For the thirty-sixth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Anaheim, California. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains papers dealing primarily with research and development topics. Papers dealing with the practice of instructional technology...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Discussion Groups, Content Analysis, Games, Multimedia...
D. B. Rubin's model for causal inference in experiments and observational studies is enlarged to analyze the problem of "causes causing causes" and is compared to path analysis and recursive structural equations models. A special quasiexperimental design, the encouragement design, is used to give concreteness to the discussion by focusing on the simplest problem that involves both direct and indirect causation. Encouragement designs involve both randomization and self-selection as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Causal Models, Observation, Path Analysis, Quasiexperimental Design, Selection,...
For the thirtieth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Anaheim, California. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains several dozen research and development papers dealing with instructional technology and instructional design. (Individual papers...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Research and Development, Instructional Design, Educational Technology,...
Perspectives from reading and information fields have identified similar skills belong to two different kind of literacy being online reading abilities and ICT skills. It causes a conflict between two research fields and increase difficult of integrating study results. The purpose of this study was to determine which views are suitable for describing the essence of online reading. A path analysis model was proposed to verify different views. 376 children (4th grade to 6th grade) from three...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Information Technology, Information Literacy, Computer Literacy, Reading Skills,...
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between work engagement and perceived organizational support and organizational climate. The present study, in which quantitative methods have been used, is carried out in the relational screening model. Perceived organizational support scale, organizational climate scale, and work engagement scale, which was adapted into Turkish, were used as measurement instruments. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Organizational Climate, Statistical Analysis, Structural Equation Models, Elementary...
An existing large data set, the Health and Retirement Study 2000 (HRS 2000) was used to explore the relationship between cognition and other factors for individuals aged 65 and older, with a final sample of 1,610 males and 3,549 females. Using structural equation modeling, the entire model was tested to determine if there were differences in how well the model fit data from both men and women. The influences of direct and indirect contributing factors on cognition were also investigated....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cognitive Processes, Older Adults, Sex Differences, Structural Equation Models,...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among students' self-perception, attitudes toward school, study and organizational skills, achievement motivation, attributional style, gender, parental involvement and style, parental income and parental level of education, and students' academic performance or achievement. Using previous research in motivation and gifted achievement a model was developed to represent the relationships among the student and parent variables and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Socioeconomic Status, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted, Grade Point Average,...
The aim of this study is to examine validity and reliability of Community of Inquiry Scale commonly used in online learning by the means of Item Response Theory. For this purpose, Community of Inquiry Scale version 14 is applied on 1,499 students of a distance education center's online learning programs at a Turkish state university via internet. The collected data is analyzed by using a statistical software package. Research data is analyzed in three aspects, which are checking model...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Item Response Theory, Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Measures...
In the present study we investigated a developmentally changing role of text reading fluency in mediating the relations of word reading fluency and listening comprehension to reading comprehension. We addressed this question by using longitudinal data from Grades 1 to 4 and employing structural equation models. Results showed that the role of text reading fluency changes over time as children's reading proficiency develops. In the beginning phase of reading development (Grade 1), text reading...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reading Fluency, Word Recognition, Listening Skills, Reading Comprehension, Listening...
Transition from school to work is a challenging period for young people with learning difficulties. In the dual vocational system of Switzerland, teachers at vocational educational and training (VET)-schools, as well as trainers at VET-companies, provide important support. We were interested in the different pathways from this support to apprentice's career aspirations and further training. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse data from a longitudinal study in four occupational...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Vocational...
This study compared student engagement and achievement levels between students enrolled in a traditional college algebra lecture course and students enrolled in a "flipped" course. Results showed that students in the flipped class had consistently higher levels of achievement throughout the course than did students in the traditional course, despite no differences in demographics. Moreover, students in the flipped course reported greater gains in affective variables related to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, College Mathematics, Algebra, Blended Learning, Mathematics...
