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Chen, Tan-I; Lin, Shih-Kai; Chung, Hung-Chang – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2023
The combination of education and robots is becoming an increasingly important issue. Although researchers have conducted some studies on educational robotics in STEM education at the undergraduate level, no research examined the effects of gamified educational robotics on participants' motivation and creativity. Therefore, this study examines the…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Robotics
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Yongfei Ban; Ji Sun; Bingyu Bai; Jiang Liu – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2024
Although several studies have highlighted a significant association between parent-adolescent attachment and well-being in normal adolescents, studies exploring this relationship among hearing-impaired adolescents are scarce. The current study examined the association of parent-adolescent attachment with well-being and the underlying mechanism of…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Student Welfare
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Mendonca, Goncalo V.; Borges, Afonso; Wee, Sang O.; Fernhall, Bo – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
Background: Persons with Down syndrome (DS) have low aerobic exercise capacity. The present authors sought to compare the oxygen uptake efficiency slope (OUES) between adults with and without DS performing graded exercise testing (GXT) and to investigate its relationship with peak oxygen uptake (VO[subscript 2peak]) in both groups of participants.…
Descriptors: Exercise, Physiology, Down Syndrome, Control Groups
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York, Richard – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2018
A common motivation for adding control variables to statistical models is to reduce the potential for spurious findings when analyzing non-experimental data and to thereby allow for more reliable causal inferences. However, as I show here, unless "all" potential confounding factors are included in an analysis (which is unlikely to be…
Descriptors: Inferences, Control Groups, Correlation, Experimental Groups
Sally P. W. Wu; Martina A. Rau – Grantee Submission, 2019
Recent research suggests that drawing activities can help students learn concepts in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. In particular, drawing activities, which mimic the practices of STEM professionals, can help students engage with visual-spatial content. However, prior work has also shown that students…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, STEM Education, Learning Processes, College Students
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Sally P. W. Wu; Martina A. Rau – Educational Psychology Review, 2019
Recent research suggests that drawing activities can help students learn concepts in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. In particular, drawing activities, which mimic the practices of STEM professionals, can help students engage with visual-spatial content. However, prior work has also shown that students…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, STEM Education, Learning Processes, College Students
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El Batri, Bouchta; Alami, Anouar; Zaki, Moncef; Nafidi, Youssef; Chenfour, Driss – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2019
This research paper aims to promote environmental knowledge and behavior in the Moroccan school through the syllabus of science at the level of the Moroccan middle School. As a first step, a comparative multi-case study was conducted. It is intended for students from four middle Schools who belong to four different socio-environmental backgrounds.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Syllables, Active Learning
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Portelli, Pamela – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2018
This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief Alcohol Expectancy Challenge, with the aim of reducing the prevalence of alcohol consumption amongst Maltese teenagers.119 students were randomly allocated to a control or a 3-hour expectancy challenge session. Alcohol consumption and alcohol expectancies were investigated via a…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Prevention, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking
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Lee, Maunoo; Krishnamurthy, Jayasree; Susi, Apryl; Sullivan, Carolyn; Gorman, Gregory H.; Hisle-Gorman, Elizabeth; Erdie-Lalena, Christine R.; Nylund, Cade M. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) both have multifactorial pathogenesis with an increasing number of studies demonstrating gut-brain associations. We aim to examine the association between ASD and IBD using strict classification criteria for IBD. We conducted a retrospective case-cohort study using records from…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Diseases, Comorbidity
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Demirci, Deniz; Dilbaz, Emre; Akar, Firuzan – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The aim of this study was to investigate the locomotor activity and anxiety changes in acute and chronic exposure to cigarette smoke in mice. In the chronic exposure group, mice were exposed to the smoke of 10 cigarettes for 5 days a week, over 5 consecutive weeks. In the acute group, the mice were exposed to the smoke of 10 cigarettes in one day.…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Anxiety, Animals, Smoking
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Yi-Ling Chien; Yueh-Ming Tai; Yen-Nan Chiu; Wen-Che Tsai; Susan Shur-Fen Gau – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
The mediators of real-world executive functions in autism during the transition into adulthood are mainly unknown. This study aimed to identify the mediators for the behavioral and cognitive domains of real-world executive functions in late adolescent and young adult autistic populations. We followed up 289 autistic children (aged 11.6 ± 3.8, male…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Executive Function, Metacognition, Correlation
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Peñuelas-Calvo, Inmaculada; Sareen, Aditya; Sevilla-Llewellyn-Jones, Julia; Fernández-Berrocal, Pablo – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
We conducted a meta-analysis of 18 studies to establish whether a relation exists between Reading the Mind in the Eye Test (RMET) performance and intelligence quotient (IQ) in individuals diagnosed with autism-spectrum disorders (ASD) and controls, taking into account relevant characteristics such as age, gender, and autism quotient. Our findings…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Control Groups, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Margunayasa, I. Gede; Dantes, Nyoman; Marhaeni, A. A. I. N.; Suastra, I. Wayan – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
This research was aimed to analyze the effect of interaction between guided inquiry learning and cognitive style on students' science learning achievement. This study was a quasi-experiment with a 2×2 factorial design. The study was done with the fifth grade students in Singaraja City. The sample was selected using multi stage random sampling and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Science Achievement, Experimental Groups, Control Groups
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Soltys, Stephen M.; Scherbel, Jill Rose; Kurian, Joseph R.; Diebold, Todd; Wilson, Teresa; Hedden, Lindsay; Groesch, Kathleen; Diaz-Sylvester, Paula L.; Botchway, Albert; Campbell, Pamela; Loret de Mola, Julio Ricardo – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
A case-control study was performed to determine whether an association exists between exposure to synthetic oxytocin and a subsequent autism spectrum disorder diagnosis; 171 children under age 18 meeting "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (5th ed.) autism spectrum disorder criteria were compared to 171 children…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Control Groups, Correlation, Drug Use
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Lin, Tin-Chun – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The author examined whether game play improves students' comprehension, attendance, and exam performance. The author designed three games; 120 students in introductory microeconomics classes participated in these experiments. The evidence showed that game play enhances students' attendance, comprehension, and exam performance. It also showed that…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Microeconomics, Teaching Methods, Games
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