Using research well in educational practice

Basic Research and Implications for Educational Practice

A powerful way of improving one’s memory for material is to be tested on that material. Tests enhance later retention more than additional study of the material, even when tests are given without feedback. This surprising phenomenon is called the testing effect, and although it has been studied by cognitive psychologists sporadically over the years, today there is a renewed effort to learn why ...

Integrating Educational Research and Practice: Reconceptualizing Goals

Application of Structural Equation Modeling in Educational Research and Practice

Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is a statistical approach to testing hypothesis about the relationships among observed and latent variables. The use of SEM in research has increased in psychology, sociology, and economics in recent years. In particular educational researchers try to obtain the complete image of the process of education through the measurement of personality differences, lear...

Using Sociological Research In Educational System Design

Background Currently, one of the most difficult problems facing students, teachers and their parents in educational settings is the high and growing incidence of bullying. A plethora of materials has been developed to assist people to deal with bullying but a review of the literature reveals that most approaches are didactic in nature. That is they take the teacher’s, parent’s or designer’s (ex...

Using Regression Mixture Analysis in Educational Research

Conventional regression analysis is typically used in educational research. Usually such an analysis implicitly assumes that a common set of regression parameter estimates captures the population characteristics represented in the sample. In some situations, however, this implicit assumption may not be realistic, and the sample may contain several subpopulations such as high math achievers and ...