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Evens, Marie; Verburgh, An; Elen, Jan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Critical thinking helps students to confront a multitude of challenges they will face in their careers and personal lives. It is therefore an important task of higher education to promote students' critical thinking. However, students do not enter higher education with a blank page. Background characteristics of students are important in…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, College Freshmen, Test Items, Test Format
Quadri, Lekan Kamil – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Researchers have concluded that Web 2.0 technologies offered many educational benefits. However, many secondary teachers in a large northwestern school district were not using Web 2.0 tools in spite of its possibilities for teaching and learning. The purpose of this quantitative correlational research was to explore the relationships between the…
Descriptors: Researchers, Web 2.0 Technologies, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary Education
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Adams, Dolly L. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2009
Effective leadership in public schools includes, but is not limited to being able to communicate goals, set expectations, monitor instructional progress, coordinate the curriculum, and supervise and evaluate faculty (Snowden & Gorton, 2002). All of these leadership skills are driven by a need for leaders to build collaborative rapport and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Theories, Leadership Styles, Public Schools
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Clement, Catherine A.; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1986
A study of correlations between analogical reasoning and Logo programming mastery among female high school students related the results of pretests of analogical reasoning to posttests of programming mastery. A significant correlation was found between analogical reasoning and the ability to write subprocedures for use in several different…
Descriptors: Analogy, Cognitive Tests, Correlation, Females
Kromrey, Jeffrey D.; And Others – 1991
Nineteen secondary school teachers in a mid-sized Florida school district participated in a single-group pretest/posttest design to explore the relationship between essential and higher order teaching skills. Correlations between two sets of teacher performance variables were computed before and after training in teaching for higher order thinking…
Descriptors: Correlation, Performance Factors, Postsecondary Education, Pretests Posttests
Yoder, Benjamin Arthur – 1978
The purposes of this study were to determine the effects of previous training in agricultural mechanics upon achievement of students enrolled in a college level agricultural mechanics course and to determine factors that affect performance in this course of basic metals and welding. Students enrolled in the course during the fall and winter…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, College Students
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Belanger, Joe; Martin, R. Glenn – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1984
Four experimental reading-treatment classes (n=94) and four control classes (n=100) wrote pre- and post-compositions which were evaluated for overall quality, syntactic density, T-unit length, productivity, and selected grammatical errors. Analysis of results found significant differences in reading skills but no differences in writing skills. The…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Grade 10, Grade 9
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Meijer, Joost – Curriculum Journal, 2007
This article gives a description of three analyses concerning the construct learning to learn and the assessment of cross-curricular skills. First, the correspondence between learning to learn and cross-curricular skills is examined by means of a theoretical content analysis. Second, the nature of cross-curricular skills is studied through a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Statistical Analysis, Intelligence