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Beesley, Andrea D., Ed.; Apthorp, Helen S., Ed. – Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2010
Background: The current study updates and extends the original research synthesis of effective instructional strategies presented in "Classroom Instruction that Works" ("CITW"; Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001). That work identified nine instructional strategies for improving academic achievement and synthesized findings from previous…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Homework, Educational Strategies, Recognition (Achievement)
Wilcox, Rand R. – 1979
Three separate papers are included in this report. The first describes a two-stage procedure for choosing from among several instructional programs the one which maximizes the probability of passing the test. The second gives the exact sample sizes required to determine whether a squared multiple correlation coefficient is above or below a known…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Correlation, Hypothesis Testing, Mathematical Models
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Levin, Joel R.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Education, 1993
Journal editors respond to criticisms of reliance on statistical significance in research reporting. Joel R. Levin ("Journal of Educational Psychology") defends its use, whereas William D. Schafer ("Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development") emphasizes the distinction between statistically significant and important. William Asher…
Descriptors: Editing, Editors, Educational Assessment, Educational Research