Many of the analytical models commonly used in educational research often aim to maximize explained variance and identify variable importance within models. These models are useful for understanding general ideas and trends, but give limited insight into the individuals within said models. Data envelopment analysis (DEA), is a method rooted in…

Randomized experiments involving education interventions are typically implemented as cluster randomized trials, with schools serving as clusters. To design such a study, it is critical to understand the degree to which learning outcomes vary between versus within clusters (schools), specifically the intraclass correlation coefficient. It is also…

The goal of this study is to identify major research trends and focus in the field of educational research. To this end, 22,000 titles consisting of PhD dissertations, journal papers and conference proceedings were retrieved from the ERIC (Education Resources Information Center - https://eric-ed-gov.bibliotheek.ehb.be/?) database in the period from 2009 to 2018. A…

Using script-based tracking to gain insights into the way students learn or process language information can be traced as far back as to the 1980s. Nevertheless, researchers continue to face challenges in collecting and studying this type of data. The objective of this study is to propose data sharing through data repositories as a way to (a) ease…

The trouble with education research is that the research is burdened with trouble before it begins. Working as a poststructural education researcher and engaged in a recent research project that sought to engage with questions of teacher identity, I employed an alternative data elicitation method of literary response groups--similar to that of…

The 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Optics Velley Kingdom Plaza Hotel, Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. This years conference features two invited talks by: Dr. Jie Tang, Associate Professor with the Department of Computer…

The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…

This article reports a synthesis of intervention studies conducted between 1994 and 2004 with older students (Grades 6-12) with reading difficulties. Interventions addressing decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension were included if they measured the effects on reading comprehension. Twenty-nine studies were located and synthesized.…

Three historic examples demonstrate the vital role data displays (graphs and tables) have played in important discoveries. Levels of information that form the basis of a theory of display are described, and steps to improve the quality of tabular presentations in educational writing are outlined. (SLD)

This study reports an attempt to compare traditional cloze test procedure against multiple choice questioning, using first, second and third grade Ss, to determine if the same relationships between the two measures exist at the beginning stages of reading. (Editor/RK)

The primary purpose of the study was the improvement of reading, listening and verbal comprehension skills through the use of six weeks of compressed speech during language arts classes. (Author)

Studies the relationship between subjective word frequency and some of the most common word attributes, familiarity, associability and pronounciability, all measured with the method of magnitude estimation. Also considers how individuals scale words in terms of comprehensibility and at the same time how this dimension is related to the other…

The accuracy rate of 125 second-year and third-year infants randomly selected from five infants departments was assessed by means of counting errors made in reading from a current reading book. (Author)

A 2 X 2 factorial design employing two levels each of type of method and preference for method was used to evaluate the respective effects of the factors on comprehension. (Editor)

After speed-reading partisans questioned the criticisms in a Psychology Today article, another psychologist conducted a controlled study of speed readers. As we said before, "Speed Readers Don't Read; They Skim". (Editor)