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Twenty-Six Years of Changes in Education Students’ Attitudes
(Center for Promoting Ideas, USA, 2015-12)
The main purpose of this quantitative study was to compare graduate education students from 1988 with graduate
and undergraduate education students from 2014 in regard to their attitudes and expectations about teaching,
schools, ...
An Exploration of the Connections Between Institution Type and Perceived Levels of Stereotype Threat in African American Engineering Students
(Journal of African American Males in Education (JAAME), 2015)
To distinguish the similarities and differences in coping strategies of African American engineering
students, a quantitative study was conducted which examined their perceptions of stereotype threat at
three academic ...
Towards Understanding When Service-Learning Fosters Efficacy Beliefs of Preservice Teachers
(Duke University and the SIG-Service-Learning & Experiential Education of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2015)
This research uses a mixed methods approach in focusing upon the role service-learning can play in enhancing preservice teachers’ sense of efficacy. Results of the quantitative component reveal significant gains in efficacy ...
A characterization of the Burr Type III and Type XII distributions through the method of percentiles and the Spearman correlation
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
A characterization of Burr Type III and Type XII distributions based on
the method of percentiles (MOP) is introduced and contrasted with the
method of (conventional) moments (MOM) in the context of estimation
and fitting ...