Statistical education is a very important area of research because it builds knowledge and promotes innovation in the courses of this discipline. Based on the advances in this area, changes in the content and approaches of the courses at all educational levels have been promoted in several countries. In this study, we examine programs of…

Learning technologies are now commonplace in education, and generate large volumes of educational data. Scholars have argued that analytics can and should be employed to optimize learning and learning environments. This article explores what is really meant by "analytics", describes the current best-known examples of institutional…

Field courses are essential for subjects like Earth Sciences, Geography and Ecology. In these topics, GIS is used to manage and analyse spatial data, and offers quantitative methods that are beneficial for fieldwork. This paper presents changes made to a first-year Earth Sciences field course in the French Alps, where new GIS methods were…

This study was undertaken to investigate the relationships between some characteristics of elementary schools in the province of Saskatchewan and the degree of adoption of educational innovations by these schools. (Author)

The author has developed a model for transferring and implementing educational innovations from one institution to another. The model consists of an organized set of variables whose precedence relationships were determined by statistical analysis of collected data. A questionnaire was sent to a sample of prospective consumers of educational…

This book, in its second edition, is intended as a practical guide to conducting action research in schools--it outlines the process of designing and reporting an action research project. Contending that action research can be used as a powerful tool that can contribute to school renewal and instructional improvement, the book defines and presents…

The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the workshops, collect data to further enhance the programs, and determine the job satisfaction of the participants. The study involved 154 participants in nine 1970 Industrial Arts Curriculum Project (IACP) summer workshops for construction teachers. An achievement test, the Minnesota…

The National Diffusion Network provides a model for the adoption of outstanding educational programs. This second volume of the Final Report on the Evaluation of the National Diffusion Network consists of a series of technical supplements to Volume I, which contains the findings and recommendations. These technical supplements provide details of…