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Fien Allemeersch; Kristiane Van Lierde; Nick Verhaeghe; Kim Bettens; Tara Mouton; Greet Hens; Cassandra Alighieri – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: In children with a cleft palate with or without a cleft lip (CP±L), some evidence exists for superior results of high-intensity speech intervention (HISI) compared with low-intensity speech intervention (LISI) on speech and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, the existing research often involves small sample sizes.…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Speech Impairments, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel
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Azzolini, Davide; Marzadro, Sonia; Rettore, Enrico; Engelhardt, Katja; Hertz, Benjamin; Wastiau, Patricia – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Online courses have become an increasingly attractive format for delivering teacher training. However, the low retention rates are a critical and still unsolved issue. This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial aimed at testing the impact of a personalized support model on teachers' retention in online training courses. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Secondary School Teachers, Student Teachers
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van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Cost-utility analyses are slowly becoming part of randomized control trials evaluating physical and mental health treatments and (preventive) interventions in child and adolescent development. The British National Institute of Health and Care Excellence, for example, insists on the use of gains in Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) to compute the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Intervention, Behavior Problems, Children
Duflo, Annie; Kiessel, Jessica; Lucas, Adrienne – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
Randomized controlled trials in lower-income countries have demonstrated ways to increase learning, in specific settings. This study uses a large-scale, nationwide RCT in Ghana to show the external validity of four school-based interventions inspired by other RCTs. Even though the government implemented the programs within existing systems,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Validity, Academic Achievement
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Chan, Randolph C. H.; Mak, Winnie W. S.; Pang, Ingrid H. Y.; Wong, Samuel Y. S.; Tang, Wai Kwong; Lau, Joseph T. F.; Woo, Jean; Lee, Diana T. F.; Cheung, Fanny M. – Field Methods, 2018
The present study examined whether, when, and how motivational messaging can boost the response rate of postal surveys for physicians based on Higgin's regulatory focus theory, accounting for its cost-effectiveness. A three-arm, blinded, randomized controlled design was used. A total of 3,270 doctors were randomly selected from the registration…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Physician Patient Relationship, Randomized Controlled Trials, Computer Mediated Communication
de Hoop, Thomas; Brudevold-Newman, Andrew; Davis, Dustin – American Institutes for Research, 2018
Low- and middle-income countries have made significant progress getting children into school, but student learning and achievement are often dreadfully low (Berry, Barnett, & Hinton, 2015; Pritchett, 2013). Approximately 250 million children across the world are not acquiring basic reading and math skills, even though about half have spent at…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Networks, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology
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Demack, Sean; Maxwell, Bronwen; Coldwell, Mike; Stevens, Anna; Wolstenholme, Claire; Reaney-Wood, Sarah; Stiell, Bernadette; Lortie-Forgues, Hugues – Education Endowment Foundation, 2021
This report presents findings from exploratory, descriptive meta-analyses of effect sizes reported by the first 82 EEF evaluations that used a randomised controlled trial (RCT) or clustered RCT impact evaluation design published up to January 2019. The review used a theoretical framework derived from literature with five overarching themes to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
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Demack, Sean; Maxwell, Bronwen; Coldwell, Mike; Stevens, Anna; Wolstenholme, Claire; Reaney-Wood, Sarah; Stiell, Bernadette; Lortie-Forgues, Hugues – Education Endowment Foundation, 2021
This document summarises key findings from the quantitative strands of a review of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) evaluations that had reported from the establishment of EEF in 2011 up to January 2019. The quantitative strands summarised include meta-analyses of effect sizes reported for attainment outcomes and descriptive analyses of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
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Demack, Sean; Maxwell, Bronwen; Coldwell, Mike; Stevens, Anna; Wolstenholme, Claire; Reaney-Wood, Sarah; Stiell, Bernadette; Lortie-Forgues, Hugues – Education Endowment Foundation, 2021
This document provides supplementary statistical tables to support the review of Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) evaluations. This includes: (1) Descriptive (univariate) tables for all explanatory variables; (2) Tables for the meta-analyses of primary ITT effect sizes; (3) Tables for the meta-analyses of secondary ITT effect sizes; (4) Tables…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
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Klees, Steven J. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2018
To experiment with the possible privatisation of its primary education system, Liberia initiated the Partnership Schools of Liberia (PSL), which turned over the management of 93 public schools to eight private contractors. A randomised controlled trial (RCT) study was initiated comparing the PSL schools with matched public schools and the results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Privatization, Public Schools, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Fleisch, Brahm; Dixon, Kerryn – South African Journal of Education, 2019
The Grade 2 learner results of the Early Grade Reading Study (EGRS) randomised control trial (RCT) in the North West province showed that the structured pedagogic intervention model that included instructional coaching, lesson plans, and quality learning materials was more cost-effective than a similar intervention model that excluded coaching.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Dawson, Anneka; Yeomans, Emily; Brown, Elena Rosa – Educational Research, 2018
Background: The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is an independent charity that was established in 2011 with the explicit aim of breaking the link between family income and educational achievement in England. Over the seven years since its inception, EEF has contributed to the existing evidence base by funding over one hundred randomised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Randomized Controlled Trials, Research Problems
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Chinen, Marjorie; Bos, Hans; Murray, Matthew; Hamadani, Jena; Hossain, Najmul; Mahmud, Minhaj – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Globally, at least 200 million children younger than five years old are falling short of their potential for development and growth. There is some evidence that improvements to children's health, nutrition, and development outcomes can be made through programs that provide direct learning experiences to children and families; are targeted toward…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Capacity Building, Child Development, Parents
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Hickey, Grainne; McGilloway, Sinead; Hyland, Lynda; Leckey, Yvonne; Kelly, Paul; Bywater, Tracey; Comiskey, Catherine; Lodge, Anne; Donnelly, Michael; O'Neill, Donal – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
Teachers frequently struggle to cope with conduct problems in the classroom. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Training Programme for improving teacher competencies and child adjustment. The study involved a group randomised controlled trial which included 22 teachers and 217…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Behavior, Student Behavior
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West, Mel; Ainscow, Mel; Wigelsworth, Michael; Troncoso, Patricio – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
Challenge the Gap (CtG) is a school collaboration programme designed by Challenge Partners that aims to break the link between disadvantage and attainment. The main components of CtG are: (1) after-school workshops drawing on published research and evidenced practice; (2) focused in-school interventions with a selected cohort of disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Research Reports, Disadvantaged, Educational Attainment
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