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Adler, Katherine M. – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2020
Carnegie Units (CU) quantify the time spent by students in and out of class in terms of content engagement. The rule states that for every one hour spent in a face-to-face setting, students spend an additional two hours of study time or engagement with the material). For colleges offering both online and residential courses with the same content,…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Time on Task, Learner Engagement, Online Courses
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Andersson, Johanna; Löfgren, Ragnhild; Tibell, Lena A. E. – Journal of Biological Education, 2020
This paper presents a study of children's ideas of the body's internal structure. Children between four and 13 years (N = 170) individually produced drawings. During each drawing session the children explained their drawings to a facilitator and added written labels either by themselves or, if they were too young to write, with the facilitator's…
Descriptors: Human Body, Freehand Drawing, Anatomy, Science Education
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Hilton, Gillian L. S. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2020
This paper examines the recent noticeable rise in parents and carers in England, deciding to home school their children. This rise has been attributed to schools advising parents with 'difficult' children, those with special educational needs or behavioural problems, that they have a choice; home educate or their child will be permanently…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change
David Lang; Guanling Chen; Kathy Mirzaei; Andreas Paepcke – Grantee Submission, 2020
We explore the relationship between video playback speed and student learning outcomes. Using an experimental design, we present the results of a pre-registered study that assigns users to watch videos at either 1.0x or 1.25x speed. We find that students who consume sped content are more likely to get better grades in a course, attempt more…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Time on Task, Time Factors (Learning), Educational Technology
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Doyer, Ilse; Bean, Wilna L.; du Plessis, André – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2023
This paper presents the use of the time-on-task analysis (TOTA) diagnostic model as an instrument to improve the efficient management of allocated academic time in schools and focuses on the descriptive analytics produced by the TOTA model. The model aims to analyse how time is spent during the school day to enable school leaders, managers, and…
Descriptors: Time on Task, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Time Management
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Reed, Deborah K.; Meginnis, Tracy; Park, Seohee; Gibbs, Anna – Remedial and Special Education, 2023
This study sought to better understand how schools were addressing U.S. state policies targeting summer reading interventions for students not meeting accountability standards. Survey data were gathered from 580 public and private elementary schools in one state (67% response rate) regarding the barriers to offering summer programs,…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Intervention
Ayman Alzaid – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As computer games become integral to students' learning experiences, this dissertation investigates the impact of educational game-based learning on mathematical outcomes and attitudes among elementary school students. Employing data science techniques, including statistical approaches and quantitative analysis through data mining of gameplay data…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Outcomes of Education, Game Based Learning, Mathematics Instruction
Erica N. Sachs; Luke C. Miller; Beth E. Schueler – Grantee Submission, 2022
During the 2020-21 school year, COVID-19 forced Virginia's school divisions to adapt to unprecedented circumstances, which led many divisions to deviate from the typical five-day-a-week pre-pandemic school schedule with all students attending school in person each day. In-person learning is superior to remote learning in promoting student…
Descriptors: In Person Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics, Instructional Program Divisions
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Mavilidi, Myrto F.; Mason, Connor; Leahy, Angus A.; Kennedy, Sarah G.; Eather, Narelle; Hillman, Charles H.; Morgan, Philip J.; Lonsdale, Chris; Wade, Levi; Riley, Nicholas; Heemskerk, Christina; Lubans, David R. – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
Despite well-established benefits, the majority of young people around the globe are not sufficiently active. In many countries, including Australia, physical activity (i.e. physical education and school sport) is not mandatory in the final two years of high school (i.e. senior school years). The aim of this study was to assess the impact of a…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Physical Education, Athletics, Intervention
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Taylor, Christa L.; Kaufman, James C.; Barbot, Baptiste – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
The present study examines effort in narrative creative writing (operationalized as time-on-task) using a new assessment approach, the storyboard task. Participants (N = 125) completed alternate forms of the storyboard task in two sessions five weeks apart. They also completed measures of divergent thinking and self-reported ideational behavior.…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Story Telling
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Jiang, Juming; Kusamoto, Misaki; Tanaka, Ayumi – Frontline Learning Research, 2021
This study examined whether individual differences in causality orientation moderate the effects of monetary reward and choice on perceived competence, which affect intrinsic motivation in turn. Causality orientation refers to an individual's tendency to experience or interpret events in a social context in a specific way and to behave…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Correlation, Rewards, Incentives
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Zhang, Mo; Guo, Hongwen; Liu, Xiang – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2021
We present an empirical study on the use of keystroke analytics to capture and understand how writers manage their time and make inferences on how they allocate their cognitive resources during essay writing. The results suggest three distinct longitudinal patterns of writing process that describe how writers approach an essay task in a writing…
Descriptors: Keyboarding (Data Entry), Learning Analytics, Data Collection, Cognitive Processes
Joshua Montgomery – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The problem that was investigated is if the level of cybersecurity knowledge held by technology leaders at Appalachian Ohio schools is placing those schools at risk for exploitation. The research method selected for this study was a quantitative study with a correlational research design. The study looked at two key factors in this relationship,…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Information Security, Security Personnel, Information Technology
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Gujord, Ann-Kristin Helland – Language Testing, 2023
This study explores whether and to what extent the background information supplied by 10,155 immigrants who took an official language test in Norwegian affected their chances of passing one, two, or all three parts of the test. The background information included in the analysis was prior education, region (location of their home country),…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Adults, Second Language Learning, Norwegian
Mengdi Hao – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This paper uses a novel data on both students' and teachers' online participation with students' administrative academic records and characteristics. The first chapter provides evidence that pre-pandemic lower-achieving students benefitted of the extra time they got during the Spring 2020 lockdown by doing more homework and completing the work…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Online Courses
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