Educational Researcher, 2014
Supplemental Instruction (SI) has widely been used in university classrooms around the world. However, many obstacles face SI -- including low student attendance, lack of faculty support, and recognition of today's online generation. This research helps to fill the gap in SI by posing to solve the problems mentioned above by extending SI into the…
Descriptors: Tutors, Supplementary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis