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Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Holden, Kris; Brown, Nate – Grantee Submission, 2015
Due to data limitations, very little is known about patterns of cross-state teacher mobility. It is an important issue because barriers to cross-state mobility create labor market frictions that could lead both current and prospective teachers to opt out of the teaching profession. In this paper, we match state-level administrative data sets from…
Descriptors: State Surveys, Faculty Mobility, Comparative Analysis, Statistical Data
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Jeff Witmer – Journal of Statistics Education, 2015
There are many well-known data sets that can be used to illustrate Simpson's Paradox. The Stand Your Ground data presented here shows Simpson's Paradox. In these data, race plays the key role--and not in the way that some students expect.
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Minority Groups, Racial Factors, Statistical Data
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Chudagr, Amita; Luschei, Thomas F. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
The objective of this commentary is to call attention to the feasibility and importance of large-scale, systematic, quantitative analysis in international and comparative education research. We contend that although many existing databases are under- or unutilized in quantitative international-comparative research, these resources present the…
Descriptors: Information Sources, International Education, Comparative Education, Educational Policy
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Duarte, Oscar Daniel – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
This article aims to explain the ultimate organisation of the Argentinian educational system during the 1870s as a result of the 1873 world economic crisis, which led, among other measures, to budget cuts. These had serious consequences in both curriculum design and the general structure of the different educational levels. Such a system fostered…
Descriptors: Educational History, Economic Climate, Foreign Countries, Budgets
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Woo, Jennie H.; Velez, Erin Dunlop – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
Statistics in Brief publications present descriptive data in tabular formats to provide useful information to a broad audience, including members of the general public. They address simple and topical issues and questions. Using data from 2011-12, this Statistics in Brief updates and expands on a previous National Center for Education Statistics…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Student Loan Programs, Private Financial Support, Statistical Data
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Stander, Julian; Dalla Valle, Luciana – Journal of Statistics Education, 2017
We discuss the learning goals, content, and delivery of a University of Plymouth intensive module delivered over four weeks entitled MATH1608PP Understanding Big Data from Social Networks, aimed at introducing students to a broad range of techniques used in modern Data Science. This module made use of R, accessed through RStudio, and some popular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Mathematics, Statistics
Pollard, Kelvin; Jacobsen, Linda A. – Appalachian Regional Commission, 2017
This study examines state- and county-level data on population, age, race and ethnicity, housing occupancy and housing tenure, education, labor force, employment and unemployment, income and poverty, health insurance coverage, disability status, migration patterns, and veteran status from the 2011-2015 American Community Survey (ACS) for the 13…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Population Distribution, Population Trends, Age Differences
National Academy of Education, 2017
This is a critical time to understand the benefits and risks of educational research using large data sets. Massive quantities of educational data can now be stored, analyzed, and shared. State longitudinal data systems can track individual students from pre-K through college and work. Districts and schools keep detailed data on individual…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Educational Research, Privacy, Student Rights
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Arbeit, Caren A.; Horn, Laura – National Center for Education Statistics, 2017
In 2012, more than 13 percent of undergraduates attended for-profit postsecondary institutions, up from 9 percent in 2009. The rapid growth of the for-profit sector has renewed public scrutiny and concern about the historically poor labor market outcomes of students at many of these institutions and the amount of debt students in these…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Enrollment Rate, Demography, Student Characteristics
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Moraveji, Behjat; Jafarian, Koorosh – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2014
The aim of this paper is to provide an introduction of new imputation algorithms for estimating missing values from official statistics in larger data sets of data pre-processing, or outliers. The goal is to propose a new algorithm called IRMI (iterative robust model-based imputation). This algorithm is able to deal with all challenges like…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Computation, Robustness (Statistics), Regression (Statistics)
McMillen, Brad; Gilleland, Kevin; Muli, Juliana – Wake County Public School System, 2014
In April 2014 the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) released its annual statewide Dropout Report covering the 2012-13 school year. This district report contains the dropout rate for WCPSS high school students and also depicts rates for other large school districts in North Carolina (NC) in addition to selected WCPSS student…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, High School Students, School Districts, Educational Trends
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Osaci-Costache, Gabriela; Dulama, Maria Eliza; Ilovan, Oana-Ramona – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2013
We started this study after noticing that university students make certain mistakes when elaborating column charts. The objectives of our research were to: 1) analyse the knowledge integrated into the competence of elaborating column charts; 2) analyse the procedure(s) to elaborate these charts; 3) analyse the mistakes that university students…
Descriptors: Geography, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students
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Blecic, Deborah D.; Wiberley, Stephen E., Jr.; Fiscella, Joan B.; Bahnmaier-Blaszczak, Sara; Lowery, Rebecca – College & Research Libraries, 2013
This paper presents methods to develop metrics that compare Big Deal journal packages and the journals within those packages. Deal-level metrics guide selection of a Big Deal for termination. Journal-level metrics guide selection of individual subscriptions from journals previously provided by a terminated deal. The paper argues that, while the…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Library Services, Library Materials, Comparative Analysis
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Adekunjo, Olalekan Abraham; Adepoju, Samuel Olusegun; Adeola, Anuoluwapo Odebunmi – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The study assessed users' information needs and satisfaction in selected seminary libraries in Oyo State, Nigeria. This paper employed the descriptive survey research design, whereby the expost-facto was employed with a sample size of three hundred (300) participants, selected from six seminaries located in Ibadan, Oyo and Ogbomoso, all in Oyo…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Users (Information), Theological Education, Foreign Countries
Christensen, James M.; Jones, Brian; Cooper, Jessica Rose; McAllister, Laura; Ware, Mark B.; West, Richard E. – Educational Technology, 2015
This study examines the trends of the "International Journal of Technology and Design Education" over the past decade (2005-2014). The researchers looked at trends in article topics, research methods, authorship, and article citations by analyzing keyword frequencies, performing word counts of article titles, classifying studies…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Publications, Technology Education, Design
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