
Charles Donald DziubanUniversity of Central Florida | UCF · Distributed Learning
Charles Donald Dziuban
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Professor Charles Dziuban from the University of Central Florida, US, shares his expertise in adaptive learning and describes the conditions of its adoption in conversation with Maria Zając.
Clustering of educational data allows similar students to be grouped, in either crisp or fuzzy sets, based on their similarities. Standard approaches are well suited to identifying common student behaviors; however, by design, they put much less emphasis on less common behaviors or outliers. The approach presented in this paper employs fuzzing clus...
Research indicates that mental health and medical professionals often hold negative views of overweight or obese people. Little is known about weight prejudice among social work students. In order to address this gap in the literature, this study examines the attitudes of Bachelor of social work and Master of social work students (n = 250) toward p...
Graduate education is influenced by trends and events that are political, economic, social, technological, and demographic. These materialize into challenges and opportunities for graduate students, an overview of these is provided in the paper along with recommendations for navigating graduate education, written from the perspective of individuals...
Blended learning, which combines the strength of face-to-face and technology-enhanced learning, is increasingly being seen as one of the most important vehicles for education reform today. Blended learning allows both teacher and learner access to radically increased possibilities for understanding how we transmit and receive information, how we in...
This book emerged from a series of blended learning workshops, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2004 and 2005 at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC). Thirty professional educators with online learning experience were invited to share their expertise in blended learning and to develop a national perspective. This book represents t...
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES ON THE: INTERNET and the World Wide Web have tended to drive online pedagogy. It is time to reverse this relationship and make the needs of teaching and learning take priority. The authors propose three different formats for, utilizing the Web in online and classroom instruction. These formats were developed in a program for...
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Discusses William A. Long's trait theory of personality based on reactive behavior patterns. Argues that reactive behavior patterns in students are defined by two dimensions: aggressive/passive and dependent/independent. Suggests that Long's trait theory has important implications for developing effective classroom teaching strategies. Contains 18...
85 teachers in multitrack year-round schools stated that communication had deteriorated, especially for those who were not currently teaching.
This study examines the influence of judges' item-related knowledge on standard setting for competency tests. Seventeen judges took a 122-item high-school teacher certification test in economics while setting competency standards for the test using the Angoff procedure. Judges tended to set higher standards for items they answered correctly and low...
The difficulty in understanding adolescent behavior often causes adults to react in unhealthy ways, leading to the deterioration of adult-child relationships. The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of scaling constructs which adolescents use in their daily coping; constructs which can be understood, administered, and interpreted...
The researchers assessed the effect of a vocational exploration assignment on the career decisiveness of college students who said that they were career decisive. The results of the study showed decision shifting in the treatment group but not in the control group. The researchers concluded that career indecisiveness relates to a lack of clarity re...
This paper describes the results of a program for enhancing technology awareness of 73 students and 35 teachers in an elementary school environment using a program designed for students' exploration of careers and enhanced self-esteem. Analysis indicated that teachers increased their knowledge of technology
Rating scale data on the face validity of competencies in computer science teaching were compared for three groups (150 practitioners, 67 district specialists, 101 faculty). Through the use of Boxplots certain trends were readily identified. Implications for curricular validity were discussed.
Several measures of school desegregation were computed for all public school districts in Florida. Outcomes of desegregation comparisons by district size indicated that selection of a particular index dictates the results. Implications for the validity of desegregation studies were discussed.
Administered the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory and the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory to 175 community college students seeking career counseling to examine the relationship between personality patterns and vocational interests. Results indicate that impossible agendas may be the basis for career indecision among some students. Three per...
Achievement and developmental domain test scores of 226 pupils in Grade 3 were used to predict scholastic performance. The developmental scores added significantly to predictability afforded by the achievement tests alone. Consideration for the use of both domains was urged.
Rescaled image analysis was applied to the item scores of a primary screening instrument. Auditory, motor, language, and visual subscales were readily retrieved and identified. Strong correlations were found among several components, however. Implications for the use of primary screening devices were discussed.
The relationships among several suggested indices of school desegregation were examined. The measures were discussed for their utility in the remedy process. Issues involved in the formulation of desegregation indices were related to kinds of information they yielded. Recommendations were made for the properties of an effective index.
The study of the movement to desegregate the public schools of this country has led to the development of numerous indices of desegregation. These measures have been used for various purposes, including assessing the effectiveness of desegregation efforts, the changes in patterns of desegregation, and the relationship between desegregation status a...
Version Two of the Kaiser Measures of Sampling Adequacy was derived for a typical six-concept Semantic Differential. The over-all indices indicated that both concept and total correlation matrices would lead to comparable decisions regarding the psychometric quality of the sample data sets. The individual measures, however, showed considerable vari...
The distributional characteristics of Kaiser's Measure of Sampling Adequacy (MSA) were investigated in sample matrices generated from multivariate normal populations of specified correlation levels (LC). Systematic variation of sample size (SS) and number of variables (NV) revealed the overall MSA to be most influenced by NV. The implications of th...
The distributional characteristics of the measure of sampling adequacy (MSA) were investigated in sample correlation matrices generated from multivariate normal populations with covariance matrix equal to the identity. Systematic variation of sample size and number of variables resulted in minimal fluctuation of the overall MSA from .50. Implicatio...
An illustration of a test for independence was provided with a mixed set of variables. The matrix consisted of 10 tests of interest and four random deviates in which the relationship between sets was demonstrated to be minimal. The result was discussed for a situation in which factoring methods might be considered.
Discusses 3 techniques for assessing the psychometric adequacy of correlation matrices; (a) computation of M. S. Bartlett's test of sphericity, (b) inspection of the off-diagonal elements of the anti-image covariance matrix, and (c) computation of the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin 1970 measure of sampling adequacy. The advantages and disadvantages of each are...
Responses regarding functions performed were gathered from thirty-seven of the largest public school research bureaus in the United States. Phi coefficients were computed and the matrix subjected to a principal components resolution. Five functional dimensions-supportive services, applied research functioning, psychometric activity, administrative...
Typescript. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.