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Vinay Kumar Yadav; Shakti Prasad – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2024
In sample survey analysis, accurate population mean estimation is an important task, but traditional approaches frequently ignore the intricacies of real-world data, leading to biassed results. In order to handle uncertainties, indeterminacies, and ambiguity, this work presents an innovative approach based on neutrosophic statistics. We proposed…
Descriptors: Sampling, Statistical Bias, Predictor Variables, Predictive Measurement
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Monica Irungbam; Shailata Prisi; Ritika Shrivastava; Binita Goswami – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2024
Medical science is a dynamic field of knowledge that is constantly broadening with upcoming clinical research and analysis. Traditional medical education has been focused on textbook-based recall assessments--closed book assessment (CBA). However, the availability of newer technologies has made the accessibility to encyclopedic knowledge…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Tests, Conventional Instruction
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Joag, Sushama D. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
A simple method to introduce the modern periodic table of elements at the high school level as a game of solving a crossword puzzle is presented here. A survey to test the effectiveness of this new method relative to the conventional method, involving use of a wall-mounted chart of the periodic table, was conducted on a convenience sample. This…
Descriptors: Puzzles, Secondary School Science, Chemistry, Teaching Methods
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Kothari, Brij; Bandyopadhyay, Tathagata – International Review of Education, 2010
This paper takes a close look at India's literacy rate by exploring whether the officially "literate" can read and at what level. In a large sample, aged 7+, drawn from four Hindi-speaking states, two methods were used to measure literacy. One was the standard Census Method (CM) which relies on self-reporting and the other was a Reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decoding (Reading), Knowledge Level, Literacy
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Goyal, Sangeeta – Education Economics, 2009
Empirical evidence shows that the quality of learning in public schools is very low in India. There is also a robust belief that private schools offer better-quality learning at a lower cost and are a cost-effective alternative to public schools. Most of the evidence on which this latter claim is based does not correct for selection bias--students…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
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Edmundson, Andrea – Educational Media International, 2007
The most developed, progressive, and economically stable countries in the world are those that are technologically advanced. Technological change and the building of human capabilities are interrelated: each requires the development of the other for success and the "rethinking [of] educational systems to meet the new challenges of…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Distance Education, Technology Education, Science and Society