998 Search Results for Basic Measurement for Education
The general challenge in online education is the failure to embrace the paradigm that online programs are fundamentally different than traditional pedagogy, and must include alternative ways to link learning styles and learning outcomes. Failure to Continue Reading...
This engagement is reported to be highly valuable to most students as they connect with one another on relevant classroom topics as applied to life contexts. E-learning in the graduate teaching setting has changed the paradigm of student teaching as Continue Reading...
Bayes Probability
Can Bayes Confirmation Theory Give an Adequate Explanation for Confirmation of Scientific Theories?
Theorizing in science is a complex and time-consuming undertaking. The theorist uses collected evidence from some means of scienti Continue Reading...
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educational system is failing?
In his manifesto, Earth in Mind, environmental activist and educator David W. Orr states that his pro-environmentalist policies and his philosophy of education are united. Going against the current tendency, even amon Continue Reading...
These include: question/answer, lecture, demonstration, discussion, individual student projects, laboratory, technological activities, and supervised practice. Previous research has demonstrated that the use of informal knowledge, real world setting Continue Reading...
Further sub-categorization allows for greater comparison and contrasting of different categories and can make the data sets more meaningful. Not all of these codes will be decided beforehand -- in fact, it can be more enriching for the final analysi Continue Reading...
This type of measurement is best used when the data has also been captured at the ordinal or ratio level as the orthogonality of the data set is reliable (Marshall, Ruiz, Bredillet, 2008). Extrapolating statistics to a broader population is also dep Continue Reading...
Web-based technologies are in fact the essence of distance learning because students from all over the world can attend courses they could not if the were confined to a geographic location.
Organizational and reference tools including digital calen Continue Reading...
The main concentration of this study was on the various approaches that were adopted in numerous educational institutes and universities and how their incorporation of cooperative learning strategies proved constructive. The demographics or spectrum Continue Reading...
According to Flowers (2002), the first vector concerning "developing competence" can assume three individual forms: (a) intellectual, (b) physical, and - interpersonal. The second vector, "managing emotions," is the stage at which college students Continue Reading...
The town, originally born of the railway, remains strongly on the maps of Washington as a small college town, and the railway, which brought the teachers college to the modern, maintains its place in the town. The historical society of Bellingham an Continue Reading...
educate our children. As increasing numbers of affluent parents enroll their children in pre-school programs that offer more than just the traditional "play and supervision," but also provide early instruction in basics like reading and math, the qu Continue Reading...
Chi-Square Analysis
Chi square analysis is a way of comparing categorical responses from two or more different groups (Ryan & Eck, Unk.). This comparison can help reveal whether there is a relationship between the two different groups, and also Continue Reading...
transforms correlations among a set of observed variables into smaller number of factors, containing essential information about the linear inter-relationships among the original test scores (Kriegel, Kroger, Sander, & Zimek, 2011). Factor analy Continue Reading...
National Institute of Justice (NIJ): Department of Justice
Research question/hypothesis
Importance of research to general knowledge
Methodology (Data collection approach, collection of data and analysis techniques)
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Mathematics Textbooks
Technology used in Mathematics Textbooks
Mathematics probably frustrates more students than any other subject in their course load. It seems that a logical, left brain is something that must be inborn and many students are not Continue Reading...
Mamikon even takes this simple observation about curves to establish a new relationship between the tractrix and exponential curves (Apostol & Mamikon 2002).
Mamikon's visual understanding and explanation of calculus is not limited to two-diemn Continue Reading...
From each of the four classes, the researcher will randomly select 5 students to undertake the CSCL tool teaching method, this will ensure that the students are selected without any conscious or unconscious prejudices. These students (20 from the f Continue Reading...
Human Performance Technology (HPT) uses a wide range of interventions that are drawn from many other disciplines including, behavioral psychology, instructional systems design, organizational development, and human resources management. It stresses a Continue Reading...
Many books at the time were examined to determine whether they had pro-communist content and if so there was a movement to remove those books from the shelves (Tenney, 1947).
At stake here were much more far-reaching intellectual freedom issues tha Continue Reading...
data collection includes survey form, structured interviews using closed ended questions, and gathering information regarding a sample size appropriate to analyze and draw conclusion on the basis of the research results. The statistical techniques a Continue Reading...
Library System: Formal Analysis of University of Westminster
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The University of Westminster is a large university system located in London, England that serves global student populations. The University of Westminster has 4 campus library Continue Reading...
Classroom Management, and Organization Plan for a Pre-K Trainable Mentally Handicapped (TMH) class with students ages 3-5. The plan reflects one's leadership and management style in order to develop a comprehensive plan for effective classroom manag Continue Reading...
SPSS Data Analysis
Does the number of average study hours per week during the semester accurately predict final exam grades?
Independent variable: average number of study hours per week.
Hours is continuous data because it can take on any value be Continue Reading...
Future of the Internet
There are certain events and inventions that are bound to change the world and how we see it forever. The internet is for sure one of those inventions that finds itself in this prestigious list of inventions, right along with Continue Reading...
Personality Tests REVISED
In taking the Myers-Briggs personality test, my results indicated ENFJ, or Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Judging. One interpretation calls this type "The Teacher" for shorthand (presumably because Extraversion is required f Continue Reading...
In a study entitled Lost on the Web: Does Web Distribution Stimulate or Depress Television Viewing?, it was found out that Web distribution of TV programs positively influenced the overall viewing of TV network programming (Waldfogel, 2007). A joint Continue Reading...
A particular individual might look for a solution to a problem which will have a least effect on the organization, whereas another individual might look for a solution to shake the organization. (Scott, 2007)
4) if a team is not at its most efficie Continue Reading...
As Kleiner & Movo*****z-Hadar show, the burden of proof lies with the mathematician eager to uncover some unknown universal law or theorem. His or her colleagues will, as the authors point out, be harangued and criticized because of a general re Continue Reading...
Healing with Statistics
There are numerous ways in which statistics are used in a standard healthcare organization. Statistical measurements and analyses are used to track patient costs and hospital/healthcare organization expenses, to determine ap Continue Reading...
Managing and Improving Quality
Methodology for implementation of performance measurement
Information technology applications of Mayo Clinic
How benchmarks and milestones are involved in quality
Performance and quality measures are aligned to the Continue Reading...
Nursing Program
As nursing constantly migrate toward professionalism and development of the profession, the notion of erudition becomes increasingly important. Erudition in nursing is defined as those actions that steadily advance nursing practice Continue Reading...
Organizational Change Plan -- Part III:
As explained in the previous articles, the setting up of an Electronic Medical Record in a healthcare facility is a positive measure to improve the efficiency of the facility and cope up with the constantly ch Continue Reading...
The research of Wofendale (1991) demonstrated the effectiveness of parents who provided support for the learning process of their child and holds that involvement in schools by parents is likely the primary indicator of performance of the child in s Continue Reading...
Incentives and Performance
Kopelman, R., et al. (2012); Further Development of a Measure of Theory X and Y Managerial Assumptions. Journal of Managerial Issues. 24 (4): 450-62.
Certainly, there is no one best way to ensure that either employees or Continue Reading...
Efforts should be made to meet these needs and strive harder to excess those expectations. Second principle is the proper leadership within an organization. Good leaders develop unity of purpose and direction of any organization, Leaders should make Continue Reading...
ELearning in Corporate Environments
Organizations and eLearning
Organizations today are in a continuous state of evolution. There is consistent learning, interacting, and implementation of new solutions to organizational challenges. This means that Continue Reading...