This study aimed to find how the brand image and satisfaction of universities influence university students' word-of-mouth behavior, including the sharing of satisfying experiences and recommendations to others. This study conducted a questionnaire survey and distributed 400 questionnaires to students and graduates of universities in Taiwan; 336 valid questionnaires were retrieved. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Models (SEM). According to the findings, brand image significantly...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Marketing, Universities, Student Attitudes, Questionnaires, Asians, Structural...
The present study was conducted to determine the effects of students' perception of both teacher support and students' reaction to questioning on the instrumental help-seeking strategy used by students. The researchers also examined the relationships between these three variables and the motivational components of achievement goal theory. A self-report questionnaire was administered to 1558 undergraduate university students, and structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to explore relations...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Help Seeking, Structural Equation Models, Teacher Response, Self Efficacy, Learning...
Learning outcome is an important indicator for educators in evaluating curriculum design. The focus of this study has been to examine the factors within internship programs, recognizing the complex nature of knowledge application in a practical industry environment. Flow theory was adopted to explain the psychological state of hospitality students during internship and relate it to their learning outcome. A total of 152 responses were collected via self-administrated questionnaires from...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Path Analysis, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries, Hospitality Occupations, Internship...
This paper examines the estimation of two-stage clustered RCT designs in education research using the Neyman causal inference framework that underlies experiments. The key distinction between the considered causal models is whether potential treatment and control group outcomes are considered to be fixed for the study population (the finite-population model) or randomly selected from a vaguely-defined universe (the super-population model). Appropriate estimators are derived and discussed for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Control Groups, Causal Models, Statistical Significance, Computation, Research...
Distance learning has undergone great changes, especially since the advent of the Internet and communication and information technology. Questions have been asked following the growth of this mode of instructional activity. Researchers have investigated methods to assess the benefits of e-learning from a number of perspectives. This survey assesses the associations among the system quality, information quality, and service quality on student satisfaction and use of systems in virtual learning...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in...
This study aims to develop a structural model for organizational citizenship behavior, group cohesiveness and workplace deviance behavior. The study group consists of 639 Turkish teachers working in primary and secondary public schools. In the study, the "Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale" and the "Group Cohesiveness Scale" developed by the researchers and the "Workplace Deviance Scale" developed by Bennett and Robinson (2000) were used. The hypotheses...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Teacher Behavior, Group Unity, Antisocial Behavior, Public School...
Refugees report several mental health challenges associated with pre-, peri-, and post-flight conditions. Some of these challenges include fear, anxiety, hypervigilance, hyperarousal, and nightmares--symptoms that could meet the diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Despite these challenges, some refugees also report psychological growth with nomenclature like post-traumatic growth, resilience, and benefit-finding. This study examined the directional relationship among...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Resilience (Psychology), Positive Attitudes, Religious...
In this study, examining the relationship of parental acceptance/involvement to self-esteem, hope and academic achievement besides, mediating role of hope on the relationship between perception of parental acceptance/involvement, self esteem and academic achievement were aimed. The study was carried out with 297 students from different undergraduate programs of Karadeniz Technical University Fatih Faculty of Education in Trabzon province. To collect the data, Demographic Data Form, Parenting...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Parent Participation, Self Esteem, Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement,...
This paper asserts that causality is an intriguing but controversial topic in philosophy, statistics, and educational and psychological research. By supporting the Causal Markov Condition and the faithfulness condition, Clark Glymour attempted to draw causal inferences from structural equation modeling. According to Glymour, in order to make causal interpretations of no experimental data, the researcher must do some type of manipulation, rather than conditioning, of variables. The Causal Markov...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Causal Models, Markov Processes, Probability, Statistical Inference, Structural...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of financial aid policies on student persistence between the first and second year at a private four-year postsecondary institution in Taiwan. A two-phase sequential research design was employed with priority was given to the quantitative data-structural equation modeling (SEM). While the conceptual framework of this study was drawn from multiple research antecedents in relation to student persistence the major perspective guiding it was...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Student Financial Aid, Academic Persistence, Undergraduate...
