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Jabbari, Lotfali – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Education is not merely provision of information from trainer to learner, but the point is that this person requires practical educations for some of its tasks. By considering industrialization of manufacturing processes, economic development cannot happen without considering the Technical and vocational education and training (TVET). Since the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Corporations, Educational Needs
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Oliver, Anthony C.; Pratt, Leigh A.; Normand, Matthew P. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2015
To gather information about the functional behavior assessment (FBA) methods behavior analysts use in practice, we sent a web-based survey to 12,431 behavior analysts certified by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board. Ultimately, 724 surveys were returned, with the results suggesting that most respondents regularly use FBA methods, especially…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Professional Personnel, Surveys, Research Methodology
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Broome, Jessica – Field Methods, 2015
Growing rates of nonresponse to telephone surveys can contribute to nonresponse error, and interviewers contribute differentially to nonresponse. Why do some telephone interviewers have better response rates than others? This study uncovered a critical behavior of successful telephone interviewers over the course of introductions: responsive…
Descriptors: Telephone Surveys, Interviews, Response Rates (Questionnaires), Behavior
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Rodriguez, Leslie A.; Sana, Mariano; Sisk, Blake – Field Methods, 2015
We examine the effects of interviewer-respondent familiarity on both response patterns and rates of item nonresponse when self-administered questions (SAQs) are used. We use SAQ data from a survey in which the researchers experimentally ensured that there would be varying degrees of familiarity between interviewers and respondents. Our results…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Interpersonal Relationship, Response Style (Tests), Surveys
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Shay, Marnee; Heck, Deborah – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2015
This article will discuss some of the findings from a qualitative research project that explored the connections between alternative education and Indigenous learners. This study investigated how flexi school leaders reported they were supporting Indigenous young people to remain engaged in education. The results of the survey provide demographic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Education, Indigenous Populations, Qualitative Research
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Cunradi, Carol B.; Todd, Michael; Mair, Christina – Journal of Drug Education, 2015
This study analyzed whether discrepant (husband or wife use only) or concordant (both partners use) patterns of heavy drinking, marijuana use, and smoking are associated with increased risk for male-to-female partner violence and female-to-male partner violence among adult couples. Based on a geographic sample of married or cohabiting couples…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Marijuana, Smoking, Family Violence
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Stovall, Holly A.; Baker-Sperry, Lori; Dallinger, Judith M. – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
Popularised feminist discourse has devalued daily cooking and implicitly defined it as work that reinforces women's second-class status. In an era of climate change linked to industrialised foods and disease epidemics caused by the modern Western diet, kitchen work has acquired political importance. Daily cooking must be understood as public, as…
Descriptors: Feminism, Environmental Education, Housework, Home Management
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Rossi, Federica; Rosli, Ainurul – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
The issue of what indicators are most appropriate in order to measure the performance of universities in knowledge transfer (KT) activities remains relatively under-investigated. The main aim of this paper is to identify and discuss the limitations to the current measurements of university-industry KT performance, and propose some directions for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transfer of Training, School Business Relationship, Surveys
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Akib, Erwin; Ghafar, Mohamad Najib Abdul – International Education Studies, 2015
This study explains assessment for learning instrumentation, especially in higher education. The population of this study was 100 lecturers of the Muhammadiyah Makassar University, Indonesia. A total of 50 items from six construct were analyzed and used to determine the reliability and validity of the questionnaire. The result shows that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Questionnaires, Test Reliability
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Jones, Steven R. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2015
This study aims to broadly examine how commonly various conceptualizations of the definite integral are drawn on by students as they attempt to explain the meaning of integral expressions. Previous studies have shown that certain conceptualizations, such as the area under a curve or the values of an anti-derivative, may be less productive in…
Descriptors: Calculus, College Students, Mathematical Concepts, Incidence
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Cox, Bradley E.; Dean, Jessica G.; Kowalski, Robin – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
Previous studies suggest the loss of a loved one is a common experience among college students. This paper draws from 2 independent but complementary studies to (a) update statistics regarding the scale of student grieving, (b) characterize the short and long term consequences of loss among college students, and (c) identify factors that deter…
Descriptors: College Students, Grief, Coping, Death
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Maeda, Hotaka – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2015
Likert scales are used to make relative and absolute judgments about measures of attitude. Despite its ubiquitous use, only few studies have investigated the effects of altering the configurations of the response options. The purpose of this experiment was to explore the effects of response option orientation and directionality in Likert scales…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Online Surveys, Responses, Test Reliability
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
This publication presents early estimates of apprentice and trainee commencements for the December quarter 2014. Indicative information about this quarter is presented here; the most recent figures are estimated, taking into account reporting lags that occur at the time of data collection. The early trend estimates are derived from the National…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Trainees, Trend Analysis, Educational Trends
Schmitt, Lisa – Online Submission, 2015
A thorough analysis of the AISD TELL survey results for 2013 through 2015 indicated two items consistently best reflected staff climate/working conditions at every school level each year: (a) School leadership makes a sustained effort to address teacher concerns about school leadership, and (b) Overall, my school is a good place to work and learn.
Descriptors: School Districts, Teacher Surveys, Educational Environment, Teaching Conditions
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Hoang, Ngoc Thi Huyen – Language Education & Assessment, 2019
As validity pertains to test use rather than the test itself, using a test for unintended purposes requires a new validation program using additional evidence from relevant sources. This small-scale study contributes to the validation of the use of originally academic language tests--the International English Language Testing System and the Test…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Immigrants, Immigration, Testing Problems
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