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Akiyama, Yuka; Saito, Kazuyo – Modern Language Journal, 2016
This study examined whether 30 learners of Japanese in the United States who engaged in a semester-long video-based eTandem course made gains in global language comprehensibility, that is, ease of understanding (Derwing & Munro, 2009), and what linguistic correlates contributed to these gains. Speech excerpts from Week 2 and 8 of tandem…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Correlation, Telecommunications, Grammar
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Sayin, Ayfer – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
In the formation education that is carried out within the scope of undergraduate and non-thesis graduate programs within the same university, different criteria are used to evaluate students' success. In this study, classification accuracy of letter grades that are generated to evaluate students' success using relative and absolute criteria and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Grading, Evaluation Criteria
Crossley, Scott; McNamara, Danielle S.; Baker, Ryan; Wang, Yuan; Paquette, Luc; Barnes, Tiffany; Bergner, Yoav – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
Completion rates for massive open online classes (MOOCs) are notoriously low, but learner intent is an important factor. By studying students who drop out despite their intent to complete the MOOC, it may be possible to develop interventions to improve retention and learning outcomes. Previous research into predicting MOOC completion has focused…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Information Retrieval, Data Analysis