Reading comprehension is an important skill for college academic success. Much of the research pertaining to reading in general, and reading comprehension specifically, focuses on the success of primary and secondary school-age students. The present study goes beyond previous research by extending such investigation to the reading comprehension of college-age student participants. Using the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theoretical model, this study investigates the effects of seven broad factors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Reading Comprehension, College Students, Statistical Significance, Models,...
Caring is a behavior of giving holistic assistance to individuals. In fact, this important behavior still has not routinely performed in current nursing practice. Personality and sipirituality are important factors in forming one's caring behavior. Spirituality is a passion or impulse to perform noble action. The objective of this study was to explain the relationships of nurses' spirituality and caring behavior. This study was an observational research with cross sectional design. Study...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Caring, Nurses, Nursing, Religious Factors, Questionnaires, Multivariate Analysis,...
As more students enroll at community colleges, questions are raised about whether learning is the same in the two- and four-year sectors, both overall and for sub-groups, and whether effects of student backgrounds and college experiences on learning are similar. This study used structural equation modeling with CCSSE and NSSE data from a sample of first- and second-year students at 18 institutions and concluded that mean self-reported academic and personal-social gains attributed to college...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Structural Equation Models, Academic Persistence, College Attendance, College...
Understanding reasons why students use social media has become a major preoccupation of researchers in recent time due to the rate of its adoption among the present generation of students. Some of the few study on social media phenomenon employed a single theory as a framework in order to understand the factors that influence the acceptance of it among the students. However, in this study, acceptance to use social network software was researched through a multi-theoretical approach. Factors...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Social Media, Social Networks, Undergraduate Students,...
Few practice-oriented courses are currently integrated into online learning platforms, such as OpenCourseWare, Khan Academy, and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). It is worthwhile to explore how learners respond to information technology and new teaching methods when practice-oriented course are placed online. Therefore, this study probes learner willingness to participate in a practice-oriented course distributed through a MOOC platform, investigating relationships among perceptions,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in...
We explored whether students' perceptions of emotional and instrumental support provided by their mathematics teacher constitute separate dimensions of teacher support and how they are related. We also analyzed how students' perceptions of emotional and instrumental support in math lessons relate to math anxiety, intrinsic motivation, help-seeking behavior, and effort. The participants were 309 Norwegian students in 9th and 10th grade. The data were analyzed by means of structural equation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Teachers,...
The study analyzed the conversational exchanges through which child tutors mediated literacy abilities and knowledge with young children in the framework of the project "From Child to Child: A Tutor-Child Literacy Program," that is being conducted in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The analysis considered the conversational moves deployed by both participants in the dyad, as well as the relationship between the tutor and the tutee. Likewise, it examined longitudinal variations in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Emergent Literacy, Tutors, Literacy...
This paper aimed at examining the learning strategies constructs and to investigate the relationship between learning strategies and motivation in Arabic courses. The study uses a questionnaire as the information-gathering instrument, and the participants comprised students from two public universities in Peninsular Malaysia who are studying Arabic language. A total of 139 students were selected for this study. The questionnaire's construct validity was tested using confirmatory factor...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Student Motivation, Correlation, Structural...
It has been demonstrated that the individual variation in the level and rate of learning for a cohort of students over time can be estimated by hierarchical linear models. Models of this type can also be estimated using widely available structural modeling software, which provides a flexible framework for model explorations, including the use of latent variables purged of the influence of measurement error. A growth model is developed that can also be viewed as a structural model with latent...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cohort Analysis, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education, Error of...
Factors associated with Head Start staff participation in a classroom-based professional development project to promote their use of evidence-based child learning opportunity practices and evidence-based responsive teaching procedures were examined in a study of 36 teachers and teacher assistants in 19 different classrooms. The factors constituting the focus of investigation included work climate, staff belief appraisals (career aspirations, personal motivation, Developmentally Appropriate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Teaching Assistants,...
