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Larson-Hall, Jenifer; Plonsky, Luke – Language Learning, 2015
This paper presents a set of guidelines for reporting on five types of quantitative data issues: (1) Descriptive statistics, (2) Effect sizes and confidence intervals, (3) Instrument reliability, (4) Visual displays of data, and (5) Raw data. Our recommendations are derived mainly from various professional sources related to L2 research but…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Statistical Analysis, Language Research, Second Language Learning
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Osakwe, Regina N. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
This study examined entrepreneurship education in Delta Sate tertiary institutions as a means of national growth and development. Two research questions were asked to guide the study. The population comprised all the 1,898 academic staff in eight tertiary institutions in the state. A sample of 800 lecturers was drawn through the multi stage and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Postsecondary Education, Questionnaires
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Hadromi; Rachman, Maman; Soesanto; Kartana, Tri Jaka – International Education Studies, 2015
The purpose of this research is to develop automotive Mechanical Technology Skill Program (TMO) in Vocational School. The Research and Development (R&D) object was done in SMK 1, 4 and 7 Semarang, Indonesia. The result was achieved productivity Practical Management Final Model at TMO skill Program in Vocational school named momanticproter.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Vocational Schools, Auto Mechanics
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Han, Der-Yan; Chen, Sue-Huei – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
The Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale has been applied widely. However, there is no complete report on the reliability and validity of its Chinese version (ATSPPHS-C). A total of 353 Taiwanese undergraduates completed the ATSPPHS-C, Help-Seeking Willingness Scale, Symptom Check List-90R, and Marlowe-Crowne Social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Help Seeking, Rating Scales, Psychometrics
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Zhou, Shaona; Zhang, Chunbin; Xiao, Hua – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
In the past three decades, previous researches showed that students had various misconceptions of Newton's Third Law. The present study focused on students' difficulties in identifying the third-law force pair in gravity interaction situations. An instrument involving contexts with gravity and non-gravity associated interactions was designed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Secondary School Students, Physics
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Kärnä, Sami; Julin, Päivi – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate and discuss the extent of the satisfaction as perceived by the students and staff towards university facilities and services in two campuses in Finland. The aim is to analyse which facility-related factors have the greatest impacts on students' and staff's overall satisfaction.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Facilities, Satisfaction, College Students
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Yusoff, Mazirah; McLeay, Fraser; Woodruffe-Burton, Helen – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2015
Purpose: This study aims to identify the dimensions of business student satisfaction in the Malaysian private higher educational environment and evaluate the influence that demographic factors have on satisfaction. Design/Methodology/Approach: A questionnaire was developed and distributed to 1,200 undergraduate business students at four private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Satisfaction
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Ye, Lichuan; Hutton Johnson, Stacy; Keane, Kathleen; Manasia, Michael; Gregas, Matt – Journal of American College Health, 2015
Objective: To examine the habit of napping and its relationship with nighttime sleep in college students. Participants: Four hundred and forty undergraduate students who responded to an anonymous online survey in April 2010. Methods: Three questions were asked to determine the frequency, length, and timing of napping during the past month. Sleep…
Descriptors: Sleep, Correlation, Undergraduate Students, Measures (Individuals)
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Liau, Albert K.; Kiat, John E.; Nie, Youyan – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which the pedagogical approaches used in the course were related to improvements in students' attitudes toward statistics in a Quantitative Methods course for psychology undergraduate students in a Malaysian University. The study examined whether increasing availability of the instructor and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Statistics, Statistical Analysis, Psychology
Rafaqi, Mohd. Zia-Ul-Haq – Online Submission, 2015
In the present scenario academic achievement poses a big challenge to the educationist and psychologists everywhere. It is especially of great concern in India where population explosion, multi-cultural societies and an extraordinary rush for education has led to marvelous quantitative growth of education at all the stages without consistent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Rural Areas, Comparative Analysis
Sullivan, Peter M. – Online Submission, 2015
Previous research has established that attracting and retaining members is a significant challenge associated with the formation and maintenance of interest groups. Research has also established that interest groups play a significant role in the formation of educational policy. This study will attempt to provide insight as to those factors that…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, Principals, Group Membership, Incentives
Sombito, Lester Jamili – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Understanding of the persistence of student-athletes in athletics at the D-III level is complex. This research study investigated the issue of student-athlete retention by focusing on Division III (D-III) student-athlete persistence in athletics by asking the following research question, "To what extent do freshman student-athletes persist in…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Athletics, Athletes, Statistical Analysis
Kornhauser, Zachary G. C.; James, Jessalynn K. – Council for Aid to Education, 2015
Low-stakes assessments are commonly used in educational institutions as measures of student learning, but suffer from some threats to validity. Low-student motivation is one issue facing the validity of these assessments, as research has found student motivation to impact performance on low-stakes exams. The current study aimed to determine (a) if…
Descriptors: Correlation, High School Freshmen, College Freshmen, Tests
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Bear, George G.; Yang, Chunyan; Chen, Dandan; He, Xianyou; Xie, Jia-Shu; Huang, Xishan – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine differences between American and Chinese students in their perceptions of school climate and engagement in school, and in the relation between school climate and engagement. Method: Confirmatory factor analyses were used to support the factor structure and measurement invariance of the two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Environment, Learner Engagement
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Lee, Soon C.; Irving, Karen E. – International Journal of STEM Education, 2018
Background: In a science classroom, students do not simply learn scientific ways of doing, knowing, and reasoning unless they find ways of appropriating scientific discourse. In the Next Generation Science Standards, major forms of "scientific discourse" are emphasized as a main part of the Science and Engineering Practices. To enhance…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students, Learner Engagement
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