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LaCroix, Kim; LaCroix, Sean – Community College Enterprise, 2017
The proximity effect--whether distance from an instructor correlates with grades--has been the topic of many articles dating back nearly 100 years. Despite this attention, a cleavage in the literature remains. Some authors argue that increased proximity to the instructor negatively relates with academic performance while others maintain no…
Descriptors: Proximity, Classroom Environment, Space Utilization, Literature Reviews
Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus; Holden, Kristian; Brown, Nate – Center for Education Data & Research, 2014
Barriers to the cross-state mobility of the teacher workforce can have undesirable effects on the teacher workforce and student outcomes. While a large literature addresses issues related to within-state mobility, very little is known about patterns of cross-state mobility. This paper addresses that research gap. We describe features of Oregon's…
Descriptors: Barriers, Faculty Mobility, Experienced Teachers, Beginning Teachers
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Shaw, Rachel J.; Willett, Peter – Information Processing and Management, 1993
Examines research on the observed values of retrieval effectiveness obtained in searches of files of nearest neighbor document clusters. Results show interdocument similarities used to generate nearest-neighbor clusters are significantly different from randomly generated clusters. (Contains 14 references.) (EAM)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Cluster Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Information Retrieval