NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 4,771 to 4,785 of 20,942 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Vuksanovic, Jasmina; Bjekic, Jovana; Radivojevic, Natalija – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
A body of research shows that grammatical gender, although an arbitrary category, is viewed as the system with its own meaning. However, the question remains to what extent does grammatical gender influence shaping our notions about objects when both verbal and visual information are available. Two experiments were conducted. The results obtained…
Descriptors: Language Styles, Form Classes (Languages), Psycholinguistics, Grammar
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Eyal, Ori; Rom, Noa – Journal of Educational Administration, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the epistemological trends in the Israeli Educational Leadership (EL) scholarship between the years 2000 and 2012. Design/methodology/approach: The 51 studies included in this review were detected through a systematic search in online academic databases. Abstracts of studies identified as being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Trends, Epistemology, Instructional Leadership
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Antaramian, Susan – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2015
A dual-factor mental health model includes measures of positive psychological well-being in addition to traditional indicators of psychopathology to comprehensively determine mental health status. The current study examined the utility of this model in understanding the psychological adjustment and educational functioning of college students. A…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Measures (Individuals), Models, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Lindenman, Heather – Composition Forum, 2015
In this article, I challenge the scholarly consensus that suggests students only rarely forge meaningful connections between the genres they compose in different domains of writing (Reiff and Bawashi; Yancey, Robertson, and Taczak). I argue that the genre and domain categories composition researchers have imposed through data collection and…
Descriptors: College Students, Focus Groups, Interviews, Writing (Composition)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Deroey, Katrien L. B. – Applied Linguistics, 2015
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of lexicogrammatical markers of important lecture points and proposes a classification in terms of their interactive and textual orientation. The importance markers were extracted from the British Academic Spoken English corpus using corpus-driven and corpus-based methods. The classification is based on…
Descriptors: Classification, English, Academic Discourse, Computational Linguistics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Semerci, Çetin; Batdi, Veli – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
This study attempts to answer the question "Does a Constructivist Learning Approach have any effect on learners' academic achievement, retention and attitude scores?" As a result of a systematic investigation of experimental studies carried out between 2002 and 2015 in national and international area, 324 (218 articles, 106 theses)…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Constructivism (Learning), Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes
Raposo-Rivas, Manuela; Martínez-Figueira, Esther; Campos, Jose Antonio Sarmiento – Online Submission, 2015
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the rapid growth in the MOOCs offering brought about a new educational landscape, posing new challenges to teaching and learning, mainly due to massive participation, ubiquity and free enrollment. These courses embody a confluence of technological and pedagogical mediations yet to be fully…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Instructional Design, Spanish, Mixed Methods Research
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Koirala, Cesar; Jee, Rebecca Y. – Research-publishing.net, 2015
Although a reader's text-level comprehension is affected by the comprehension of individual sentences in a text, little attention has been paid to the difficulty of sentences. This study investigates whether measures (features) of text difficulty affect the "gradience" observed in sentence difficulty judgments. We examine two traditional…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Sentence Structure, Word Frequency
Liu, Ran; Koedinger, Kenneth R. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
A growing body of research suggests that accounting for student specific variability in educational data can improve modeling accuracy and may have implications for individualizing instruction. The Additive Factors Model (AFM), a logistic regression model used to fit educational data and discover/refine skill models of learning, contains a…
Descriptors: Models, Regression (Statistics), Learning, Classification
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2015
Since the 1970s, federal civil rights legislation has mandated that school districts identify English language learners (ELLs) and provide them with services that allow them to fully participate in the educational system. The intent of this requirement is to ensure educational equity for students whose limited knowledge of English prevents them…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Classification, Student Placement, Equal Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Bussu, G.; Jones, E. J. H.; Charman, T.; Johnson, M. H.; Buitelaar, J. K.; Baron-Cohen, S.; Bedford, R.; Bolton, P.; Blasi, A.; Chandler, S.; Cheung, C.; Davies, K.; Elsabbagh, M.; Fernandes, J.; Gammer, I.; Garwood, H.; Gliga, T.; Guiraud, J.; Hudry, K.; Liew, M.; Lloyd-Fox, S.; Maris, H.; O'Hara, L.; Pasco, G.; Pickles, A.; Ribeiro, H.; Salomone, E.; Tucker, L.; Volein, A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
We integrated multiple behavioural and developmental measures from multiple time-points using machine learning to improve early prediction of individual Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) outcome. We examined Mullen Scales of Early Learning, Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, and early ASD symptoms between 8 and 36 months in high-risk siblings (HR; n…
Descriptors: Prediction, Autism, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Classification
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tegtmejer, Thyge; Hjörne, Eva; Säljö, Roger – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2018
This study of institutional categorization reports an investigation of the practices, procedures and assumptions of psychiatric staff members when diagnosing ADHD. The main data upon which the study is based consist of transcribed audio recordings of meetings in the psychiatric clinic. Here children referred from primary schools on the suspicion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Problems, Institutional Characteristics
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sah, Wen-hui – First Language, 2018
This study investigates the referential choice of Mandarin-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The data consist of narratives from 16 children with ASD and 16 typically-developing (TD) children. The narratives were elicited using the wordless picture book "Frog, where are you?" Participants' referential expressions…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Classification, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Whittle, Rachael J.; Telford, Amanda; Benson, Amanda C. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
This research explored teacher perceptions of how they influence academic performance of Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) Physical Education students. VCE Physical Education teachers (n = 37) from 31 secondary schools in Victoria, Australia participated in a qualitative study using focus groups with a semi-structured interview schedule.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Physical Education, Secondary School Students, Teacher Student Relationship
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Forbes, Karen; Fisher, Linda – Language Learning Journal, 2018
In an increasingly multilingual world, the question of how to improve foreign language speaking skills of pupils in British schools is of paramount importance to language teachers and policy-makers today. This paper examines how an explicit focus on metacognitive strategy use within secondary school foreign language lessons impacts pupils'…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Secondary School Students, Language Proficiency, Oral Language
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  315  |  316  |  317  |  318  |  319  |  320  |  321  |  322  |  323  |  ...  |  1397