Recently added articles from Educational Research Quarterly:
Brief History of the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research (AAER)
Dec 01, 2008; ... The papers presented in this issue of the Educational Research Quarterly represent a sampling of the content presented at programs of the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research (AAER). This Association was founded in Spring 1996 at a meeting of the Eastern Educational Research ...
Development of a Measure of Mood State for Children: The MINIMOOD
Dec 01, 2008; ... The purposes of the present study were to develop and validate a mood scale measure for elementary grade school children. Graduate students generated a sampling of mood state items, 30 to use in a pilot study and 60 to use in a study to develop and validate this scale. Ratings were obtained on ...
Program Exit Examinations in Nursing Education: Using a Value Added Assessment as a Measure of the Impact of a New Curriculum
Dec 01, 2008; ... To become a registered nurse in the United States, one must pass the National Council License Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). To address the growing national nursing shortage, nurse preparation programs must better prepare students to pass this national licensure examination. The ...
Predictors of Successful Nursing Education Outcomes: A Study of the North Carolina Central University's Nursing Program
Dec 01, 2008; ... The primary purpose of this study was to specify the variables that would play the greatest role in predicting success of North Carolina Central University (NCCU) nursing graduates in the National Certification Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Participants for this ...
College Math Assessment: SAT scores vs. College Math Placement Scores
Dec 01, 2008; ... Many colleges and university's use SAT math scores or math placement tests to place students in the appropriate math course. This study compares the use of math placement scores and SAT scores for 188 freshman students. The student's grades and faculty observations were analysed to determine if ...
Piers Harris and Coopersmith Measure of Self-Esteem: A Comparative Analysis
Dec 01, 2008; ... The purposes of this study were to see if the items from the Piers Harris Self Concept Scale and the Coopersmith Self Esteem Inventory had construct and predictive validity. Items used in this study were 50 items from the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory and 80 items from the Piers Harris ...
Student Attitudes Towards Group Work Among Undergraduates in Business Administration, Education and Mathematics
Sep 01, 2008; ... Group work is a widely used teaching technique in higher education. Faculty find themselves utilising this method in their classes more and more, yet few studies examine what students actually think about group work. The current study surveyed Mathematics, Education, and Business Administration ...
Enhancing Excellence and Equity in Schooling: Modality Theory, an International Perspective
Sep 01, 2008; ... This international research examines the learning style preferences of Taiwanese students by gender and age in an attempt to determine which of the five learning style stimuli (environmental, emotional, sociological, physiological and psychological) are more likely to be a factor in student ...
How Geographic Location Plays a Role within Instruction: Venturing into both Rural and Urban Elementary Schools
Sep 01, 2008; ... Students within various geographic locations have specific knowledge, previous experiences, and ways of life. Each of these plays a critical role in how students learn and therefore, how teachers guide their instruction to meet their students' educational needs. So why are research findings ...
Texas TAAS Scores Revisited
Jun 01, 2008; ... Data based on all eligible Texas public school students reveals that scores from the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) reading and mathematics tests are more valid than Klein, Hamilton, McCaffrey, and Stecher (2000) implied. New analyses based on both individual student and school-level ...
Community-based Association: A Potent Instrument for Promoting Accountability in Local Government Administration in Nigeria
Jun 01, 2008; ... This article attempts to justify the potency of Community Based Associations as instrument for the promotion of accountability in Local Government Administration in Nigeria. The paper gave some definitions of local government, and articulated some problems of local government administration in ...
Publication Productivity in Research in Higher Education and The Journal of Higher Education, 1995-2005
Jun 01, 2008; ... Journal publication productivity has for several decades been a commonly used index of program quality within numerous fields. Following this ample precedent, articles in each issue of two of the premiere journals within the academic discipline of higher education were examined for the 11-year ...
Admission Policies and the Quality of University Education in Nigeria
Mar 01, 2008; ... The population of Nigeria is 140 million according to the last 2006 census. Only 75 Universities are available to cater to this population with one University for 1,866,000 people. The inability of the available Universities in Nigeria to cope with the high demand for University education has ...
The Effects that Family Members and Peers Have on Students' Decisions to Drop Out of School
Mar 01, 2008; ... In 2003, a study of two Canadian adult literacy programs included 37 learners who revealed a variety of reasons for having dropped out of school as teenagers and younger adults. Chief among these were the influences of parents, siblings, and peers both in and out of school. This article ...
A Comparison of Beginning and Experienced Teachers' Concerns
Mar 01, 2008; ... Over the past thirty years, numerous studies confirmed that new teachers do not have the requisite knowledge to understand the complex interrelationships among management, behavior, and academic tasks. An important missing piece in the literature is how the concerns of experienced teachers ...
Concerns about Teaching Process: Student Teachers' Perspective
Mar 01, 2008; ... The aim of this study is to determine the student teachers' concerns about the teaching process including the teaching profession, teaching methods, planning, instruction, evaluation and classroom management. A total of 156 student teachers from five departments in the Gazi faculty of education ...
The Relationship Between Organizational Health and Bullying That Teachers Experience in Primary Schools in Turkey
Dec 01, 2007; ... The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between organizational health and the bullying that teachers experience in primary schools in Turkey. Two measurement instruments were used in this research. The Organizational Health Inventory (OHI-S), Hoy and Miskel, (1991) was used to ...
Driven and No Regrets: A Qualitative Analysis of Students Earning Baccalaureate Degrees in Three Years
Dec 01, 2007; ... Using rigorous qualitative research methodology, twenty-four college students receiving their undergraduate degrees in three years were interviewed. Following analysis of the semi-structured interview transcripts and coding, themes emerged, indicating that these students possessed ...
Predictive Validity of Grade Point Averages and of the Miller Analogies Test for Admission to a Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership
Dec 01, 2007; ... * This research was supported in part by the University of California Educational Research Center (UCERC). The opinions contained in tins work, however, are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the endorsement of the UCERC. A very important administrative task for most ...
Smoking Intensity Among Nigerian Secondary Schools Adolescent Smokers
Dec 01, 2007; ... This study examined smoking intensity among secondary school adolescent smokers. A total of 800 students, made up of 685 males and 115 females who have at least tasted a cigarette once, from twenty secondary schools (5 private and 15 public secondary schools) in Benin City, Nigeria participated ...