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Klatte, Maria; Hellbruck, Jurgen; Seidel, Jochen; Leistner, Philip – Environment and Behavior, 2010
Children are more impaired than adults by unfavorable listening conditions such as reverberation and noise. Nevertheless, the acoustical conditions in classrooms often do not fit the specific needs of young listeners. This field study aimed to analyze the effects of classroom reverberation on children's performance and well-being at school.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Short Term Memory, Acoustics, Well Being
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Eshet-Alkalai, Yoram; Chajut, Eran – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2010
The expansion of digital technologies and the rapid changes they undergo through time face users with new cognitive, social, and ergonomic challenges that they need to master in order to perform effectively. In recent years, following empirical reports on performance differences between different age-groups, there is a debate in the research…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Computer Literacy, Information Skills, Cognitive Development
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Puma, Michael J.; Olsen, Robert B.; Bell, Stephen H.; Price, Cristofer – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2009
This NCEE Technical Methods report examines how to address the problem of missing data in the analysis of data in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) of educational interventions, with a particular focus on the common educational situation in which groups of students such as entire classrooms or schools are randomized. Missing outcome data are a…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Design, Research Methodology, Control Groups
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Holzinger, Andreas; Kickmeier-Rust, Michael; Albert, Dietrich – Educational Technology & Society, 2008
With the increasing use of dynamic media in multimedia learning material, it is important to consider not only the technological but also the cognitive aspects of its application. A large amount of previous research does not provide preference to either static or dynamic media for educational purposes and a considerable number of studies found…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Computer Science Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Program Effectiveness
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Krampen, Gunter – Educational Psychology, 2010
The effects of relaxation exercises on orthography performance in language arts education of fifth to seventh graders were experimentally tested. Participants were 399 basic secondary school students and their language arts teachers from the Hauptschule, a German type of secondary education covering grades five to nine that leads to a basic…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Verbal Communication, Language Arts
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McNamee, Jeff; Steffen, Jeff – Physical Educator, 2007
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the effects of performance cues on beginning indoor rock climbers. A secondary purpose was to create a content analysis for the skill of indoor rock climbing. The utility of performance cues has been demonstrated from a pedagogical perspective in traditional physical activity settings. However, no…
Descriptors: Investigations, Cues, Physical Activities, Control Groups
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Plante, Elena; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1993
This paper reviews limitations in the interpretations of group differences in studies that use younger, language-matched controls in addition to age-matched controls to examine the role of "language level" on performance. Problems arise because of the multidimensional nature of language, extraneous age effects associated with language matching,…
Descriptors: Children, Control Groups, Language Handicaps, Language Skills