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Gemici, Sinan; Rojewski, Jay W.; Lee, In Heok – International Journal of Training Research, 2012
Evaluations of vocational education and training (VET) programs play a key role in informing training policy in Australia and elsewhere. Increasingly, such evaluations use observational data from surveys or administrative collections to assess the effectiveness of VET programs and interventions. The difficulty associated with using observational…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Probability, Statistical Analysis
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Elias, Gordon; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
Examines difficulties associated with the use of conversational features in the analysis of mother-infant vocalization episodes. Observations of six mother-infant dyads revealed difficulties involving (1) pooling of data; (2) the unit of analysis; and (3) selection of appropriate "expected" values for dyadic parameters used in tests of…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Foreign Countries, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis
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Fisher, Darrell; And Others – Research in Science Education, 1995
Describes the use of the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) in senior biology classes (n=489) and students' perceptions of their interpersonal relationships with their teachers in the classroom environment and its association with student outcomes. Reports that student attitude scores were higher in classrooms in which students perceived…
Descriptors: Biology, Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship
French, Margaret – 1984
The supplantation approach of this study hypothesized that media attributes may serve to bridge the processing link between learner aptitude capacity and the demands of a concept attainment task. Subjects were 492 males aged 16-21, drawn from a College of Technical and Further Education in Melbourne, Australia. All subjects were trade apprentices,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Color, Concept Formation
Farish, Stephen J. – 1984
The stability of Rasch test item difficulty parameters was investigated under varying conditions. Data were taken from a mathematics achievement test administered to over 2,000 Australian students. The experiments included: (1) relative stability of the Rasch, traditional, and z-item difficulty parameters using different sample sizes and designs;…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Estimation (Mathematics), Foreign Countries
Technology Univ.-Sydney, Broadway (Australia). Research Centre for Vocational Education and Training. – 1999
This publication is comprised of 12 position papers from the National Equity Workshop held at the University of Technology Sidney (Australia) at which participants summarized their positions on the way equity should be understood, their views on the strengths and weaknesses of current vocational education and training (VET) policy, and what they…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Community Organizations, Correctional Education