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Friedman-Krauss, Allison H.; Connors, Maia C.; Morris, Pamela A. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
As a result of the 1998 reauthorization of Head Start, the Department of Health and Human Services conducted a national evaluation of the Head Start program. The goal of Head Start is to improve the school readiness skills of low-income children in the United States. There is a substantial body of experimental and correlational research that has…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Preschool Education, School Readiness, Low Income Groups
Stallings, William M. – 1968
It was hypothesized that instruction in descriptive geometry produces an increase in SRT scores. The resultant data do not firmly support this hypothesis. It is suggested that this study be replicated with the use of randomly selected control groups. (MS)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Achievement Gains, College Students, Control Groups
Magidson, Jay; Sorbom, Dag – 1980
Evaluations of social programs based upon quasi-experimental designs are typically plagued by problems of nonequivalence between the experimental and comparison group prior to the experiment. In such settings it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to isolate the effects of the program from the confounding effects associated with the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Experimental Groups