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Srisombat Nawanopparatsakul; Surawut Watana; Theerada Taesotikul; Patamawan Phuagphong; Chatchai Chinpaisal – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
One of the essential skills that pharmacy students should develop is the ability to evaluate randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to assess the clinical efficacy and safety of pharmaceuticals. This study aimed to enhance the RCT evaluation skills of fifth-year pharmacy students. It employed the CASP checklist application to assess clinical studies…
Descriptors: Pharmaceutical Education, Skill Development, Randomized Controlled Trials, Medical Students
Ethan Prihar; Manaal Syed; Korinn Ostrow; Stacy Shaw; Adam Sales; Neil Heffernan – Grantee Submission, 2022
As online learning platforms become more ubiquitous throughout various curricula, there is a growing need to evaluate the effectiveness of these platforms and the different methods used to structure online education and tutoring. Towards this endeavor, some platforms have performed randomized controlled experiments to compare different user…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Electronic Learning, Educational Experience, Educational Experiments
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Ethan Prihar; Manaal Syed; Korinn Ostrow; Stacy Shaw; Adam Sales; Neil Heffernan – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2022
As online learning platforms become more ubiquitous throughout various curricula, there is a growing need to evaluate the effectiveness of these platforms and the different methods used to structure online education and tutoring. Towards this endeavor, some platforms have performed randomized controlled experiments to compare different user…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Electronic Learning, Educational Experience, Educational Experiments
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Sales, Adam C.; Botelho, Anthony; Patikorn, Thanaporn; Heffernan, Neil T. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
Randomized A/B tests in educational software are not run in a vacuum: often, reams of historical data are available alongside the data from a randomized trial. This paper proposes a method to use this historical data--often highdimensional and longitudinal--to improve causal estimates from A/B tests. The method proceeds in two steps: first, fit a…
Descriptors: Courseware, Data Analysis, Causal Models, Prediction
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Ferguson, Kristin M. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Purpose: This randomized controlled trial compared the efficacy between the Social Enterprise Intervention (SEI) and Individual Placement and Support (IPS) with homeless youth with mental illness to assess their impact on nonvocational outcomes. Method: Seventy-two homeless youth were recruited from one agency and randomized to the SEI (n = 36) or…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Homeless People
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Lazarinis, Fotis; Verykios, Vassilios S.; Panagiotakopoulos, Chris – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
In this paper we present a mobile application for self-assessment. The work describes the main features of the application and focuses on its acceptance by students and the increase on their learning, through its usage in real testing settings. The application supports the retrieval of questions based on a number of criteria and it was evaluated…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices