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Wang, He; Frame, Jeff; Ozimek, Elicia; Leib, Daniel; Dugan, Eric L. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2013
Military personnel are commonly afflicted by lower-extremity overuse injuries. Load carriage and muscular fatigue are major stressors during military basic training. Purpose: To examine effects of load carriage and muscular fatigue on lower-extremity joint mechanics during walking. Method: Eighteen men performed the following tasks: unloaded…
Descriptors: Males, College Students, Physical Activities, Correlation
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Addison, Asonaba Kofi; Yankyera, George – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate into how female teachers in Asamankese Circuit II in West Akim Municipality of Ghana Education Service manage stress and teacher burnout, and explore the causes, effects, and ways of improving work-related stress for better standard of education. The study was conducted with qualitative research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Females
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Frostad, Per; Pijl, Sip Jan; Mjaavatn, Per Egil – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Early school leaving in upper secondary education is a serious problem for both students and society. Several reviews have shown that there is no simple cause of early school leaving, but it seems to relate to demographic variables, social factors, academic achievement, and school factors. In this study, data from 2,045 students aged 16 from upper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dropouts, Secondary School Students, Regression (Statistics)
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Abu-Tineh, Abdullah M. – European Journal of Training and Development, 2015
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the school-based support program (SBSP) as perceived by teachers who participated in this program. SBSP was designed to collectively build the capacity and promote the overall quality of teaching and learning in identified independent schools in the State of Qatar.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Capacity Building, Teacher Attitudes
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Zayim, Merve; Kondakci, Yasar – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
Readiness for change is one of the constructs that fosters positive behaviours, attitudes and thinking towards new adjustments on the part of employees. As one of the internal context variables, trust acts as a catalyst for supportive behaviours in times of change and uncertainty by reducing change related resistance and stress. Based on this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Nancy K. Scammacca; Anna-Mária Fall; Greg Roberts – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Effect sizes are commonly reported for the results of educational interventions. However, researchers struggle with interpreting their magnitude in a way that transcends generic guidelines. Effect sizes can be interpreted in a meaningful context by benchmarking them against typical growth for students in the normative distribution. Such benchmarks…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Achievement Gains, Statistical Distributions, Low Achievement
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LoPresto, Michael C. – Physics Education, 2014
What follows is a description of a theoretical model designed to calculate the playing frequencies of the musical pitches produced by a trombone. The model is based on quantitative treatments that demonstrate the effects of the flaring bell and cup-shaped mouthpiece sections on these frequencies and can be used to calculate frequencies that…
Descriptors: Musical Instruments, Musical Composition, Program Descriptions, Models
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Lee, Hollylynne S.; Kersaint, Gladis; Harper, Suzanne R.; Driskell, Shannon O.; Jones, Dusty L.; Leatham, Keith R.; Angotti, Robin L.; Adu-Gyamfi, Kwaku – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
This study examined a random stratified sample (n = 62) of teachers' work across eight institutions on three tasks that utilized dynamic statistical software. We considered how teachers may utilize and develop their statistical knowledge and technological statistical knowledge when investigating a statistical task. We examined how teachers engaged…
Descriptors: Statistics, Knowledge Level, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Computer Software
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Seechaliao, Thapanee – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
This paper describes lecturers' behaviors and beliefs regarding social media in higher education at the Faculty of Education, Mahasarakham University. Thirty-one lecturers were surveyed about their attitudes toward the use of social media in their classes. Their responses were analyzed using arithmetic mean and standard deviation. The results are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Networks, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Behavior
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Bianchini, Stefano – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2014
This study investigates the feedback effects of teaching quality assessment. Previous literature looked separately at the evolution of individual and aggregate scores to understand whether instructors and university performance depends on its past evaluation. I propose a new quantitative-based methodology, combining statistical distributions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Teacher Effectiveness, College Faculty
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Kiliç, Çigdem – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
The purpose of this study is to determine the perception level of pre-school pre-service teachers concerning lifelong learning and to verify if there is a meaningful relationship between lifelong learning perception and gender/grade levels of students. The study group of the research designed by scanning model is made up of Abant Izzet Baysal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preschool Education, Lifelong Learning
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Welch, Anita G.; Cakir, Mustafa; Peterson, Claudette M.; Ray, Christopher M. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of gender between actual and preferred classroom environment and use of technology in the science classroom of Turkish students. Employing stratified random sampling procedures, data were collected from 985 students from schools across twelve different districts in Istanbul, Turkey. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Science Education, Educational Environment
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Brown, Philip H.; Van Niel, Nicholas – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2012
Grades at US colleges and universities have increased precipitously over the last 50 years, suggesting that their signalling power has become attenuated. Moreover, average grades have risen disproportionately in some departments, implying that weak students in departments with high grades may obtain better class ranks than strong students in…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Grades (Scholastic), College Students, Educational Trends
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Cardon, Teresa A.; Guimond, Amy; Smith-Treadwell, Amanda M. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2015
Video modeling (VM) has shown promise as an effective intervention for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, little is known about what may promote or prevent caregivers' use of this intervention. While VM is an effective tool to support skill development among a wide range of children in research and clinical settings, VM is…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Video Technology, Modeling (Psychology)
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Khateeb, Linda Ahmad – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study aims to investigate the status of corporal punishment in Jordanian Primary schools from the perspectives of: Teachers, students, and parents. The corpus of the study comprises (95) Male and female teachers, (135) male and female students form Jordanian primary schools. Two questionnaire forms were used in this study: one for teachers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Punishment, School Desegregation, Elementary School Students
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