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Wood, Melissa Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative, experimental study was to determine if there was a significant difference in 2016 Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBA) English language arts (ELA) writing levels and ELA overall achievement levels between 7th- and 8th-grade students with and without access to Chromebooks for at least one 46-minute period of…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Laptop Computers, Statistical Analysis, Language Arts
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Shadish, William R.; Galindo, Rodolfo; Wong, Vivian C.; Steiner, Peter M.; Cook, Thomas D. – Psychological Methods, 2011
In this article, we review past studies comparing randomized experiments to regression discontinuity designs, mostly finding similar results, but with significant exceptions. The latter might be due to potential confounds of study characteristics with assignment method or with failure to estimate the same parameter over methods. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Experiments, Comparative Analysis, Nonparametric Statistics
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Doolan, Stephen M. – CATESOL Journal, 2011
"Generation 1.5" is a term being used to describe a type of second language (L2) long-term U.S. resident who may demonstrate persistent language-related challenges (Roberge, Siegel, & Harklau, 2009). Among the difficulties commonly noted with Generation 1.5 students are problems in controlling the academic register expected in…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Academic Discourse