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Neroni, Joyce; Meijs, Celeste; Leontjevas, Ruslan; Kirschner, Paul A.; de Groot, Renate H. M. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Research has shown the importance of goal orientation in predicting academic performance for children, adolescents, and college students in traditional educational settings. Studies on this relationship within adult distance education, however, are lacking. To fill this gap, the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Distance Education, Adult Education
Graham, Deborah J. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This nonexperimental quantitative correlation study examined relationships between select special education and standardized testing variables for a purposive homogeneous sample of Arizona secondary school districts with Native American populations, and the archival records for students with disabilities postsecondary outcomes between 2012 and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, American Indian Students
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Shadish, William R.; Galindo, Rodolfo; Wong, Vivian C.; Steiner, Peter M.; Cook, Thomas D. – Psychological Methods, 2011
In this article, we review past studies comparing randomized experiments to regression discontinuity designs, mostly finding similar results, but with significant exceptions. The latter might be due to potential confounds of study characteristics with assignment method or with failure to estimate the same parameter over methods. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Experiments, Comparative Analysis, Nonparametric Statistics
Hershbein, Brad J.; Hollenbeck, Kevin – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2013
Despite tremendous recent interest in the subject of student debt by both researchers and policy makers, little is known about how the distribution of college graduate debt has been evolving and what factors can explain it. We use National Postsecondary Student Aid Study data from 1990 through 2008 to document the evolution of college graduate…
Descriptors: College Students, College Graduates, Debt (Financial), Loan Default
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Moss, Brian G.; Yeaton, William H.; Lloyd, Jane E. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2014
Using a novel design approach, a randomized experiment (RE) was embedded within a regression discontinuity (RD) design (R-RE-D) to evaluate the impact of developmental mathematics at a large midwestern college ("n" = 2,122). Within a region of uncertainty near the cut-score, estimates of benefit from a prospective RE were closely…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Developmental Programs, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
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Warnock, Stuart H.; Boykin, Nancy J.; Tung, Wei Chih – Journal of Research in Education, 2011
Literature on educational technology touts its potential for enhancing student outcomes such as learning, satisfaction, and performance. But are these benefits universal and do they apply to all applications and/or forms of educational technology? This study focuses on one such system, the Smart Board Technology System (SBTS) and the impact its…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Student Satisfaction, Student Attitudes