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Li, Chenglu; Xing, Wanli; Leite, Walter L. – Distance Education, 2022
Help-seeking is a valuable practice in online discussion forums. However, the asynchronicity and information overload of online discussion forums have made it challenging for help seekers and providers to connect effectively. This study formulated a new method to provide fair and accurate insights toward building a peer recommender to support…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Help Seeking, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
Li, Chenglu; Xing, Wanli; Leite, Walter L. – Grantee Submission, 2022
Help-seeking is a valuable practice in online discussion forums. However, the asynchronicity and information overload of online discussion forums have made it challenging for help seekers and providers to connect effectively. This study formulated a new method to provide fair and accurate insights toward building a peer recommender to support…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Help Seeking, Electronic Learning, Distance Education
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Harris, Douglas N.; Rutledge, Stacey A.; Ingle, William K.; Thompson, Cynthia C. – Education Finance and Policy, 2010
The vast majority of research and policy related to teacher quality focuses on the supply of teachers and ignores teacher demand. In particular, the important role of school principals in hiring teachers is rarely considered. Using interviews of school principals in a midsized Florida school district, we provide an exploratory mixed methods…
Descriptors: Principals, Teacher Selection, Teacher Characteristics, Intelligence
KENNEDY, WALLACE A.; WILLCUTT, HERMAN C. – 1963
AN EXTENSIVE REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE SINCE 1900 SEEMS TO INDICATE THAT, IN SOME WAY, THERE IS AN INTERACTION BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE, AGE, SOCIAL GROUP, AND THE EFFECTS OF PRAISE AND BLAME ON SCHOOL CHILDREN. INCONSISTENCIES IN EXPERIMENTAL FACTORS HAVE PRECLUDED ANY DEFINITIVE STATEMENTS REGARDING THE PROBLEM. AN INVESTIGATION OF THE…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Motivation Techniques, Performance Factors, Reinforcement
Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2014
Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRISs) have advanced and matured, a number of states and localities have undertaken evaluations to validate the systems. Such efforts stem from the desire to ensure that the system is designed and operating in the ways envisioned when the system was established. Given that a central component in a QRIS…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Program Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality