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Cheng, Albert; Zamarro, Gema; Orriens, Bart – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
Unit nonresponse in panel data sets is often a source of bias. Why certain individuals attrite from longitudinal studies and how to minimize this phenomenon have been examined by researchers. However, this research has typically focused on data sets collected via telephone, postal mail, or face-to-face interviews. Moreover, this research usually…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Internet, Surveys
Huebner, Richard A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The ubiquity of data in various forms has fueled the need for advanced data-mining techniques within organizations. The advent of data mining methods used to uncover hidden nuggets of information buried within large data sets has also fueled the need for determining how these unique projects can be successful. There are many challenges associated…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Information Retrieval, Surveys
Lido, Catherine; Osborne, Michael; Livingston, Mark; Thakuriah, Piyushimita; Sila-Nowicka, Katarzyna – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016
This research employs novel techniques to examine older learners' journeys, educationally and physically, in order to gain a "three-dimensional" picture of lifelong learning in the modern urban context of Glasgow. The data offers preliminary analyses of an ongoing 1,500 household survey by the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC). A sample of…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Adult Learning, Lifelong Learning, Urban Areas
Lei, Wu; Qing, Fang; Zhou, Jin – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2016
There are usually limited user evaluation of resources on a recommender system, which caused an extremely sparse user rating matrix, and this greatly reduce the accuracy of personalized recommendation, especially for new users or new items. This paper presents a recommendation method based on rating prediction using causal association rules.…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Attribution Theory, Correlation, Evaluation Methods
Martínez Abad, Fernando; Chaparro Caso López, Alicia A. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2017
In light of the emergence of statistical analysis techniques based on data mining in education sciences, and the potential they offer to detect non-trivial information in large databases, this paper presents a procedure used to detect factors linked to academic achievement in large-scale assessments. The study is based on a non-experimental,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Statistical Analysis, Evaluation Methods
Ramirez-Faghih, Caroline Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The goal of this study was to examine the reciprocal relationship between statistical investigation and motivation of college students in a Mathematical Reasoning course (Math 1). Unlike previous studies in which students' projects or statistical investigations have been examined as the final product that shows evidence of statistical…
Descriptors: College Students, Statistics, Thinking Skills, Mathematical Logic
Mendive, Susana; Weiland, Christina; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Snow, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
"Un Buen Comienzo" [A Good Start] was a professional development program implemented with prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers in Chilean public schools serving low-income families. In a randomized trial, the program showed moderate to large impacts on classroom quality but no impacts on targeted child outcomes. To unpack these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Professional Development, Kindergarten
Cumming, John M.; Gloeckner, Gene W. – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2012
After interviewing homeless high school students, the research team in a Colorado school district discovered that many students had not revealed their true living conditions (homelessness) to anyone in the school district. This research team developed an anonymous survey written around the homeless categories identified in the McKinney-Vento…
Descriptors: Homeless People, High School Students, Surveys, School Districts
Smith, Eddie Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This research attempted to determine variables predictive of success in mathematics achievement among pre-service teachers at UMKC. It was conducted during the Winter 2006 semester at a medium-sized urban university. The participants (all students enrolled in geometry courses) were invited to volunteer; 49 agreed to participate. Three structured…
Descriptors: Study Habits, Urban Universities, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement
Herreid, Charlene H.; Miller, Thomas E. – College and University, 2009
This article is the fourth in a series of articles describing an attrition prediction and intervention project at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa. In this article, the researchers describe the updated version of the prediction model. The original model was developed from a sample of about 900 First Time in College (FTIC) students…
Descriptors: Prediction, Regression (Statistics), Researchers, Intervention
Bellows, Nicole M.; Halpin, Helen A. – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: We examined the relationship between the quality indicator for decline in activities of daily living (ADL) and the use of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) for determining Medicaid skilled nursing facility reimbursement. Design and Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis using the 2004 National MDS Facility Quality Indicator reports as…
Descriptors: Multiple Regression Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Comparative Analysis, Health Insurance
Stagner, Matthew; Goerge, Robert; Ballard, Pete – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2009
This report makes a number of recommendations on new directions for the development of child well-being indicators. For developmental transitions throughout early childhood, the authors call for standardizing birth records across states, collecting additional data at immunization visits, and creating common assessments at kindergarten entry. For…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Information Systems, Social Indicators, Kindergarten
Nonresidential Crime Attractors and Generators Elevate Perceived Neighborhood Crime and Incivilities
McCord, Eric S.; Ratcliffe, Jerry H.; Garcia, R. Marie; Taylor, Ralph B. – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2007
Recent studies have produced conflicting findings about the impacts of local nonresidential land uses on perceived incivilities. This study advances work in this area by developing a land-use perspective theoretically grounded in Brantingham and Brantingham's geometry of crime model in environmental criminology. That focus directs attention to…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Heads of Households, Crime, Land Use

Hesseldenz, Jon S.; Smith, Barbara G. – Research in Higher Education, 1977
Possible respondents in a 1974 survey of University of Kentucky doctoral graduates were sent either computer-prepared or offset-printed questionnaires, personalized and identical in content. Overall response rates were similar except when the responses were categorized by the academic major of each recipient. (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: Classification, Computers, Data Collection, Graduate Surveys
Collins, Mary Elizabeth; Mowbray, Carol T. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2008
Because of advances in psychotropic medications, psychiatric rehabilitation methods, the implementation of civil rights legislation, and empowerment movement of consumers with psychiatric disabilities, students with mental illnesses are increasingly able to access and complete higher education. Disability services offices on college campuses can…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Disabilities
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