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Tappin, Linda – Mathematics Teacher, 1994
Presents an activity to analyze the data from the Challenger explosion to help students understand the critical role of statistics in decision making and the importance of considering all available data. (MKR)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Exponents (Mathematics)
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Cleverley, John – Comparative Education, 1991
Evaluating Chinese publications about rural education and needed reforms presents several problems: political limits on educational debate; paucity of statistical data and reference citations; and complex ideological statements. Examination of nine journal and newspaper articles reveals that they cautiously endorse rural education reforms within…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Data Interpretation, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Volman, Monique; Ten Dam, Geert – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1998
Interprets data from two studies in which girls and boys pondered their gender equality/inequality views. Argues that an understanding of the ambivalence in discourses on gender provides the key to the development of effective feminist strategies in education. Conveys the need for discussing and comprehending the present generation's definition of…
Descriptors: Computer Anxiety, Computers, Data Interpretation, Feminism
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Reitman, David; Drabman, Ronald S. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1999
A case study illustrates how the ongoing data-based monitoring of timeout use by parents enhanced the treatment of an 8-year-old boy, referred because of noncompliance in the home. Maintaining the timeout record enabled rapid refinements in the timeout procedure by providing a feedback mechanism to the therapist, identification of the need for…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Children
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Davis, Hilarie B.; Fernekes, William R.; Hladky, Christine R. – Social Studies, 1999
Describes the research questions, methods, and findings for two action-research studies, conducted in 1996 and 1997, about the use of Internet-based resources for the study of the Holocaust. Discusses data and relationships from both studies and offers direction for schools planning to engage their faculty in action research. (CMK)
Descriptors: Action Research, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Faculty Development
Borden, Victor M. H. – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1999
The sources and structure of data reported in the annual "Top 100" list of colleges and universities conferring the highest numbers of degrees to students of color are described, including the way in which various student categories are reported. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Graduates, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Degrees (Academic)
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Strain, Phillip S.; Kohler, Frank W.; Gresham, Frank – Behavioral Disorders, 1998
Discusses logic and interpretation problems inherent in doing quantitative syntheses of single-case research. Addresses the meta-analytic method of using percentage of nonoverlapping data, highlighting special concerns related to withdrawal designs, sensitivity to variability in behavior, social significance of behavior change, and variables that…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Case Studies, Data Interpretation, Elementary Secondary Education
Bracey, Gerald W. – Principal Leadership, 2001
Factors contributing to American students' declining scores on the TIMSS (Third International Mathematics and Science Study) between grades 4 and 8 include textbook size and U.S. educators' traditional views of middle-school years. Bad data probably invalidate claims about the grade 8 to 12 decline. International reading scores favor Americans.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Education, Data Interpretation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Trujillo, Antonio J.; McCalla, Dawn C. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2004
One of the primary objectives of Colombian social health insurance reform was to increase competition among for-profit insurers. Unfortunately, the flat capitated formula creates an opportunity for sickness funds to maximize reimbursement gains by "cream skimming"--selecting against unhealthy individuals. This paper explores sickness…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Diseases, Competition, Health Insurance
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Doornbos, Anja J.; Bolhuis, S.; Denessen, E. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2004
The principal aim of this study is to explore the relations between work domains and the work-related learning of workers. The article is intended to provide insight into the learning experiences of Dutch police officers during the course of their daily work. Interviews regarding actual learning events and subsequent changes in knowledge, skills…
Descriptors: Police, Least Squares Statistics, Indo European Languages, Education Work Relationship
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Howley, Craig B.; Howley, Aimee A. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
Most of the recent literature on the achievement effects of school size has examined school and district performance. These studies have demonstrated substantial benefits of smaller school and district size in impoverished settings. To date, however, no work has adequately examined the relationship of size and socioeconomic status (SES) with…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Academic Achievement, School Size, Rural Areas
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Timperley, Helen S. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2005
Increasingly school leaders are being challenged to take a more instructionally focused role in their schools. This paper tracks the leadership challenges through a change process involving an assistant principal and a group of teachers, supported by a consultant, through four phases of an action research project. During the project the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Assistant Principals, Teacher Administrator Relationship
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Trimble, Susan; Gay, Anne; Matthews, Jan – Middle School Journal (J3), 2005
Advances in technology available to access test data coupled with the challenges of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) are pushing schools to grapple with the complexities of test score data. With the current frenzy to raise test scores, there is little attention being paid to teacher development in learning to use data to improve learning. For the past…
Descriptors: Scores, Academic Achievement, Data Interpretation, Evaluation Utilization
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Kelman, Steven – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2006
One answer to the question of why government organizations don't perform better - common in academic "public choice" literature but also in folk wisdom--is that resources come too easily, independent of performance. Some business management literature suggests that a crisis in resource flows can force successful change--"necessity is the mother of…
Descriptors: Competition, Behavior Modification, Federal Government, Behavior Change
Arnold, James C. – 1994
This paper explores technical questions of ethnographic study and uses as an example an actual episode observing college students and the subsequent decisions and steps taken to produce a written account. In particular, the paper seeks to address the question of researcher subjectivity by examining some issues relating to the practice of…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, College Students, Data Interpretation, Drinking
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