Among multimedia researches, contribution of cartoons to teaching process and academic achievement has often been examined. However, these technologies may have a slower and less effect since acceptance of them by users is affected by many factors. Therefore, it is extremely important to understand and reveal the factors which encourage teachers who are to choose the most appropriate tool and material for students during teaching period to use cartoons for teaching or restrict their use. To...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cartoons, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Behavior, Intention, Teacher Attitudes,...
The trend of avoiding science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors has persisted resulting in a lack of professionals in STEM fields. Further, the current STEM education system in Korea does not meet domestic demands for STEM labor. To discover an educational approach encouraging students to choose STEM majors at the post-secondary level, the current study employed a survey instrument investigating students' attitudes toward STEM project based learning (PBL), and examined the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, STEM Education, Structural Equation Models, Correlation, Student...
The aim of this research is to investigate interparental conflict, peer and media effects and its direct relationship with the violence behaviour of adolescents and the mediator role of attitudes towards violence. 2120 students, 964 girls and 1156 boys chosen from 7th and 8th grades of one private and eleven public elementary schools in Adana have made up the sampling group of this study. In this research, Attitudes towards Violence Scale, Aggression Questionnaire, Perceived Multidimensional...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conflict, Parent Influence, Marital Instability, Violence, Mass Media Effects, Peer...
Knowledge and learning are important driving forces for business success and competitiveness, especially in the knowledge-intensive organizations (KIO's) whose core business is to create and sell knowledge (e.g. education, R&D units, and consultancy organizations, among others). Previous works suggested one of the Critical Success Factor (CSF) of Knowledge Management (KM) practices is leadership, but only few of them referred it in a quantitative way. This paper aims to explore and explain...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Leadership Role, Knowledge Management, Success, Correlation, Models, Structural...
The purpose of this study is to verify the causal relationship between middle school students' critical reading skills, science literacy skills and attitudes towards science literacy with research data according to the default model. Through the structural equation modeling, path analysis has been applied in the study which was designed in correlational model. The sample of the study consists of 1170 students enrolled in 18 schools determined based on socio-economic status. However, the results...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Middle School Students, Critical Reading, Reading Skills, Scientific Literacy,...
This research investigated the gender differences in job satisfaction, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior in sample included 200 male and 200 female teachers and 80 male managers in boy elementary schools in Zahedan. Data was collected by means of questionnaires and was analyzed through Factorial Analysis of Variance, Pearson Fisher Correlation, Structural Equations Modeling, and Multiple Regression. The results show that the mean of female teachers in variables...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Job Satisfaction, Gender Differences, Elementary School Teachers, Factor Analysis,...
This study empirically investigates the relationships among principals' technology leadership, teaching innovations, and students' academic optimism by surveying elementary school educators across Taiwan. Of the total 1,080 questionnaires distributed, 755 valid surveys were returned for a 69.90% return rate. Teachers were asked to indicate the effectiveness of technology leadership, teaching innovation, and students' academic optimism. The study used structural equation modeling with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Educational Technology, Surveys, Elementary...
The aim of the present research is to reveal the predictor relationships between the values held by married individuals, resilience and conflict resolution styles. The research adopts a relational screening model that is a sub-type of the general screening model. The sample of the research consists of 375 married individuals, of which 173 are females and 202 males, selected through random sampling from married individuals between 2013 and 2014. In the research, the Values Scale was used to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Spouses, Resilience (Psychology), Conflict Resolution, Values, Predictor Variables,...
This study examined the changing role and longitudinal predictive validity of curriculum-embedded progress-monitoring measures (CEMs ) for kindergarten students receiving Tier 2 intervention and identified as at risk of developing reading difficulties. Multiple measures were examined to determine whether they could predict comprehensive latent first- and second-grade reading outcomes and whether their predictive validity changed concurrent with reading development. CEMs of phonemic, alphabetic,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Predictor Variables, Curriculum, Reading Achievement, Kindergarten, At Risk Students,...
