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McLean, James E., Ed.; Kaufman, Alan S., Ed. – Research in the Schools, 1998
The controversy about the use or misuse of statistical significance testing has become the major methodological issue in educational research. This special issue contains three articles that explore the controversy, three commentaries on these articles, an overall response, and three rejoinders by the first three authors. They are: (1)…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Effect Size, Hypothesis Testing, Research Methodology
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Ohlsson, Stellan, Ed.; Lehtinen, Erno, Ed. – International Journal of Educational Research, 1997
To enhance the study of abstract knowledge and to make it a central concern in the study of cognition, and to explore the nature of abstractions and the function of abstraction, the seven chapters in this special issue formulate researchable hypotheses, propose working hypotheses, identify major phenomena, and outline possible educational…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Educational Research, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Baggett, Patricia – Educational Technology Reports, 1988
This report describes a procedure for developing multimedia instructions that are "optimized" according to certain criteria, and in particular, compares the effect on performance in building from memory using: (1) interactive videodisc-based assembly instructions or (2) passive videotape instructions. It was found that the group…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Drills (Practice), Higher Education