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Zaheer, Imad; Maggin, Daniel; McDaniel, Sara; McIntosh, Kent; Rodriguez, Billie Jo; Fogt, Julie B. – Behavioral Disorders, 2019
Students with or at-risk for emotional and behavioral disorders pose an immense challenge for educators, and typical practices to address them are punitive and exclusionary, leading to poor academic and social outcomes for students. To address the complex needs of students with intensive emotional and behavioral needs, evidence-based practices and…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Practices
Noble, Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2019
An achievement gap is defined as a significant difference in academic performance between two groups. Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) data indicate that, in Crestland Public School District (pseudonym), there is a clear achievement gap in mathematics between students with disabilities and those without disabilities,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Mathematics Achievement, Students with Disabilities, Elementary School Students
Garcia-Velasquez, Erwin – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the characteristics of effective principals in high-poverty, high-performing urban elementary schools and how these align to the 21 Responsibilities identified by Marzano, Waters & McNulty (2005).The researcher was able to interview ten candidates that met the criteria for the study.…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Effectiveness, High Achievement, Academic Achievement
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Strayer, Jeremy F.; Edwards, Michael Todd – Mathematics Teacher, 2015
A news story claiming that the cream filling of a popular "double" cream sandwich cookie is not really "double" went viral in fall 2013. A high school mathematics teacher posted a blog entry describing how he and his students measured 20 cookies, analyzed the data, and concluded that the double cream cookies had only 1.86 times…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, News Media, Mathematics Education, Statistics
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Hirata, Yoko; Thompson, Paul – ELT Journal, 2022
With the development of language corpora, linguists have been able to identify how often specific words, phrases, and expressions are used, and in which contexts. However, applications of corpora in the wider domain of language teaching have remained limited. This article presents an approach to utilizing corpora, combining principles from…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Action Research, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Bauder, Julia, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2022
Armed with this guide's strategies and concrete examples, subject librarians, data services librarians, and scholarly communication librarians will be inspired to roll up their sleeves and get involved with teaching research data management competencies to students and faculty. The usefulness of research data management skills bridges numerous…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Academic Libraries, Library Services, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
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Erin C. Yang; Robby Divine; Christine S. Kang; Sidney Chan; Elijah Arenas; Zoe Subol; Peter Tinker; Hayden Manninen; Alicia Feichtenbiner; Talal Mustafa; Julia Hallowell; Isiac Orr; Hugh Haddox; Brian Koepnick; Jacob O'Connor; Ian C. Haydon; Karla-Luise Herpoldt; Kandise Van Wormer; Celine Abell; David Baker; Alena Khmelinskaia; Neil P. King – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Undergraduate research experiences can improve student success in graduate education and STEM careers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, undergraduate researchers at our institution and many others lost their work-study research positions due to interruption of in-person research activities. This imposed a financial burden on the students and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Winchatz, Michaela R.; Sprain, Leah; Poutiainen, Saila; Ho, Evelyn Y. – Communication Education, 2023
In this article, we use grounded practical theory to develop a practical theory for using "difficult data" in Language and Social Interaction university classes. "Difficult data" are transcribed, audio/video-recorded data that contain language and ideologies that could be offensive, bigoted, or otherwise disturbing. We provide…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Student Attitudes, Classroom Communication, Audio Equipment
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Figueiredo, M.; Esteves, L.; Neves, J.; Vicente, H. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2016
This study reports the use of data mining tools in order to examine the influence of the methodology used in chemistry lab classes, on the weight attributed by the students to the lab work on learning and own motivation. The answer frequency analysis was unable to discriminate the opinions expressed by the respondents according to the type of the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Chemistry, Science Instruction
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Goldman, Juliette – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
There is a revolution taking place in teacher/learner/technology relations. At primary, secondary and tertiary education levels, teachers and students are being confronted by new technologies, new pedagogies, new relationships in teacher-student roles, as well as reconsiderations about how information is to be learned. The growth of information…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Technology Uses in Education
Brown, Desline A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The perspectives of special education teachers on the strategies used to teach mathematics to special education students were examined in this dissertation. Three central research questions that guided the study are: (a) What were New York special education teachers' opinions about the methods they use to teach mathematics to special education…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Special Education, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education
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Lem, Stephanie; Onghena, Patrick; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2017
Refutational text is one of the many instructional techniques that have been proposed to be used in education as a way to achieve effective learning. The aim of refutational text is to transform misconceptions into conceptions that are in line with current scientific concepts. This is done by explicitly stating a misconception, refuting it, and…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Mathematics Education, Teaching Methods, Misconceptions
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Leopold, Lisa – Communication Teacher, 2017
Courses: Advanced Public Speaking, Argumentation Theory. Objectives: This activity aims to enhance students' ability to make statistics compelling and persuasive.
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Public Speaking, Rhetorical Theory, Statistics
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Perrin, Charles L. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2017
The disadvantages of the usual linear least-squares analysis of first- and second-order kinetic data are described, and nonlinear least-squares fitting is recommended as an alternative.
Descriptors: Kinetics, Least Squares Statistics, Alternative Assessment, Goodness of Fit
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Fan, Tingting; Song, Jieqing; Guan, Zheshu – Language Testing in Asia, 2021
Currently, much research on cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) focuses on the development of statistical models estimating individual students' attribute profiles. However, little is known about how to communicate model-generated statistical results to stakeholders, and how to translate formatively diagnostic information into teaching…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Student Characteristics, Teaching Methods, Data Analysis
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