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Nagengast, Benjamin; Brisson, Brigitte M.; Hulleman, Chris S.; Gaspard, Hanna; Häfner, Isabelle; Trautwein, Ulrich – Journal of Experimental Education, 2018
An emerging literature demonstrates that relevance interventions, which ask students to produce written reflections on how what they are learning relates to their lives, improve student learning outcomes. As part of a randomized evaluation of a relevance intervention (N = 1,978 students from 82 ninth-grade classes), we used Complier Average Causal…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Intervention, Relevance (Education), Reflection
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Malechwanzi, J. Muthiani; Lei, Hongde; Wang, Lu – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This study aims to investigate whether there is significant relationship between students' perceived faculty competencies and faculty evaluated competencies. The study identified four main dimensions for measuring faculty competencies namely: teaching, research, additional services and advising. This study adopted a mixed method design. The study…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Competency Testing
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Mintrom, Michael – Cogent Education, 2014
Research findings on effective support for learning, the development of expertise, and the psychology of success suggest that the pursuit of excellence is teachable. Within the emerging field of research and practice termed "the scholarship of teaching and learning," considerable effort has been made to document the practices of teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Research, Outcomes of Education, Graduate Students
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Yamada, Reiko – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2014
Ensuring gains in the learning outcomes of college students has become a major concern for Japanese higher education institutions. In recent decades, national and public as well as private universities have been forced to embed learning outcomes into their curriculum. A number of studies have shown that the learning outcomes of students are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Pedhazur, Elazar J. – New York University Education Quarterly, 1973
The purpose of this paper is to outline and critically evaluate some major aspects of the research on teacher attitudes. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Educational Research, Guidelines
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Todman, John; Lawrenson, Helen – British Educational Research Journal, 1992
Presents the results of a United Kingdom study comparing computer anxiety, mathematics anxiety, and computer experience among college students and elementary students. Includes discussion of age, sex, and the relationship between anxiety and experience. Reports that the younger children had higher computer experience and less computer anxiety.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computers, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Hensley, Thomas R.; Sell, Deborah K. – Teaching Political Science, 1979
Statistically examines the impact of an overseas political science program on student attitudes about world-mindedness, support for the United Nations, self-esteem, and tolerance of ambiguity. A substantial degree of change occurred only on the self-esteem variable. (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Attitude Change, Educational Research, Global Approach
Keeves, J. P. – 1974
In a study of factors in the educational environment of the home, the school, and the peer group contributing to achievement and attitudes towards schooling at the upper primary and lower secondary school levels, an opportunity arose to examine the data available for configural and curvilinear relationships. Information was collected on 11…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
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Griswold, Philip A. – AEDS Journal, 1985
This study evaluated the degree to which college major (education or business) and student individual differences (sex, age, mathematics ability, and locus of control) are related to attitudes about computers. Results indicate education majors have less favorable attitudes about computers than business majors even with individual differences taken…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy
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Sharp, Stephen – Educational Studies, 1996
Summarizes an experiment that expanded the types of variables and approaches used in statistical analyses of subject attainment in secondary education. The experiment compared students' grades in a given subject with their expected grades based on performance in other subjects. Considers applications and limitations to this approach. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Courses, Educational Administration, Educational Research
Daellenbach, Lawrence A.; And Others – 1977
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of computer assisted instruction (CAI) on the cognitive and affective development of college students enrolled in a principles of macroeconomics course. The hypotheses of the experiment were stated as follows: In relation to the traditional principles course, the experimental treatment will…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction
Wahlstrom, Darryl A. – 2001
A study investigated 210 secondary vocational/technical education students' cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses to a skill assessment process. Students received feedback on their skill strengths and weaknesses and those skills in which they over- or under-estimated their abilities. Results from hierarchical multiple regression indicated…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Behavior Development, Cognitive Structures, Competence
Craig, Eleanor D.; And Others – 1977
The paper discusses an experiment in which regression analysis was used to examine predictors of information retention following a college economics course. It was hypothesized that students taught in small classes with self-instructional materials would place a higher value on basic economic concepts and retain these concepts longer than students…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Class Size, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis
Ainley, John; And Others – 1986
The study reported in this monograph, which was conducted jointly by the Australian Council for Educational Research and the Education Department of Victoria, investigated the organization and curriculum of government secondary schools in Victoria, Australia, and how those factors influence what teachers do and what views students have of the…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Curriculum Evaluation, Decision Making, Educational Environment