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Bickel, Robert – Guilford Publications, 2007
This book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to multilevel modeling, a powerful tool for analyzing relationships between an individual level dependent variable, such as student reading achievement, and individual-level and contextual explanatory factors, such as gender and neighborhood quality. Helping readers build on the statistical…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Social Sciences, Statistical Analysis, Structural Equation Models
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Adolph, Stephen C. – Journal of Statistics Education, 2007
I describe a group exercise that I give to my undergraduate biostatistics class. The exercise involves analyzing a series of 200 consecutive basketball free-throw attempts to determine whether there is any evidence for sequential dependence in the probability of making a free-throw. The students are given the exercise before they have learned the…
Descriptors: Probability, Undergraduate Students, College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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Muske, Kenneth R.; Myers, John A. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2007
A realistic applied chemical engineering experimental design and statistical analysis project is documented in this article. This project has been implemented as part of the professional development and applied statistics courses at Villanova University over the past five years. The novel aspects of this project are that the students are given a…
Descriptors: Research Design, Chemical Engineering, Statistical Analysis, Information Retrieval
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Ramos, Francisco – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2009
This study examined opinions about some theoretical and practical tenets of bilingualism and bilingual education, as well as about the instructional use of English language learners' (ELLs) native languages in the classroom, of 77 teachers from Spain working in California as part of the California/Spain Visiting Teachers Program. In their…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Academic Achievement
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Sotos, Ana Elisa Castro; Vanhoof, Stijn; Van den Noortgate, Wim; Onghena, Patrick – Educational Research Review, 2007
A solid understanding of "inferential statistics" is of major importance for designing and interpreting empirical results in any scientific discipline. However, students are prone to many misconceptions regarding this topic. This article structurally summarizes and describes these misconceptions by presenting a systematic review of publications…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Research Methodology, Statistical Inference, Statistics
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Hubbard, Miles J. – Mathematics Teacher, 2007
Students manipulate data algebraically, and statistically to create models applied to a falling ball. They also borrow tools from arithmetic progressions to examine the relationship between the velocity and the distance the ball falls. (Contains 2 tables and 5 figures.)
Descriptors: Motion, Mathematical Concepts, Models, Mathematics Skills
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Agrawal, D. K.; Khan, Q. M. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2008
All stakeholders are aware of the importance of measuring performance in higher education at the university/college level. Generally the performance indicators used for this purpose have focused on graduation rates and/or final examination scores, rather than the performance-enabling processes. Further, the most commonly used method for knowledge…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Evaluation, Student Attitudes, Graduation Rate
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van der Schaaf, Marieke F.; Stokking, Karel M.; Verloop, Nico – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This study concerns the relation between teachers' beliefs towards teaching behaviour and their actual teaching behaviour in teacher portfolio assessment. We analysed the beliefs and behaviour of 18 teachers as described in their portfolios. In addition, each portfolio was independently assessed by two trained raters on eight content standards and…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Bularzik, Joseph – Journal of Chemical Education, 2007
Measuring the mass of many pennies has been used as an easy way to generate data for exercises with statistical analysis. In this general chemistry laboratory the densities of pennies are measured by weighting the pennies and using two different methods to measure the volumes. There is much to be discovered by the students on the variability of…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Measurement Techniques, Chemistry, Scientific Concepts
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Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine pre-service physics teachers' attitudes towards assessment. It was also aimed to examine the factors affecting their attitudes. Two factors were considered. The first was difficulties that pre-service teachers experienced relating to assessment. The second factor was teachers' self-efficacy regarding…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Constructivism (Learning), Self Efficacy, Physics
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Henderson, Susan; Petrosino, Anthony; Guckenburg, Sarah; Hamilton, Stephen – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2008
This technical brief examines whether, after two years of implementation, schools in Massachusetts using quarterly benchmark exams aligned with state standards in middle school mathematics showed greater gains in student achievement than those not doing so. A quasi-experimental design, using covariate matching and comparative interrupted…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, State Standards, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement
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Hess, Amber Victoria Irish – Journal of Chemical Education, 2007
A study conducted shows that if digital photography is combined with regular thin-layer chromatography (TLC), it could perform highly improved qualitative analysis as well as make accurate quantitative analysis possible for a much lower cost than commercial equipment. The findings suggest that digitally enhanced TLC (DE-TLC) is low-cost and easy…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Photography
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Hiebert, Sara M. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2007
The strong-inference protocol puts into action the important concepts in Platt's often-assigned, classic paper on the strong-inference method (10). Yet, perhaps because students are frequently performing experiments with known outcomes, the protocols they write as undergraduates are usually little more than step-by-step instructions for performing…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Research Tools, Science Experiments, Prediction
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Johnson, Charles D.; Swanson, Eldon B. – Technology Teacher, 1992
Defines statistical quality control (SQC) as a method used to analyze people, materials, machines, or processes by statistical methods. Explains why a technology educator would include SQC in some courses and describes elements of an SQC system. (JOW)
Descriptors: Business, Industry, Quality Control, Statistical Analysis
Griffin, Cynthia C.; Kilgore, Karen L.; Winn, Judith A.; Otis-Wilborn, Amy – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2008
During the past decade, researchers in special education have begun to investigate the unique and complex challenges encountered by novice special educators. These investigations have documented numerous factors in special education settings that contribute to the stresses of the first year of teaching for them, including: role ambiguity, students…
Descriptors: Investigations, Role Conflict, Disabilities, Special Education Teachers
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