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Benjamin A. Motz; Öykü Üner; Harmony E. Jankowski; Marcus A. Christie; Kim Burgas; Diego del Blanco Orobitg; Mark A. McDaniel – Grantee Submission, 2023
For researchers seeking to improve education, a common goal is to identify teaching practices that have causal benefits in classroom settings. To test whether an instructional practice exerts a causal influence on an outcome measure, the most straightforward and compelling method is to conduct an experiment. While experimentation is common in…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Experiments, Learning Processes, Learning Management Systems
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Vellinga, Akke; Devine, Colum; Ho, Min Yun; Clarke, Colin; Leahy, Patrick; Bourke, Jane; Devane, Declan; Duane, Sinead; Kearney, Patricia – Research Ethics, 2020
Incentivising has shown to improve participation in clinical trials. However, ethical concerns suggest that incentives may be coercive, obscure trial risks and encourage individuals to enrol in clinical trials for the wrong reasons. The aim of our study was to develop and pilot a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to explore and identify preferences…
Descriptors: Patients, Value Judgment, Incentives, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Buchanan, Taylor L.; Lohse, Keith R. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2016
We surveyed researchers in the health and exercise sciences to explore different areas and magnitudes of bias in researchers' decision making. Participants were presented with scenarios (testing a central hypothesis with p = 0.06 or p = 0.04) in a random order and surveyed about what they would do in each scenario. Participants showed significant…
Descriptors: Researchers, Attitudes, Statistical Significance, Bias