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Peer reviewedHeymann, Harald O.; Roberson, Theodore M. – Journal of Dental Education, 1984
A statewide survey of operative dentistry in North Carolina was conducted to provide an update of operative dentistry practice and to assist the operative department at the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry in making informed curricular decisions. The results of the survey are discussed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Curriculum Development, Dentistry, Dentists
Peer reviewedFlynn, James R. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1984
Thorndike's Stanford-Binet data suggest that from 1932 to 1971-72 preschool children enjoyed greater IQ gains than older children, possibly due to the rise of television. Additional analysis indicated that gains were either due to sampling error or totally antedated 1947. Gains of 12 IQ points were found for Americans. (Author/EGS)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Age Differences, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Quotient
Peer reviewedAngseesing, J. P. A. – School Science Review, 1976
Descriptors: College Science, Ecology, Environmental Education, Higher Education
Peer reviewedYarlott, G. – Educational Review, 1976
Attempts to demonstrate that, in children's writing, emotion is communicated more effectively when it is expressed through words signifying a person's attitude towards some specific object or external situation, than it is by verbal reports on either his own internal feelings or his empathic identifications with the feelings of others. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Emotional Response, Empathy, Language Research
Peer reviewedAngrist, Shirley S.; And Others – Adolescence, 1976
Descriptors: Adolescents, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives
Download full textShaughnessy, J. Michael; Ciancetta, Matt; Canada, Dan – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
As part of a research project on students' understanding of variability in statistics, 272 students, (84 middle school and 188 secondary school, grades 6-12) were surveyed on a series of tasks involving repeated sampling. Students' reasoning on the tasks predominantly fell into three types: additive, proportional, or distributional, depending on…
Descriptors: Sampling, Sample Size, Secondary School Students, Statistical Analysis
Ross, Steven M.; McDonald, Aaron J.; McSparrin-Gallagher, Brenda; Slawson, Deborah L. – Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP), 2006
This report presents student-level achievement results for two groups of schools in Tennessee: (a) four charter schools that began operation in 2003-2004; and (b) three new charter schools that were established in 2004-2005. These two cohorts were therefore completing their second and first academic years, respectively, at the time the achievement…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Neighborhood Schools, Poverty, Grades (Scholastic)
Shaughnessy, J. Michael; Canada, Dan; Ciancetta, Matt – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This paper summarizes the thinking of 84 middle school mathematics students' about variability in three stochastics tasks that involve repeated trial. Differences in students' acknowledgment of variability were found, depending on whether the task was from a sampling environment, or a probability environment. Students tended to neglect variability…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Probability, Sampling, Student Attitudes
Jacobs, Victoria R. – 1997
Two studies investigated upper elementary school students' informal understanding of sampling issues in the context of interpreting and evaluating survey results. The specific focus was on the children's evaluation of sampling methods and means of drawing conclusions from multiple surveys. In Study 1, 17 children were individually interviewed to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Comprehension, Elementary School Students
Palaszewski, Bo – 1997
The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was conducted in 1994 in seven European countries with the aim of producing literacy profiles to be used in individual national analyses as well as in international comparisons. It was assumed that the test items could be divided into three unidimensional scales corresponding to the aspects…
Descriptors: Adults, Foreign Countries, International Education, International Studies
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1996
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) is a data collection system of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) designed to address a wide range of education-related issues. It is a telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized civilian population. In 1993, the NHES was designed to cover two topical components: School Readiness…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews
Brick, J. Michael – 1996
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) is a data collection system of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) designed to address a wide range of education-related issues. It is a telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized civilian population. This working paper presents information on the potential for undercoverage bias in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Estimation (Mathematics), Individual Characteristics
Department for Education and Employment, London (England). – 2001
These Literacy across the Curriculum materials are designed to support schools in England that have already done considerable work on literacy across the curriculum as well as those that are just starting. The training pack contains notes for 13 possible units of training. This booklet accompanies the training which introduces schools to the…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Elementary Education, English Departments, Foreign Countries
Gilstrap, Samuel C. – 2002
An evaluation was conducted of the implementation of the Federal Class Size Reduction (FCSR) Program in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), California. The evaluation included assessment of the extent to which eighth grade language arts and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes have been reduced to a 20:1 student-teacher ratio…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Class Size, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Wilde, Judith – National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction NCELA, 2004
The purpose of scientifically-based research within No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is to identify and disseminate conclusive information on ?what works? in education, with an emphasis on determining what instructional input (curricula, instructional techniques) works to increase student outcomes such as academic achievement and language proficiency.…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Research Design
