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Duncan Culbreth; Rebekah Davis; Cigdem Meral; Florence Martin; Weichao Wang; Sejal Foxx – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
Monitoring applications (MAs) use digital and online tools to collect and track data on student behavior, and they have become increasingly popular among schools. Empirical research on these complex surveillance platforms is scant, and little is known about the efficacy or impact that they have on students. This study used a multi-method…
Descriptors: High School Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, Progress Monitoring
Brion-Meisels, Gretchen; O'Neil, Eliza; Bishop, Sarah – Equity Assistance Center Region II, Intercultural Development Research Association, 2022
Before developing a school- and community-wide work plan around preventing bullying and harassment, school administrators should employ data collection tools to determine their specific areas of focus. Successful bullying prevention efforts must be driven by local data and rooted in research on effective practices. These policies must undergo…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Antisocial Behavior, Educational Practices
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Marshik, Tesia; Driscoll, Adam; Remsburg, Alysa; Yu, Alder; Dutta, Nabamita; Klein, Jennifer – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are a ubiquitous feature of higher education. However, scholars have presented numerous challenges to the accuracy, validity, reliability and objectivity of SETs as a measure of teaching effectiveness. Given the potential for bias, the use of SETs in professional review may constitute a form of institutional…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Evaluation Methods, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Paul Joseph-Richard; James Uhomoibhi – INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2024
Scholarly interests in developing personalized learning analytics dashboards (LADs) in universities have been increasing. LADs are data visualization tools for both teachers and learners that allow them to support student success and improve teaching and learning. In most LADs, however, a teacher-centric, institutional view drives their designs,…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Learning Management Systems, Independent Study, Undergraduate Students
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Jennifer Xu; Monica Garfield – Information Systems Education Journal, 2024
There has been an increasing demand for healthcare analytics skills and competence by healthcare organizations. Although many universities have established programs and courses on healthcare analytics, most of these curricula have been designed for information systems (IS), information technology (IT), or analytics students. It is unclear how…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Data Analysis
Agarwal, Nikhil; Somaini, Paulo J. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
Preferences for schools are important determinants of equitable access to high-quality education, effects of expanded choice on school improvement and school choice mechanism design. Standard methods for estimating consumer preferences are not applicable in education markets because students do not always get their first choice school. This review…
Descriptors: School Choice, Models, Educational Quality, Data Analysis
Shute, Valerie; Rahimi, Seyedahmad; Smith, Ginny – Grantee Submission, 2019
Well-designed digital games hold promise as effective learning environments. However, designing games that support both learning and engagement without disrupting flow is quite tricky. In addition to including various game design features (e.g., interactive problem solving, adaptive challenges, and player control of gameplay) to engage players,…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Educational Games, Educational Technology
Tezel, Kadir Vefa – Online Submission, 2021
Assessing the quality of education is a vital stipulation for all graduate programs that aim to secure and bolster their current rank among similar programs. Program evaluation is usually carried out by parties not directly related to a program. In other words, outsiders evaluate programs. Insiders who have first-hand experiences and impressions…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Educational Quality, College Faculty, Graduate Students
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Stander, Julian; Dalla Valle, Luciana – Journal of Statistics Education, 2017
We discuss the learning goals, content, and delivery of a University of Plymouth intensive module delivered over four weeks entitled MATH1608PP Understanding Big Data from Social Networks, aimed at introducing students to a broad range of techniques used in modern Data Science. This module made use of R, accessed through RStudio, and some popular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Mathematics, Statistics
Cara Cahalan Laitusis; Elena L. Grigorenko; Patricia H. A. Perez – American Psychological Association, 2023
Psychological science has much to contribute to enhancing teaching and learning in the classroom. Teaching and learning are intricately linked to social and behavioral factors of human development, including cognition, motivation, social interaction, and communication. Psychological science can also provide key insights on effective instruction,…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Special Education
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Njiru, Samson Murithi; Karuku, Simon; Nyaga, Milcah – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
In recent decades, school performance ranking (or 'league table') have become a common feature of many education systems in the world. The ranking is usually published by government and news agencies in an attempt to measure and compare the relative performance of individual schools against a number of criteria, including academic performance.…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Competition, Tables (Data)
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Pereira, Diana; Niklasson, Laila; Flores, Maria Assunção – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This paper aims at investigating students' perceptions about assessment, especially the ways in which it is put into practice. Data were collected through questionnaires in different programmes in Portugal and Sweden. In total, 173 students from Portugal and 72 from Sweden participated in the study. Findings showed that students had similar ideas…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation
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Barrance, Rhian; Elwood, Jannette – Oxford Review of Education, 2018
This paper presents data that consider ways in which young people experience the curriculum through the lens of subject examination syllabuses (for GCSEs), their associated assessment techniques and structures, and educational policies at national and school level concerning subject choice. Drawing upon an original qualitative dataset from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Attitudes, Exit Examinations
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Scheef, Andrew R.; Johnson, Cinda – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2017
The inclusion of age-appropriate transition assessments is a key component of transition services for students with disabilities. Although these assessments may focus on a variety of areas, their general purpose is to provide guidance in developing individualized postschool goals and design transition services to help students achieve these goals.…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Disabilities, Student Adjustment
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Boedigheimer, Ralph; Ghrist, Michelle; Peterson, Dale; Kallemyn, Benjamin – PRIMUS, 2015
Over the last 10 years faculty members in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Air Force Academy have incorporated individual oral exams into mathematics courses. We have experimented with various approaches, shared results and ideas with other department members, and refined our techniques. We have found that this…
Descriptors: Military Schools, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Tests, Evaluation Methods
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