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Matchett, Andrew – PRIMUS, 2023
This article describes five elementary statistics projects involving the COVID-19 data made available to the public in csv files by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The first project examined data available at the beginning of the COVID surge in New York City in spring, 2020, and used the correlation coefficient to estimate the…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Student Projects, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Ryan Schwarz; H. Cigdem Bulut; Charles Anifowose – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023
The increasing volume of large-scale assessment data poses a challenge for testing organizations to manage data and conduct psychometric analysis efficiently. Traditional psychometric software presents barriers, such as a lack of functionality for managing data and conducting various standard psychometric analyses efficiently. These challenges…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, International Assessment, Psychometrics, Statistical Analysis
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Zhao Wang – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
This paper proposes an online learning platform learner DM method based on the improved fuzzy C clustering (FCM) algorithm, constructs a learner feature database, and combines clustering analysis and SPSS statistical methods to statistically summarize the big data of law, thus improving the deficiencies of static and absolute classification of…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Legal Education (Professions), Law Schools, Foreign Countries
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Singer, Judith D. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2019
The arc of quantitative educational research should not be etched in stone but should adapt and change over time. In this article, I argue that it is time for a reshaping by offering my personal view of the past, present and future of our field. Educational research--and research in the social and life sciences--is at a crossroads. There are many…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Longitudinal Studies, Evaluation
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Dawadi, Saraswati; Shrestha, Sagun; Giri, Ram A. – Journal of Practical Studies in Education, 2021
The article positions mixed-method research (MMR) as a principled complementary research method to the traditional quantitative and qualitative research approaches. By situating MMR in an analysis of some of the common research paradigms, the article presents it as a natural choice in order to complement and cater to the increasingly complex needs…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Statistical Analysis, Qualitative Research, Data Collection
Dawadi, Saraswati; Shrestha, Sagun; Giri, Ram A. – Online Submission, 2021
The article positions mixed-method research (MMR) as a principled complementary research method to the traditional quantitative and qualitative research approaches. By situating MMR in an analysis of some of the common research paradigms, the article presents it as a natural choice in order to complement and cater to the increasingly complex needs…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Statistical Analysis, Qualitative Research, Data Collection
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Buckley, Jeffrey; Adams, Latif; Aribilola, Ifeoluwapo; Arshad, Iram; Azeem, Muhammad; Bracken, Lauryn; Breheny, Colette; Buckley, Ciara; Chimello, Ismael; Fagan, Alison; Fitzpatrick, Daniel P.; Garza Herrera, Diana; Gomes, Guilherme Daniel; Grassick, Shaun; Halligan, Elaine; Hirway, Amit; Hyland, Tomás; Imtiaz, Muhammad Babar; Khan, Muhammad Bilal; Lanzagorta Garcia, Eduardo; Lennon, Paul; Manaf, Eyman; Meng, Jing; Mohd Sufian, Mohd Sufino Zuhaily; Moraes, Adrielle; Osterwald, Katja Magdalena; Platonava, Anastasia; Reid, Clodagh; Renard, Michèle; Rodriguez-Barroso, Laura G.; Simonassi-Paiva, Bianca; Singh, Maulshree; Szank, Tomasz; Tahir, Mehwish; Vijayakumar, Sowmya; Ward, Cormac; Yan, Xinyu; Zainol, Ismin; Zhang, Lin – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
A high level of transparency in reported research is critical for several reasons, such as ensuring an acceptable level of trustworthiness and enabling replication. Transparency in qualitative research permits the identification of specific circumstances which are associated with findings and observations. Thus, transparency is important for the…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Accountability
Daniele Checchi; Alice Bertoletti – European Union, 2024
The European Education Area aims to support Member States' efforts in enhancing the educational attainment of younger generations. In this policy context, there is a need for an objective tool to assess the educational outcomes of EU countries. The present report addresses this need by pursuing two objectives: (1) providing a comprehensive method…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Educational Policy, Educational Assessment
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Gorard, Stephen – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2020
Social science datasets usually have missing cases, and missing values. All such missing data has the potential to bias future research findings. However, many research reports ignore the issue of missing data, only consider some aspects of it, or do not report how it is handled. This paper rehearses the damage caused by missing data. The paper…
Descriptors: Data, Research Problems, Social Science Research, Statistical Analysis
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Kuha, Jouni; Mills, Colin – Sociological Methods & Research, 2020
It is widely believed that regression models for binary responses are problematic if we want to compare estimated coefficients from models for different groups or with different explanatory variables. This concern has two forms. The first arises if the binary model is treated as an estimate of a model for an unobserved continuous response and the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Regression (Statistics), Research Problems, Computation
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Wild, Chris J. – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
"The Times They Are a-Changin'" says the old Bob Dylan song. But it is not just the times that are a-changin'. For statistical literacy, the very earth is moving under our feet (apologies to Carole King). The seismic forces are (i) new forms of communication and discourse and (ii) new forms of data, data display and human interaction…
Descriptors: Statistics, Data, Data Analysis, Influence of Technology
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Changpetch, Pannapa; Reid, Moya – Journal of Education for Business, 2021
Based on a statistical analysis, undergraduate business students are shown to prefer classification tree over six other standard data mining techniques. Data were collected over a 4-year period from students taking a data mining course offered at a business university in the US. The principal reason given by students for this preference is that…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Models, Statistical Analysis, Undergraduate Students
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Loy, Adam; Kuiper, Shonda; Chihara, Laura – Journal of Statistics Education, 2019
This article describes a collaborative project across three institutions to develop, implement, and evaluate a series of tutorials and case studies that highlight fundamental tools of data science--such as visualization, data manipulation, and database usage--that instructors at a wide-range of institutions can incorporate into existing statistics…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Statistics
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Stemmler, Mark; Heine, Jörg-Henrik – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Configural frequency analysis and log-linear modeling are presented as person-centered analytic approaches for the analysis of categorical or categorized data in multi-way contingency tables. Person-centered developmental psychology, based on the holistic interactionistic perspective of the Stockholm working group around David Magnusson and Lars…
Descriptors: Classification, Data, Tables (Data), Models
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Goretzko, David; Heumann, Christian; Bühner, Markus – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2020
Exploratory factor analysis is a statistical method commonly used in psychological research to investigate latent variables and to develop questionnaires. Although such self-report questionnaires are prone to missing values, there is not much literature on this topic with regard to exploratory factor analysis--and especially the process of factor…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Data Analysis, Research Methodology, Psychological Studies
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