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Gierl, Mark J.; Zheng, Yinggan; Cui, Ying – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2008
The purpose of this study is to describe how the attribute hierarchy method (AHM) can be used to evaluate differential group performance at the cognitive attribute level. The AHM is a psychometric method for classifying examinees' test item responses into a set of attribute-mastery patterns associated with different components in a cognitive model…
Descriptors: Test Items, Student Reaction, Pattern Recognition, Psychometrics
von Frank, Valerie, Ed. – National Staff Development Council, 2009
This newsletter is published four times a year. It offers articles on school improvement, organizational planning, training, and managing change. This issue contains: (1) Leadership Teams Create Lasting Change (Valerie von Frank); (2) NSDC Tool: Force-Field Analysis; (3) NSDC Tool: Identify Your Internal and External Foci; (4) NSDC Tool: Assess…
Descriptors: Leadership, School Culture, School Administration, Change Agents
Crow, Tracy, Ed. – National Staff Development Council, 2009
This newsletter is published four times a year. It offers articles on school improvement, organizational planning, training, and managing change. This issue contains: (1) Let Data Do the Talking: Clarify Goals and Roles by Examining Data (Valerie von Frank); (2) NSDC Tool: The Responsive School Scan Tool; and (3) NSDC Tool: Data Conversations Put…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Pattern Recognition, Professional Development, Goal Orientation
Fantino, Edmund; Kennelly, Arthur – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2009
Students chose between two allocation options, one that gave the allocator more and another participant still more (the "optimal" choice) and one which gave the allocator less and the other participant still less (the "competitive" choice). In a within-subjects design, students' behavior patterns were significantly correlated across the two rounds…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Resource Allocation, Sharing Behavior, Behavior Patterns
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Lubienski, Christopher; Gulosino, Charisse; Weitzel, Peter – American Journal of Education, 2009
Competition sparked by school choice is expected to generate greater educational opportunities, particularly for disadvantaged students. The premise is that competitive incentives will change the organizational behavior of schools (and districts, dioceses, etc.) in ways that will lead to more equitable access for students across varied and often…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, Educational Opportunities, Educationally Disadvantaged
Kidd, Julie K.; Gadzichowski, K. Marinka; Gallington, Debbie A.; Boyer, Caroline E.; Pasnak, Robert – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
The authors' purpose was to study the efficacy of patterning instruction in improving the reading and mathematics proficiency of first grade children. Patterning instruction was compared to equal time and effort spent on instruction on reading or mathematics or social studies, which are control conditions in this experiment. The question for…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Low Income, Grade 1, Immigrants
Michalski, Greg V. – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2011
Excessive college course withdrawals are costly to the student and the institution in terms of time to degree completion, available classroom space, and other resources. Although generally well quantified, detailed analysis of the reasons given by students for course withdrawal is less common. To address this, a text mining analysis was performed…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Courses, Withdrawal (Education), College Students
Schlessman, Elizabeth – Rethinking Schools, 2011
As teachers plan instruction--even instruction about punctuation--they have the opportunity to engage students' minds and create new labels: question-asking, problem-solving. How teachers teach embeds a vision of who they think kids are and what they think kids are capable of. Are they destined for a future of critical thinking, questioning,…
Descriptors: Punctuation, Teaching Methods, Lesson Plans, Grade 5
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Shapiro, Joel; Bray, Christopher – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2011
This article describes a model that can be used to analyze student enrollment data and can give insights for improving retention of part-time students and refining institutional budgeting and planning efforts. Adult higher-education programs are often challenged in that part-time students take courses less reliably than full-time students. For…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Students, Part Time Students, Enrollment Trends
Rojas, David Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Systematic differences among regional U.S. English speech are recognizable to native speakers to varying degrees. This has been demonstrated by researchers in perceptual dialectology who ask listeners to match a speaker to his or her dialect region. Machines have also been able to identify the regional origin of a speaker to some degree, although…
Descriptors: Dialects, Sociolinguistics, Phonemes, Identification
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Viljaranta, Jaana; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Aunola, Kaisa; Salmela-Aro, Katariina – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2009
The present study examined what kinds of patterns of task-values adolescents show, and whether these patterns predict their educational and occupational expectations and school track. Six hundred and fourteen adolescents were examined twice before their transition to secondary education and once thereafter. The clustering-by-cases analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Pattern Recognition, Secondary Education
Dessoff, Alan – District Administration, 2009
It's no surprise that school districts are as vulnerable to fraud as the private sector or any other segment of government. Crimes in districts include collusion with outside vendors who provide kickbacks to employees, misuse of district-issued credit cards, embezzlement of district funds, and theft of district property. "Fraud happens…
Descriptors: School Districts, Deception, Antisocial Behavior, Crime
Byrd, Nola Butler – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2009
This study examines the historical and contemporary identity development patterns of first, second, and third generation students to determine the attributes students bring with them and how they develop through their experiences in a multicultural counselor training program. The paper examines patterns between groups, followed by a discussion of…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Identification, Cultural Pluralism, Counselor Training
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Gunal, Serkan – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2008
Digital libraries play a crucial role in distance learning. Nowadays, they are one of the fundamental information sources for the students enrolled in this learning system. These libraries contain huge amount of instructional data (text, audio and video) offered by the distance learning program. Organization of the digital libraries is…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Pattern Recognition, Electronic Libraries, Classification
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Chang, Chih-Kai; Chen, Gwo-Dong; Wang, Chin-Yeh – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2011
Functional roles may explain the learning performance of groups. Detecting a functional role is critical for promoting group learning performance in computer-supported collaborative learning environments. However, it is not easy for teachers to identify the functional roles played by students in a web-based learning group, or the relationship…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Group Dynamics
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