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Van der Kooy-Hofland, Verna A. C.; Van der Kooy, Jacoba; Bus, Adriana G.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Bonsel, Gouke J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
In a randomized control trial, the authors tested whether short- and long-term effects of an early literacy intervention are moderated by mild perinatal adversities in accordance with differential susceptibility theory. One-hundred 5-year-old children (58% male) who scored at or below the 30th percentile on early literacy measures were randomized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Research, Research Design, Control Groups
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Savage, Robert; Abrami, Philip C.; Piquette, Noella; Wood, Eileen; Deleveaux, Gia; Sanghera-Sidhu, Sukhbinder; Burgos, Giovani – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
This report describes a cluster randomized control trial (RCT) intervention study of the effectiveness of the ABRACADABRA (ABRA) Web-based literacy system using a classroom-level RCT intervention with 1,067 children in 74 kindergarten and Grade 1 or Grade 1/2 classrooms across Canada. The authors closely followed the CONSORT criteria for executing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Research Design, Early Reading
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Tobias, Sigmund – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1973
The first purpose of this research was to study the effect of distraction on achievement and to clarify some discrepancies in research findings on the effect of response mode. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Computer Assisted Instruction, Data Analysis