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Xiaoyang Ye – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
This paper provides the first experimental evidence of how admission outcomes in centralized systems depend on strategic college choice behaviors. Centralized college admissions simplify the application process and reduce students' informational barriers. However, such systems also reward informed and strategic college choices. In particular,…
Descriptors: College Admission, College Choice, Educational Administration, Prediction
Cserjesi, Renata; van Braeckel, Koenraad N. J. A.; Timmerman, Marieke; Butcher, Phillipa R.; Kerstjens, Jorien M.; Reijneveld, Sijmen A.; Bouma, Anke; Bos, Arend F.; Geuze, Reint H. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2012
Aim: The aim of this study was to identify subgroups of children born moderately preterm (MPT) and term with distinctive levels and patterns of functioning, and the perinatal and demographic factors that predict subgroup membership. Method: A total of 378 children aged 7 years, 248 MPT (138 males, 110 females; gestational age 32-36 wks) and a…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Females, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
Perez Arce Novaro, Francisco – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This thesis consists of three essays in the economics of education with an empirical focus on Mexico. The first two chapters study a college in Mexico whose admission decisions are made through a lottery. Some applicants are randomly assigned into a group that can immediately enroll and the rest into a group that can only do so after waiting…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Expenditures, Economics, Outcomes of Education
Krishnamurthy, Janaki – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Given the increasing competition in the software industry and the critical consequences of software errors, it has become important for companies to achieve high levels of software quality. While cost reduction and timeliness of projects continue to be important measures, software companies are placing increasing attention on identifying the user…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Opinions, Privacy, Prediction
Jolly, Richard Donald – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Leveraging the knowledge of an organization is an ongoing challenge that has given rise to the field of knowledge management. Yet, despite spending enormous sums of organizational resources on Information Technology (IT) systems, executives recognize there is much more knowledge to harvest. Prediction markets are emerging as one tool to help…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Knowledge Management, Program Effectiveness, Prediction

Levy, Kenneth J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1978
Kaminsky and Nelson's method for estimating the times of future "success" from the times of earlier "successes" in the same sample is discussed in terms of its potential applications to long term psychological treatment, research, or training programs. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Guidance Programs, Prediction, Predictive Measurement

Jones, Molly M.; Jackson, Kirby L. – Journal of Early Intervention, 1992
This paper encourages the use of multiple logistic analysis in early intervention research, to assess the degree of association of multiple factors (such as subject or situational characteristics) with a dichotomous outcome (such as benefitting or not benefitting from an intervention) and to estimate the probability of each outcome. (JDD)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Multiple Regression Analysis, Prediction

Rossi, Robert J.; Wolman, Jean M. – Journal of Special Education, 1988
Project MAP (Model Accounting Plan) is a demographic accounting model for monitoring the transitions of special education students through the school system and after graduation. MAP predicts the students' paths, considering the student's age, handicap, and instructional setting. Discussed are a pilot test and the model's potential benefits and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation, Models