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Adeyemi, Abisola Moradeyo; Adeyemi, Semiu Babatunde – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
Educational stakeholders have continued to express concerns over the poor academic performance of Nigerian students at virtually all levels of academic engagements. This paper investigated personal factors as predictors of students' academic performance in the South-Western Nigeria. The study employed the ex post facto design using a survey design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sampling, Psychometrics, Low Achievement
Gallagher, Kevin P. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study's focus was to examine the impact of learning style on learning outcomes in an Interactive Multimedia Instruction program (IMI). The literature review emphasizes that incorporating technology alone does not ensure positive gains in an educational initiative. It also identified a number of factors that may influence how students will…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Cognitive Style, Familiarity, Hypermedia
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Silvia, Suyapa; Blitstein, Jonathan; Williams, Jason; Ringwalt, Chris; Dusenbury, Linda; Hansen, William – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2010
This is the first of two reports that summarize the findings from an impact evaluation of a violence prevention intervention for middle schools. This report discusses findings after 1 year of implementation. A forthcoming report will discuss the findings after 2 years and 3 years of implementation. In 2004, the U.S. Department of Education (ED)…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Violence, Prevention, Intervention
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Pearse, R. – International Review of Education, 1977
This study, based on a survey of rural families in several provinces in Indonesia, is an attempt to search for variables, and combinations of variables, that predict the actual utilization of schooling by individual families. Suggests these useful predictors: family characteristics, family economic status, family orientation toward education.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Family Attitudes, Family Characteristics, Multiple Regression Analysis
St. Pierre, Robert G.; Proper, Elizabeth C. – 1976
A general interest in attrition, or loss of units from a study, stems in part from the observation that the infrequency of attention to attrition exacerbates problems of data interpretation. As a substudy of the national evaluation of Project Follow Through, the potential biasing effects of attrition of subjects from the sites were investigated.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Attrition (Research Studies), Compensatory Education, Data Collection
Rim, Eui-Do; Coller, Alan R. – 1978
A broad spectrum of methodologies pertinent to studies of schooling effects are reviewed. Methodological issues and problems are addressed according to a three-dimensional conceptual framework: (1) indicators of schooling effects; (2) study approaches; and (3) units of analysis. Problems and uses of status attainment and difference scores as…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Educational Research