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Wollack, James A.; Cohen, Allan S.; Eckerly, Carol A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2015
Test tampering, especially on tests for educational accountability, is an unfortunate reality, necessitating that the state (or its testing vendor) perform data forensic analyses, such as erasure analyses, to look for signs of possible malfeasance. Few statistical approaches exist for detecting fraudulent erasures, and those that do largely do not…
Descriptors: Tests, Cheating, Item Response Theory, Accountability
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Puryear, Jeb S. – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
Recent theoretical work has called for exploration of the moderating effects of cognitive factors on the relationship between creative ideation and creative production. The Cognitive-Creative Sifting model suggests skills in processing and transforming information influence the association. This study used the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale,…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Creative Thinking, Concept Formation, Productive Thinking
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Alkhateeb, Omar – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study aimed that the impact of using model of Marzano gain students the ability to configure an integrated conceptual structure in Islamic concepts the Sample included studious (120) student students the first year where of college of the educational sciences study in, two branches be organized in their choice was complete random among seven…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Islam, Religious Education
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King, Andrew C.; Hidrovo, Carlos H. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2015
Laboratory-based instruction is a powerful educational tool that engages students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines beyond textbook theory. This is true in mechanical engineering education and is often used to provide collegiate-level students a hands-on alternative to course theory. Module-based laboratory…
Descriptors: Engineering, Engineering Education, Mechanics (Physics), Laboratory Experiments
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Wight, Sheila; Miller, Nick – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2015
Background: Speaking louder/more intensely represents a longstanding technique employed to manage voice and intelligibility changes in people with Parkinson's. This technique has been formalized into a treatment approach and marketed as the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT®) programme. Evidence for its efficacy has been published. Studies…
Descriptors: Diseases, Verbal Communication, Clinics, Outcomes of Treatment
Hemba, Jessica K. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between mentoring and incivility among nursing faculty members and the intent to stay in nursing education at the community college level. Mentoring has been shown in the literature as a viable means to increase job satisfaction as well as a means to combat incivility in the workplace.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Mentors, Nursing Education, College Faculty
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Lam, Yuen Yi; Chan, Joanne Chung Yan – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2017
This study compared the effects of social persuasion from parents and teachers on students' self-efficacy in reading comprehension in English as a foreign language. Ninety-nine Grade 8 Chinese students in a secondary school in Hong Kong completed a questionnaire with six scenarios which tapped their self-efficacy after receiving positive and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Al-Smadi, Hend Sam'an Ibrahim – International Education Studies, 2017
The study aimed at recognizing the effect of the social networking sites (henceforth snss) in creating moral crisis and the role of the university in its confrontation from the view point of faculty members at Qassim University. Two tests were constructed; the first included (29 items) developed to identify the role of snss in creating moral…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Mass Media Role, Mass Media Effects, Teacher Attitudes
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Al Tawarah, Haroon M.; Mahasneh, Omar M.; Al-Hawartheh, Nourah A. – International Education Studies, 2017
The present research was conducted to evaluate the effect of using practical presentations on the achievement of the ninth graders students in pre-vocational education subject in Shobak district schools, in comparison to the prevailing method, and identify whether there are differences attributed to the gender variable. To answer the questions,…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Prevocational Education, Gender Differences, Achievement Gains
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Wegmann, Kate M. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Objective: To determine the suitability of the Elementary School Success Profile for Children (ESSP-C) for assessment and comparison of social support and school belonging between Black/African American and White students. Methods: Multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis and invariance testing were conducted to determine the ESSP-C's validity…
Descriptors: African American Students, White Students, Social Support Groups, Factor Analysis
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Mohamed, Ahmed Hassan Hemdan; Kazem, Ali Mahdi; Pfeiffer, Steven; Alzubaidi, Abdul-Qawi; Elwan, Reda Abu; Ambosaidi, Abdullah; Al-Washahi, Mariam; Al-Kharosi, Tarek – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2017
Research suggests that teacher-completed gifted screening scales can reduce undernomination of students with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. The purpose of this study was to examine the use of the Gifted Rating Scales-School Form (GRS-S) in the identification of gifted students in Oman. The participants of the study represented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted, Ability Identification, Talent Identification
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Gülay Ogelman, Hülya; Oguz, Vuslat; Körükçü, Özlem; Köksal Akyol, Aysel – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The purpose of this study is to reveal the effect of perspective-taking skills of six-year-old children on their social competences. Determined by two independent kindergartens at Yenisehir district in Mersin as study groups, 115 children (59 girls, 56 boys) in the age group of 6, constituted the study group of the study. In order to reveal the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Perspective Taking, Interpersonal Competence, Young Children
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Thawabieh, Ahmad M. – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2017
This study aimed to compare between the students' self-assessment and teachers' assessment. The study sample consisted of 71 students at Tafila Technical University studying Introduction to Psychology course. The researcher used 2 students' self-assessment tools and 2 tests. The results indicated that students can assess themselves accurately if…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Evaluation, Psychology
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Hanson, Josef – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2017
Gifford Pinchot III coined the term "intrapreneur" to recognize "dreamers who do": individuals who transform ideas into new endeavors within existing organizations. The purpose of this study was to gauge the salience of intrapreneuring for K-12 music teachers and examine how its attributes and behaviors relate to teachers'…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Music Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Atan, Tülin – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The objective of this study was to compare the empathy levels of university students who do sports and who don't do sports in terms of different variables. For this purpose, 200 Sports Faculty students who do sports at least four days a week for two hours and 200 students from other faculties who don't do sports participated in the study. In the…
Descriptors: College Students, Empathy, Athletics, Athletes
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