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Owen, Katherine B.; Parker, Philip D.; Van Zanden, Brooke; MacMillan, Freya; Astell-Burt, Thomas; Lonsdale, Chris – Educational Psychologist, 2016
Physical activity is associated with numerous health benefits in youth; however, these benefits could extend further than health, into education. Our aim was to systematically review and combine in meta-analyses evidence concerning the association between physical activity and the dimensions of school engagement, including behavior (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Learner Engagement, Youth
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Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Filmer, Deon; McIntyre, Joe – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and regression discontinuity (RD) studies both provide estimates of causal effects. A major difference between the two is that RD only estimates local average treatment effects (LATE) near the cutoff point of the forcing variable. This has been cited as a drawback to RD designs (Cook & Wong, 2008).…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Regression (Statistics), Research Problems, Comparative Analysis