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Goldring, Ellen; Cohen-Vogel, Lora; Smrekar, Claire; Taylor, Cynthia – American Journal of Education, 2006
This article uses census data, information collected by health and police departments, and GIS mapping software to analyze the neighborhood contexts surrounding schools in one Southern school district. When courts lifted Nashville's desegregation order in 1999, the district agreed to implement a new student assignment plan geared toward…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Desegregation Litigation, African American Children, Social Capital
Marshall, Gail – 1993
This paper summarizes the literature on research studies in informatics and changes in learning, particularly computer-assisted instruction. Research results themselves are often inconclusive when no allowances are made for different generations of hardware and software or computer types, when the computer is treated as the only variable in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning)
Forsyth, G. Alfred; And Others – 1995
A recent conference on statistics education recommended that more emphasis be placed on the interpretation of research (IOR). Ways for developing and assessing IOR and providing a systematic framework for creating and selecting instructional materials for the independent assessment of specific IOR concepts are the focus of this paper. The…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Evaluative Thinking
Asiu, Bernhard W.; Antons, Christopher M.; Fultz, Miriam L. – 1998
A study at the United States Air Force Academy examined reasons for "survey saturation" among students. Despite relatively high return rates, anecdotal student data suggested that students felt burdened by frequent administration of surveys; and administrators expressed concerns about the general validity of survey data. Information was…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Data Interpretation, Higher Education, Response Rates (Questionnaires)
Berkay, Paul James – 1993
This document examined studies of the overjustification effect. Many studies examining the phenomenon were conducted during the 1970s; findings appeared to be accepted without qualification. It is unclear whether researchers conducted the studies with the proper methodologies and interpreted results correctly. Such factors included the type of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication
Glasmeier, Amy – 1988
This report questions whether high-tech development is an option for rural counties in the United States by examining the spatial location, industrial composition, growth experience, and environmental factors associated with high-tech industries in such counties. Using a highly detailed database of manufacturing plants and estimates of employment,…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Employment Patterns, Job Development, Labor Needs
McKnight, Curtis C.; And Others – 1990
The ability to think critically in the presence of arguments with essential quantitative elements, most often graphical elements, will become an essential skill for educated citizens in the future. This paper takes one specific graphical display, a narrow series of observational and interpretational tasks related to a graph, and using a small set…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, College Mathematics
Papalewis, Rosemary – 1990
This paper explores the common elements identified as context variables that may effect student evaluation of instruction, and presents literature from sociology, anthropology, and linguistics that offers renewed challenges to researchers in this area of data interpretation. The common context variables that are seen as effecting student…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Data Interpretation, Ethnic Bias, Higher Education
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1986
This unit emphasizes the integration of software in a focus on the classroom instruction process. Student activities are based on plans and ideas for instructional units presented by a teacher who describes and demonstrates the activities. Integration has occurred when computer applications are included in an instructional activity. This guide…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Data Interpretation, Databases
Brennan, Marie; Noffke, Susan E. – 1988
This paper explores the use of data for evidence in the task of building dialogue in an action research project developed for student teachers in the University of Wisconsin "Action Research on Action Research" project. Three particular uses are found. First, data in the form of information is gathered on a topic under discussion or investigation,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Group Dynamics
Head, J. Thomas; Moore, David M. – 1989
A study was conducted to determine the effect of graphic format--bar, line, table, and line-table graph--on the interpretation of numerical data by field dependent and field independent students. Ninety-six undergraduate students were given the Group Embedded Figures Test and randomly assigned to one of four treatments. During the testing phase,…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Data Interpretation, Field Dependence Independence
Perkins, Kyle; And Others – 1985
A study was carried on to analyze a data set in order to determine whether evidence can be found to support or refute the unitary factor hypothesis of language proficiency, which asserts that there is a single language dimension or factor underlying different language tests. The subjects were 50 advanced adult learners of English as a second…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Data Interpretation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Tracey, Richard – 1985
Ways to interpret data from student ratings of teacher performance and approaches to maximize the use of student ratings are considered, based on the experiences of the Center for Instructional Development and Research (CIDR) at the University of Washington (UW). The use of student ratings at UW and other colleges is briefly considered, along with…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Evaluation Utilization, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Ellis, Diane C. – 1987
This report, based on data from the 1980 U.S. Bureau of the Census, examines the geographic locations of artists and summarizes the numbers of artists and their basic characteristics for each state and the major Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSA). It also compares 1970 and 1980 populations of employed artists in each state and presents…
Descriptors: Artists, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Geographic Distribution
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Christal, Melodie E.; Wittstruck, John R. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1987
Data on which to base interinstitutional comparisons can be obtained directly from institutions or from a variety of secondary and tertiary sources such as national surveys, statistical publications, newsletters, directories, and organizations. Lists of these sources are included. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
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