Learning analytics (LA) is a significant field of study to examine and identify difficulties the novice programmers face while learning how to program. Despite producing notable research by the community in the specified area, rare work is observed to synthesize these research efforts and discover the dimensions that guide the future research of…

As reporting of effect sizes in evaluation studies has proliferated, researchers and consumers of research need tools for interpreting or benchmarking the magnitude of those effect sizes that are relevant to the intervention, target population, and outcome measure being considered. Similarly, researchers planning education studies with social and…

In a MOOC environment, each student's interaction with the course content is a crucial clue for learning analytics, which offers an opportunity to record learner activity of unprecedented scale. In online learning, the educators and the administrators need to get informed with students' learning states since the performance of unsupervised…

Using a multi-case approach, we examined students' behavior patterns in interacting with a serious game environment using the emerging technologies of learning analytics and data visualization in order to understand how the patterns may vary according to students' learning characteristics. The results confirmed some preliminary findings from our…

The learning sciences community's interest in learning analytics (LA) has been growing steadily over the past several years. Three recent symposia on the theme (at the American Educational Research Association 2011 and 2012 annual conferences, and the International Conference of the Learning Sciences 2012), organized by Paulo Blikstein, led…

Ethnographic research (1) observes human behavior in its natural setting over a substantial period of time, (2) claims that classes of events are better understood through intensive examination of carefully selected particular cases, (3) incorporates as many of the complexities and variables into a setting as possible, and (4) is usually comprised…

A study was carried out to obtain systematic quantitative data about the types of verbal behavior used by instructors and students in teaching and learning a foreign language. (Author)

This tongue-in-cheek article writted by the late Fred Barnes was first published in May 1967. It is being reprinted in this issue as a reminder that useful educational research avoids the pitfall of pointlessly massaging the obvious. (Editor)

The basic hypothesis of this paper was that involvement or non-involvement in athletics, with the concomitant theoretical explanations, can be extended to identifying behavioral differences between athletes, based on their degree of team involvement. (Author/RK)

The general aim of the study was to gain insights into the thought processes and learning strategies of the beginning reader. It is based on the premise that since reading is a language task, the process of learning to read may show parallels to the process of learning to speak. (Editor)

A study compared pupil perceptions of class position with preference rankings by the teacher. Sample was comprised of one class of eight to 11 year old students in a Catholic school in England. Findings indicated that the teacher's opinion of a child is an important influence on pupil performance and self concept. (Author/DB)

A case record methodology for documenting the behavior of individual children in the Head Start Planned Variation program is reported. Planned Variation is an attempt to provide longitudinal, comparative information as to the effects of formulated models on children served by preschool education programs. The report documents the behavior of…

Three observational techniques are illustrated in a comparison of verbal disciplinary techniques--managing, threatening, and describing behaviors--as used by a regular teacher and a student teacher. Modeling of classroom teacher's behaviors is also discussed. (RAO)

Describes a study using two types of macroanalytic analyses of observed teacher behaviors in the classroom. The findings of the study showed one of the macroanalytic techniques to be more effective as it identified broader behavior patterns occurring over longer periods of time. (MLH)

Author addressed himself to the problem of designing effective environments for exceptional children. He developed essential "polar paradigms" for the observation of children's behavior in relation to their physical setting. (Editor/RK)