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Gontzis, Andreas F.; Kotsiantis, Sotiris; Panagiotakopoulos, Christos T.; Verykios, Vassilios S. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
Attrition is one of the main concerns in distance learning due to the impact on the incomes and institutions reputation. Timely identification of students at risk has high practical value in effective students' retention services. Big Data mining and machine learning methods are applied to manipulate, analyze and predict students' failure,…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, Distance Education, At Risk Students, Achievement
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Gkontzis, Andreas F.; Kotsiantis, Sotiris; Panagiotakopoulos, Christos T.; Verykios, Vassilios S. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
Attrition is one of the main concerns in distance learning due to the impact on the incomes and institutions reputation. Timely identification of students at risk has high practical value in effective students' retention services. Big Data mining and machine learning methods are applied to manipulate, analyze, and predict students' failure,…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, Distance Education, At Risk Students, Achievement
Kidd, Julie K.; McKnight, Patrick E.; Gallington, Debbie A.; Strauss, Lauren I.; Lyu, Hao; Lauritzen, Hans Christian; Choe, Jihyae; Holmberg, Courtney A.; Pasnak, Robert – Grantee Submission, 2021
Cognitive abilities, executive functions (EFs) and patterning, and simple measures of early literacy and mathematics were measured for 275 kindergartners during the second and third month of formal schooling. An exploratory factor analysis revealed four factors. The first was a literacy factor, to which a number series scale made a small…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Reading Skills, Cognitive Ability, Kindergarten
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Stolpe, Karin; Bjorklund, Lars – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
This study aims to investigate two expert ecology teachers' ability to attend to essential details in a complex environment during a field excursion, as well as how they teach this ability to their students. In applying a cognitive dual-memory system model for learning, we also suggest a rationale for their behaviour. The model implies two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Holistic Approach, Familiarity
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Watson, F. R. – Mathematics in School, 1978
Conjecture and proof, as opposed to numerical calculation, are presented as being the primary focus for teaching mathematics. (MP)
Descriptors: Achievement, Computation, Concept Formation, Discovery Learning