NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Mellody, Maureen – National Academies Press, 2014
As the availability of high-throughput data-collection technologies, such as information-sensing mobile devices, remote sensing, internet log records, and wireless sensor networks has grown, science, engineering, and business have rapidly transitioned from striving to develop information from scant data to a situation in which the challenge is now…
Descriptors: Workshops, Training, Competence, Data Collection
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Schultheis, Elizabeth H.; Kjelvik, Melissa K. – American Biology Teacher, 2015
Current educational reform calls for increased integration between science and mathematics to overcome the shortcomings in students' quantitative skills. Data Nuggets (free online resource, http://datanuggets.org) are worksheets that bring data into the classroom, repeatedly guiding students through the scientific method and making claims…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Science Process Skills, Educational Change, Statistical Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Claxton, David B. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2009
As physical education programs are required to be more accountable in demonstrating the positive benefits they provide for their students, it becomes more important for physical educators to be able to provide evidence that their students are changing in positive ways. Assessment is an integral part of the teaching/learning cycle. Teaching is…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Fitness, Program Effectiveness, Physical Education Teachers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Chapel, David – Social Studies Review, 1995
Maintains that few statistical representations are as tenuous as public opinion. Maintains that social studies students need to be taught to analyze statistical data carefully. Presents and discusses four guidelines for students reviewing statistical information. (CFR)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Citizenship Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematics Instruction
ARZIGIAN, SIMON – 1967
A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION WAS MADE OF THE FEASIBILITY OF COMPUTING COSTS OF ON-THE-JOB TRAINING FOR ENLISTED MEN NEEDED TO BRING THEM TO THE "JOURNEYMAN" LEVEL. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY, ON-THE-JOB TRAINING INVOLVES LEARNING OR IMPROVING JOB PERFORMANCE UNDER ACTUAL WORKING CONDITIONS. AT PRESENT THERE IS NO SYSTEM WITHIN THE NAVY TO "COST…
Descriptors: Administration, Cost Estimates, Employment Level, Enlisted Personnel
Hallett, Deborah Hughes – 2000
Decision makers have always relied on a mixture of qualitative and quantitative information. Recently, two technological tools--spreadsheets and the Internet--have dramatically altered how decision makers analyze quantitative information, thus necessitating curriculum changes in programs to prepare students to use these tools effectively. Harvard…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Business Administration Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education