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Arum, Richard; Roksa, Josipa; Cho, Esther – Social Science Research Council, 2011
The authors have systematically investigated the state of undergraduate learning in contemporary colleges and universities. Following several thousand traditional-age students as they enrolled in coursework from Fall 2005 to Spring 2009, across a wide range of four-year colleges and universities, the authors found a set of conditions suggesting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Study, Educational Indicators, College Outcomes Assessment
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Miller, Ruth H.; Niemeier, Martha W. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1987
Acquisitions librarians at two different universities studied the performance of four serials vendors by ordering the same titles at the same time. The study shows which vendor performed best in areas of delivery time, discount, fulfillment, and service, and also provides supportive data for management decisions in acquisitions. (Author/EM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Costs, Library Acquisition
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Zentall, Sydney S. – Journal of Special Education, 1989
The performance of 20 hyperactive and 26 comparison elementary-school boys on a spelling recognition task found that color facilitates attention to detail. Hyperactive children who practiced the task with all black letters first and color added later out-performed comparison children. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Color, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Hayden, Alys M.; Tomporowski, Phillip D. – 1988
This research study evaluated the effects of memory demand on sustained attention, by varying the time interval between the presentations of stimuli in a cognitive vigilance task. Sixteen retarded and 16 nonretarded adult observers performed four 60-minute visual vigilance tasks in which single digits were presented sequentially and successively…
Descriptors: Adults, Attention, Attention Span, Comparative Analysis
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Scott, Marcia S.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
Normally achieving, learning-disabled and mildly retarded students (n=148, ages 6-9) were trained to select the odd picture of a 3-picture array. Mildly retarded subjects showed large, consistent performance differences from the other groups, but learning-disabled subjects could not effectively be distinguished from normally achieving peers.…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education
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Osborn, Robert G.; Meador, Darlene M. – Behavioral Disorders, 1990
This study compared the performance of depressed and nondepressed males (ages 9-11) on tasks requiring overt rehearsal and free recall. The depressed children rehearsed less both in repetition of words and in the size of their rehearsal sets and recalled fewer words. It is concluded that depressed children have short-term memory processing…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Disturbances, Intermediate Grades
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Liles, Betty Z.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1989
Twenty-three normal adults and four closed head-injured (CHI) adults with a high level of language recovery retold and generated stories. The two tasks differentially influenced the performance of both groups. The two groups differed in measures of cohesiveness and story grammar only in the story generation task. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Coherence, Comparative Analysis, Expressive Language
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Martin, James E.; And Others – Exceptionality: A Research Journal, 1990
This study compared use of trainer demonstrations and use of visual cues across varying difficulties of task, by 20 mentally retarded secondary-aged students. Results found that photographs and line drawings were more effective with mildly/moderately retarded students than demonstrations when working with complex tasks. No differences were found…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Cues, Demonstrations (Educational)
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Plunkett, Daniel – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1990
Three independent divisions of a large public agency, each with between 35 and 55 members, were randomly divided into experimental, placebo, and control groups for an intervention emphasizing decision-making and goal-setting practices that promote maximum employee interaction and participation. Results indicate increased levels of creativity after…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Creative Development, Creativity
Guzzetti, Barbara; Martin, Michael – 1984
This study measures performance frequency of leadership tasks of approximately 20 percent of Colorado's principals. Principals most experienced do not differ from others on the frequency assessment scale, yet spend more time on instructional leadership activities, which range from teacher support (professional growth opportunities, rewards) and…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ault, Melinda Jones; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1990
The use of predictable and unpredictable trial sequences during small-group instruction was evaluated in teaching word and abbreviation identification to 4 students (age 8-10) with learning disabilities. No consistent effects of the trial presentation methods were found across 3 investigations, which involved progressive time-delay procedures and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Fixed Sequence, Instructional Effectiveness
Wilson, Kenneth M. – 1983
The criterion most frequently used in studies designed to assess the predictive validity of measures used in college admission has been the freshman-year grade point average (GPA). It is not self-evident that the first-year GPA provides either a sufficient or a representative sample of a student's academic performance. Questions have been raised…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
Rockwell, Dale L. – 1991
This study examined two approaches to self-instruction by hearing-impaired students through use of instructor-developed science modules. Subjects were 24 students (ages 18-28) enrolled in allied health programs at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. The first approach involved the reading of science modules and writing answers on study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Autoinstructional Aids, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Roberts, M. Susan; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1990
Examines how reading ability relates to course performance in an introductory developmental psychology course. Compares personalized system of instruction (PSI) to contingency managed lecture (CML) sections. Shows previous academic performance best predicted final examination scores for CML students while reading comprehension best predicted PSI…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, College Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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McAfee, Mary C.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1990
This study compared the spoken and written English errors of 20 severely hearing-impaired postsecondary students with intelligible speech but poor English language. Writing samples exhibited a greater number of function word errors than did speech samples; there were no significant differences in content and structure errors. Implications for…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
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