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Blair, Peter Q.; Smetters, Kent – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
While college enrollment has more-than doubled since 1970, elite colleges have barely increased supply, instead reducing admit rates. We show that straightforward reasons cannot explain this behavior. We propose a model where colleges compete on prestige, measured using relative selectivity or relative admit rates. A key comparative static of the…
Descriptors: Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends, Competition, Reputation
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Piao, Guangyuan – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2021
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) which enable large-scale open online learning for massive users have been playing an important role in modern education for both students as well as professionals. To keep users' interest in MOOCs, recommender systems have been studied and deployed to recommend courses or videos that a user might be interested…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Online Courses, Navigation (Information Systems), Learning Analytics
Danilov, Igor Val; Mihailova, Sandra – Online Submission, 2021
One of the most intriguing questions in cognitive science is the Primary Data Entry (PDE) problem: where does social knowledge come from? After birth, an organism meets with reality, which is transcendental, staying beyond any experience and understanding of this pure reason. Basic approaches to the study of cognition are cognitivism,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Intelligence, Models, Intention
Batley, Prathiba Natesan; Hedges, Larry V. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Although statistical practices to evaluate intervention effects in SCEDs have gained prominence in the recent times, models are yet to incorporate and investigate all their analytic complexities. Most of these statistical models incorporate slopes and autocorrelations both of which contribute to trend in the data. The question that arises is…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Models, Accuracy, Computation
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Mike Ceriani de Oliveira Gomes – European Journal of Education (EJED), 2021
In mid-2016, in Brazil, many political changes are made after the deposition of President Dilma Rousseff from the presidency of the federal republic. Among these changes, initiated by the President of the Republic Michel Temer and sustained by his successor, Jair Bolsonaro, are the changes in the area of Education, placing it more and more on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Neoliberalism, Models
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Amanda Cooper; Stephen MacGregor; Samantha Shewchuk – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2021
Purpose: This scoping review utilizes findings from 80 articles to build a research model to study research-practice-policy networks in K-12 education systems. The purpose of this study was to generate a broad understanding of the variation in conceptualizations of research-practice-policy partnerships, rather than dominant conceptualizations.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Models
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Hall, James; Malmberg, Lars-Erik; Lindorff, Ariel; Baumann, Nicole; Sammons, Pam – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2020
This paper presents a new methodological model termed Airbag Moderation: That the relationship between two variables varies as a function of a third, and that this third variable depends upon one of the others. Airbag Moderation extends and bridges a number of theories and it can be implemented using existing statistical models and software…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Models, Evaluation Methods, Educational Research
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Salar, Riza; Arici, Faruk; Caliklar, Seyma; Yilmaz, Rabia M. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate the augmented reality (AR) immersion experiences of university students studying in science education. The relationship between interest, usability, emotional investment, focus of attention, presence and flow was examined for university students studying in the science education department who used AR…
Descriptors: College Students, Science Education, Usability, Correlation
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Cuperman, Dan; Verner, Igor M. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2019
This article considers student analogical reasoning associated with learning practice in creating bio-inspired robots. The study was in the framework of an outreach course for middle school students. Fifty eighth and ninth graders performed inquiries into behavior and locomotion of snakes and designed robotic models using the BIOLOID robot…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Robotics, Models, Biological Sciences
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Rix, Jonathan – British Journal of Special Education, 2020
Despite decades of effort to achieve inclusive education systems, the emphasis on special education persists. This article explores the contradictory impulses that underpin these two concepts and considers whether they can be brought together. It does this through the development of two models; a model of certainty and a 'model of uncertainty'.…
Descriptors: Special Education, Inclusion, Models, Differences
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Christofalos, Andriana L.; Raney, Gary E.; Daniel, Frances; Demos, Alexander P. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
Background: Research shows that providing readers with a title prior to reading a passage increases comprehension compared with reading a passage without a title. However, the specific type of comprehension that is facilitated by the presence of a title and how this relates to reading time has not been examined. We present three experiments in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Layout (Publications), Reading Rate, Models
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Howie, Peter C.; Bagnall, Richard G. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
This article responds to the argued lack of clearly articulated, consistent, and agreed criteria that might be used by researchers for determining the adequacy of a given concept for a given task. It does so by describing the development of a framework of such criteria, presenting that framework, and illustratively applying it to the evaluation of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Social Science Research, Models, Psychotherapy
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Rudd, David – Children's Literature in Education, 2020
This article explores the two film adaptations of Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory": Mel Stuart's 1971 "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" and Tim Burton's ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Warner Bros., Burbank, CA, 2005). It champions Robert Stam's approach to adaptation, which looks at the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Authors, Films, Models
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Stefaniak, Jill; Xu, Meimei – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
The majority of instructional design models have directed focus on instructional design activities such as analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. Criticisms regarding instructional design models have suggested that the use of these models provides instructional designers with a limited view of the design environment. This…
Descriptors: Models, Instructional Design, Criticism, Correlation
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Turner, John R.; Baker, Rose – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2020
The current research study utilized a case study research method to test the theory that the creativity and innovative processes are a complex adaptive system. Through qualitative interviews with renowned creators, the current study categorized the data into eight characteristics of complex adaptive systems: path dependent, systems have a history,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Innovation, Systems Approach, Evaluation Methods
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