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Peskin, Joan; Wells-Jopling, Rebecca – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2012
Although by 11 years children demonstrate impressive performance on various tasks that assess symbolic thinking in language development, research suggests that few young adolescents demonstrate evidence of symbolic processing when reading literature. This study investigated whether the difficulty might be due to a lack of adequate exposure to…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Language Acquisition
Passero, Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study addressed a need for comprehensive quantitative empirical studies to determine the effectiveness of using popular culture media as a teaching technique. A quasi-experimental design was implemented to examine whether a group of community college students taking a first-semester introduction to business course who were exposed to a…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Teaching Styles, Popular Culture, Knowledge Level