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Jonathan Nakamoto; Staci J. Wendt; John A. Rice; Juan Carlos Bojorquez; Anthony Petrosino – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
This case study describes the use of a regression discontinuity design and a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the impact of School Improvement Grants on high school students' reading, mathematics, and science achievement. The high schools that participated in the School Improvement Grant program were very low performing and received…
Descriptors: Grants, Quasiexperimental Design, Research Methodology, Case Studies
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Federer, Meghan Rector; Nehm, Ross H.; Pearl, Dennis K. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Understanding sources of performance bias in science assessment provides important insights into whether science curricula and/or assessments are valid representations of student abilities. Research investigating assessment bias due to factors such as instrument structure, participant characteristics, and item types are well documented across a…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Biology, Science Instruction, Case Studies
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory