Purpose: The elements of impaired swallowing biomechanics are visually assessed and scored by clinicians using a standardized and validated tool for assessing type and severity of physiological impairments using the Modified Barium Swallow Impairment Profile (MBSImP). However, the functional anatomical correlates that underly noted impairments…

This article studies the research productivity of scholars and institutional departments in the field of marketing, by examining data of published articles in four premier marketing journals ("Journal of Consumer Research," "Journal of Marketing," "Journal of Marketing Research and Marketing Science") from 2010 to…

This study was conducted using quantitative methods to determine if a relationship exists between former Agriculture Career and Technical Education (CTE) concentrators' Technical Skills Assessment (TSA) performance and their attaining related placement after high school. The study included data from 13,581 agriculture students who graduated during…

Primitive reflexes are a critical part of early development but eventually integrate to give rise to volitional and cortically directed movements and higher-level cognitive skills. Failure to integrate these reflexes in a developmentally appropriate stage has shown correlation with developmental delays which affect occupational participation.…

This study aims to determine the level of student online learning readiness (OLR) and scrutinize its correlation with students' learning achievement (LA). To achieve this goal, a quantitative correlational design study was conducted. The participants of this study were fifty-six students joining Islamic Philosophy course (IPC) in a first semester…

It is desirable for an educational assessment to be constructed of items that can differentiate different performance levels of test takers, and thus it is important to estimate accurately the item discrimination parameters in either classical test theory or item response theory. It is particularly challenging to do so when the sample sizes are…

Differential item functioning (DIF) occurs when the probability of endorsing an item differs across groups for individuals with the same latent trait level. The presence of DIF items may jeopardize the validity of an instrument; therefore, it is crucial to identify DIF items in routine operations of educational assessment. While DIF detection…

The fact that the social studies course has an intense content for sustainable development makes it important to reveal the awareness of social studies teacher candidates on this issue. From this point of view, in this study, it was tried to determine the sustainable development awareness levels of social studies teacher candidates in terms of…

The study aims to examine the effect of the level of intra-organizational entrepreneurship in higher education institutions on the level of organizational innovation and to determine whether the perceived organizational development level has a mediating role in this effect. In the research, it is examined whether the academicians' perceptions of…

Comfort and preparedness are dispositions that along with teacher knowledge, comprise teacher quality (cf. Clarke & Hollingsworth, 2002). Professional development programs that help teachers understand and respond to individual students' strengths and needs can support equity in the classroom by building teachers' preparedness and comfort,…

Technology pedagogical knowledge from educators can help transform and combat literacy challenges. In rise to the current educational challenges ignite a passion in the researcher to assist using technology. The involved data from 20 educational leaders. The problem is the low scores in Entrepreneurial Literacy programs and reading tests.…

School systems across the nation have used some form of instructional feedback, such as traditional and standards-based grading systems, to document students' academic performance. The urgency of developing an alternative grading system emerged because grades determined by teachers using the traditional grading system were unreliable. This study…

Student growth percentiles (SGPs) have become a common means to measure and report on student academic growth for state education accountability, and some states have adopted SGP cutscores as a means of classifying student growth into categories like "high/medium/low" growth. It has therefore become important to understand properties of…

Propensity score matching and weighting methods are often used in observational effectiveness studies to reduce imbalance between treated and untreated groups on a set of potential confounders. However, much of the prior methodological literature on matching and weighting has yet to examine performance for scenarios with a majority of treated…

Higher education faculty who teach online can face numerous challenges in providing optimal experiences for their students. Besides their potentially limited instructional design expertise and understanding of how to optimize technology to support learning, faculty may have difficulties in finding ways to make themselves be perceived as real…