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Edwards, John; Hart, Kaden; Shrestha, Raj – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2023
Analysis of programming process data has become popular in computing education research and educational data mining in the last decade. This type of data is quantitative, often of high temporal resolution, and it can be collected non-intrusively while the student is in a natural setting. Many levels of granularity can be obtained, such as…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Computer Science Education, Learning Analytics, Research Methodology
De Los Reyes, Andres; Cook, Clayton R.; Gresham, Frank M.; Makol, Bridget A.; Wang, Mo – Grantee Submission, 2019
Psychosocial functioning plays a key role in students' wellbeing and performance inside and outside of school. As such, techniques designed to measure and improve psychosocial functioning factor prominently in school-based service delivery and research. Given that the different contexts (e.g., school, home, community) in which students exist vary…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Information Sources, Student Adjustment
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Abdulkadir Palanci; Rabia Meryem Yilmaz; Zeynep Turan – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
This study aims to reveal the main trends and findings of the studies examining the use of learning analytics in distance education. For this purpose, journal articles indexed in the SSCI index in the Web of Science database were reviewed, and a total of 400 journal articles were analysed within the scope of this study. The systematic review…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Distance Education, Educational Trends, Periodicals
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Buxton, Patricia S. – Journal of Research in Education, 2021
The abundance of student records housed in K-12 schools across the country represents a largely untapped resource in the study of behavioral phenomena among children. Careful review of these existing records affords educational researchers an alternative to the heavily used survey method of data collection. While record review studies are common…
Descriptors: Student Records, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Child Behavior
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Chen, Chen-Tung; Chang, Kai-Yi – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
The phenomenon of low fertility has been negatively impacted on the social structure of the educational environment in Taiwan. To increase the learning effectiveness of students became the most important issue for the Universities in Taiwan. Due to the subjective judgment of evaluators and the attributes of influenced factors are always fuzzy, it…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Anu Vedantham – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
This case study describes the creation process for a mixed methods study from 2009 to 2011, examining for the first time gender differences in how undergraduate students create videos for online platforms such as Facebook and YouTube. I conducted this research for my doctoral dissertation at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Data Collection, Video Technology, Creativity
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Rogiers, Amelie; Merchie, Emmelien; van Keer, Hilde – Frontline Learning Research, 2020
The current study uncovers secondary school students' actual use of text-learning strategies during an individual learning task by means of a concurrent self-reported thinking aloud procedure. Think-aloud data of 51 participants with different learning strategy profiles, distinguished based on a retrospective self-report questionnaire (i.e., 15…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Learning Strategies, Protocol Analysis, Research Methodology
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Ramsden, Bryony – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2016
Research in academic libraries has recently seen an increase in the use of ethnographic-based methods to collect data. Primarily used to learn about library users and their interaction with spaces and resources, the methods are proving particularly useful to academic libraries. The data ethnographic methods retrieve is rich, context specific, and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Academic Libraries, Library Research, Literature Reviews
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Pence, Sacha T.; St. Peter, Claire C. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2018
Descriptive assessments involve recording naturally occurring instances of behavior and corresponding antecedent and consequent events. Authors have argued for the use of two forms of descriptive assessment, structured and narrative Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence recording, because these methods may require little training. However, the extent to…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Data Collection, Accuracy, Research Methodology
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McDaniel, Rudy; Fanfarelli, Joseph R. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This dataset contains participant data related to the use of badging (achievement) feedback in pedagogical design. Two sections each of web-based graphic design and web design undergraduate courses were offered at the University of Central Florida. A badging system for achievements was included in one section of each. Performance, engagement and…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Evaluation Methods, Information Storage, Feedback (Response)
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Antonenko, Pavlo D.; Toy, Serkan; Niederhauser, Dale S. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
Cluster analysis is a group of statistical methods that has great potential for analyzing the vast amounts of web server-log data to understand student learning from hyperlinked information resources. In this methodological paper we provide an introduction to cluster analysis for educational technology researchers and illustrate its use through…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Multivariate Analysis, Educational Technology, Profiles
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David Ferguson, Tyler; Briesch, Amy M.; Volpe, Robert J.; Daniels, Brian – School Psychology Quarterly, 2012
Although direct observation is one of the most frequently used assessment methods by school psychologists, studies have shown that the number of observations needed to obtain a dependable estimate of student behavior may be impractical. Because direct observation may be used to inform important decisions about students, it is crucial that data be…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Observation, Time Perspective, Decision Making
Gonder, Jennifer, Ed.; Howell-Carter, Marya, Ed.; Anderson, Jessica, Ed. – Online Submission, 2013
Included herein is the conference proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, sponsored by the Psychology Department of the State University of New York at Farmingdale. The conference theme for 2013 was: The Science of Learning. The Conference featured a keynote address by Victor Benassi, Ph.D.…
Descriptors: Psychology, College Instruction, Conferences (Gatherings), Undergraduate Students
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Lerman, Dorothea C.; Hovanetz, Alyson; Strobel, Margaret; Tetreault, Allison – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2009
Recording the antecedents and consequences of problem behavior for the purposes of conducting descriptive analyses (called "A-B-C recording") can be particularly challenging, given the multiple variables that are commonly present in the natural environment. Nonetheless, psychologists and behavioral consultants often must rely on parents and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Public School Teachers, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Data Collection
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Harrop, Alex; Swinson, Jeremy – Educational Studies, 2007
This paper takes as its starting point an examination of the current status of some of the concerns that were raised in the mid-1980s about methodological problems faced by educational researchers using the behavioural approach in schools. These concerns included the measurement of agreement between observers, the interpretation of raw data…
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, Research Methodology, Behavioral Science Research, Data Collection
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