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Van Sickle, Jenna – PRIMUS, 2015
This paper outlines the experience of a university professor who implemented flipped learning in two sections of college algebra courses for two semesters. It details how the courses were flipped, what technology was used, advantages, challenges, and results. It explains what students do outside of class, what they do inside class, and discusses…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Blended Learning, Educational Technology
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Halcrow, Cheryl; Dunnigan, Gerri – PRIMUS, 2012
This article describes a quantitative and qualitative assessment from a study done on the possible effectiveness of including an online homework component in first-semester calculus. Two instructors, each teaching two sections of Calculus I, agreed to treat one of their sections as an experimental group and the other as a control group. Students…
Descriptors: Homework, Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Experimental Groups
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Ronning, Marte – Economics of Education Review, 2011
Using Dutch data on pupils in elementary school this paper is the first empirical study to analyze whether assigning homework has a heterogeneous impact on pupil achievement. Addressing potential biases by using a difference-in-difference approach, I find that the test score gap is larger in classes where everybody gets homework than in classes…
Descriptors: Homework, Scores, Assignments, Elementary Schools
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Schellenberg, Suzanne; Negishi, Meiko; Eggen, Paul – Teaching Educational Psychology, 2011
The study compared the academic achievement, as measured by final examination scores, of an experimental group of undergraduate educational psychology students who were provided with concrete mechanisms designed to promote metacognition and the use of specific encoding strategies to the achievement of a control group of similar students who were…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Class Activities, Student Attitudes
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Sirvani, Hosin – American Secondary Education, 2007
The study examined the effect of parental involvement on students' mathematics achievement. The investigator selected four Algebra I classes taught by one teacher and randomly placed two classes in the control group and two classes in the experimental group. The parents of the students in the treatment group received monitoring sheets twice a…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Mathematics Achievement, Parent Participation
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Topping, Keith J.; Kearney, Maura; McGee, Edward; Pugh, John – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2004
A pilot study is reported of a generic method for tutoring in mathematics, intended to be suitable for use by peers, parents and volunteers in a wide range of applications. Thirty children aged 9-10 years of below average mathematical ability were randomly allocated to experimental or control conditions. Experimental tutees (n=17) were tutored in…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Mathematics Tests