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Anirudhan Badrinath; Zachary Pardos – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2025
Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT) is a well-established model for formative assessment, with optimization typically using expectation maximization, conjugate gradient descent, or brute force search. However, one of the flaws of existing optimization techniques for BKT models is convergence to undesirable local minima that negatively impact…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Problem Solving, Audience Response Systems
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Thao-Trang Huynh-Cam; Long-Sheng Chen; Tzu-Chuen Lu – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: This study aimed to use enrollment information including demographic, family background and financial status, which can be gathered before the first semester starts, to construct early prediction models (EPMs) and extract crucial factors associated with first-year student dropout probability. Design/methodology/approach: The real-world…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, At Risk Students, Dropout Characteristics
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Patrick Kennedy; Brian Gearin; Katherine Bromley; Gina Biancarosa – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Dyslexia is a specific reading disability characterized by word recognition difficulties that can qualify a student for special education services under the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" (IDEA; 2004; Yudin, 2015). As of 2024, 49 US states have legislation defining dyslexia and enumerating for schools…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Dyslexia, Test Reliability, Test Validity
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Longobardi, Claudio; Pasta, Tiziana; Marengo, Davide; Prino, Laura Elvira; Settanni, Michele – Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
Through two studies, this work examined the applicability, interpretability, and construct validity of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System K-3 (CLASS) to measure quality of classroom interactions. In the first study, the CLASS was used in 332 classrooms to test three alternative models (in time order, the one-, three-factor, and two-factor…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
Matthew J. Salganik; Ian Lundberg; Alexander T. Kindel; Caitlin E. Ahearn; Khaled Al-Ghoneim; Abdullah Almaatouq; Drew M. Altschul; Jennie E. Brand; Nicole Bohme Carnegie; Ryan James Compton; Debanjan Datta; Thomas Davidson; Anna Filippova; Connor Gilroy; Brian J. Goode; Eaman Jahani; Ridhi Kashyap; Antje Kirchner; Stephen McKay; Allison C. Morgan; Alex Pentland; Kivan Polimis; Louis Raes; Daniel E. Rigobon; Claudia V. Roberts; Diana M. Stanescu; Yoshihiko Suhara; Adaner Usmani; Erik H. Wang; Muna Adem; Abdulla Alhajri; Bedoor AlShebli; Redwane Amin; Ryan B. Amos; Lisa P. Argyle; Livia Baer-Bositis; Moritz Büchi; Bo-Ryehn Chung; William Eggert; Gregory Faletto; Zhilin Fan; Jeremy Freese; Tejomay Gadgil; Josh Gagné; Yue Gao; Andrew Halpern-Manners; Sonia P. Hashim; Sonia Hausen; Guanhua He; Kimberly Higuera; Bernie Hogan; Ilana M. Horwitz; Lisa M. Hummel; Naman Jain; Kun Jin; David Jurgens; Patrick Kaminski; Areg Karapetyan; E. H. Kim; Ben Leizman; Naijia Liu; Malte Möser; Andrew E. Mack; Mayank Mahajan; Noah Mandell; Helge Marahrens; Diana Mercado-Garcia; Viola Mocz; Katariina Mueller-Gastell; Ahmed Musse; Qiankun Niu; William Nowak; Hamidreza Omidvar; Andrew Or; Karen Ouyang; Katy M. Pinto; Ethan Porter; Kristin E. Porter; Crystal Qian; Tamkinat Rauf; Anahit Sargsyan; Thomas Schaffner; Landon Schnabel; Bryan Schonfeld; Ben Sender; Jonathan D. Tang; Emma Tsurkov; Austin van Loon; Onur Varol; Xiafei Wang; Zhi Wang; Julia Wang; Flora Wang; Samantha Weissman; Kirstie Whitaker; Maria K. Wolters; Wei Lee Woon; James Wu; Catherine Wu; Kengran Yang; Jingwen Yin; Bingyu Zhao; Chenyun Zhu; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Barbara E. Engelhardt; Moritz Hardt; Dean Knox; Karen Levy; Arvind Narayanan; Brandon M. Stewart; Duncan J. Watts; Sara McLanahan – Grantee Submission, 2020
How predictable are life trajectories? We investigated this question with a scientific mass collaboration using the common task method; 160 teams built predictive models for six life outcomes using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a high-quality birth cohort study. Despite using a rich dataset and applying machine-learning…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Family Life, Quality of Life, Disadvantaged
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Abós Catalán, Ángel; Sevil Serrano, Javier; Julián Clemente, José Antonio; Martín-Albo Lucas, José; García-González, Luis – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2018
The present study aimed to validate a Spanish-version of the Basic Psychological Needs at Work Scale (BPNWS-Sp) and to examine the associations between needs satisfaction and engagement and burnout in secondary education teachers. Using a sample of 584 secondary education teachers, the results supported the three-factor model, composite…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Behavior Rating Scales
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Matthews, Michael S.; Farmer, Jennie – Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 2017
Dynamic assessment methods, initially developed by Feuerstein in the 1970s, have been recommended as being more equitable for identifying the academic abilities of students who may not perform well on traditional assessments due to these learners' cultural, linguistic, or economic differences from the population for whom the traditional measures…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Predictive Measurement, Hispanic American Students
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Gagnon, Ryan J.; Stone, Garrett A.; Garst, Barry A. – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2017
Critically examining common statistical approaches and their strengths and weaknesses is an important step in advancing recreation and leisure sciences. To continue this critical examination and to inform methodological decision making, this study compared three approaches to determine how alternative approaches may result in contradictory…
Descriptors: Recreation, Recreational Programs, Educational Research, Research Methodology
Skinner, Rebecca R.; Lomax, Erin – Congressional Research Service, 2017
Federal education legislation continues to emphasize the role of assessment in elementary and secondary schools. Perhaps most prominently, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA; P.L. 114-95), requires the use of test-based educational accountability systems in states and specifies the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation