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Goldberg, Tsafrir; Schwarz, Baruch B.; Porat, Dan – Cognition and Instruction, 2011
A group of 64 Israeli twelfth-grade students of two different ethnic backgrounds participated in an experiment exploring the effects of argumentative design and social identity on the learning of a charged, ethnicity-related historical controversy. Students were divided into two learning conditions: an argumentative-disciplinary condition and a…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Textbooks, Essays, Foreign Countries
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis
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Glass, Thomas E. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1977
This article focuses on the use of compulsory busing to achieve school integration. The effects of busing on Black self-concept, academic achievement, student teacher relationships, resegregation of Black students by tracking in integrated schools, and community attitudes are examined. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Bus Transportation, Busing
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Gutfreund, R. – Oxford Review of Education, 1979
Analyzes the failure of three approaches currently used to explain educational under-achievement by working class children. Recommends study of distinctions between educational content and process, material and cultural insulation, and teacher-student-parent interactions. Strategy suggested is small group instruction emphasizing affective learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Change
Newitt, Jane, Ed. – 1979
These essays deal explicitly with the future of the public schools and implicitly with the problem of making responsible predictions. Following an introduction by Herman Kahn, the first two essays deal with the social and social policy context of the schools. B. Bruce-Briggs contrasts alternative long-term and current cultural trends. Jane Newitt,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Bureaucracy, Citizen Participation