The study aimed to investigate the relationship between the instructional leadership of the headmaster and the work discipline of teachers and the work motivation and the academic achievement of primary school students from Special Province of Central Jakarta. The research method will be done with quantitative research methods. The study uses data collection instruments of survey with the Likert scale, data research were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Teacher Motivation, Work...
According to the U.S. Department of Education (2013), approximately 11% of undergraduate students reported having a disability in the 2007-2008 academic year. Of these students, veterans reported having disabilities more than their non-veteran counterparts (5% vs. 3%). This study investigates faculty members' attitudes and behaviors toward student veterans pursuing postsecondary education. Over half a million U.S. troops have returned from the wars in the Middle East and opted to use their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Veterans, Teacher Attitudes, War, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Undergraduate...
The present study investigated the relationships among teaching, cognitive, and social presence through several structural equation models to see which model would better fit the data. To this end, the present study employed and compared several different structural equation models because different models could fit the data equally well. Among the models compared, the results indicated that the model with cognitive presence as a full mediator and the model with social presence as a partial...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Structural Equation Models, Correlation, Teaching (Occupation), Cognitive Processes,...
The purpose of this study is to investigate relationships between students' engagement versus disaffection and their perceptions of teachers' motivational support styles. To do this a hypothesized structural model specifying the direct relationships of students' engagement and their perceptions of teachers' motivational support is used. The model, covers students' motivational regulations, as mediator variables, between students' engagement and their perceptions of teachers' motivational...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, High School Students, Learner Engagement, Secondary School...
It is conceivably important that demographic variables such as gender may have an impact on community of inquiry (CoI) and perceived learning. This study is in response with Garrison et al. (2010) who suggest that there is a need to determine moderation effects of gender on the relationship between CoI elements and perceived learning. A total of 348 undergraduate students were drawn from blended programs in three public universities in Malaysia to be the sample of the study. As research...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Blended Learning, Gender Differences, Communities of Practice, Inquiry, Learning,...
This small-scale, longitudinal study tested for the influence of video recording with a camcorder, and recording and self-viewing with an iPad. The study tested for changes in confidence, anxiety and foreign language (FL) willingness to communicate (WTC; McCroskey & Baer, 1985) using self-report measures before and after the intervention (N = 91 & 71, respectively). For the second administration, a second instrument was administered which asked about the influence of the camcorder/iPad...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Longitudinal Studies, Video Technology, Handheld Devices, Technology Uses in...
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has conducted a series of educational assessments in many OECD and non-OECD countries to support their sustainable economic growth since 2000. These assessments are named Program for International Student Achievement (PISA); they focus on the capabilities of 15-year olds in three main subjects: mathematics, science, and reading. PISA also measures students' interests and tendencies toward information and communication Technologies....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Gender Differences, Structural Equation Models,...
Though common structural equation modeling (SEM) methods are predicated upon the assumption of multivariate normality, applied researchers often find themselves with data clearly violating this assumption and without sufficient sample size to use distribution-free estimation methods. Fortunately, promising alternatives are being integrated into popular software packages. For estimating model chi square values and parameter standard errors, EQS (P. Bentler, 1996) combats the effects of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Chi Square, Computer Software, Error of Measurement, Estimation (Mathematics), Monte...
The purpose of this study was to examine the cognitive predictors of calculations and number line estimation with whole numbers and fractions. At-risk 4th-grade students (N = 139) were assessed on 7 domain-general abilities (i.e., working memory, processing speed, concept formation, language, attentive behavior, and nonverbal reasoning) and incoming calculation skill at the start of 4th grade. Then, they were assessed on whole-number and fraction calculation and number line estimation measures...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Predictor Variables, At Risk Students, Grade 4, Elementary School Students,...
The Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP), a randomized, classroom-based mental health intervention, aimed to improve teachers' behavior management of preschoolers' dysregulated behavior. The current follow-up study examines potential impacts on academic skills of first graders by enhancing their ATL. This investigation seeks to answer three research questions: (1) Did children in the CSRP control group have lower academic ratings in first grade, when compared to the children who were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Control Groups, School Readiness, Intervention, Structural Equation Models,...
