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Sangbaek Park – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation used synthetic datasets, semi-synthetic datasets, and a real-world dataset from an educational intervention to compare the performance of 15 machine learning and multiple imputation methods to estimate the individual treatment effect (ITE). In addition, it examined the performance of five evaluation metrics that can be used to…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computation, Evaluation Methods, Bayesian Statistics
Anastasia Parrish – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The problem this study addressed was whether an intervention, grounded in Reading Recovery strategies, was as effective when used with struggling readers in small groups as it is in 1:1 instruction. The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to investigate the differences in student performance between students who received small group…
Descriptors: Small Group Instruction, Intervention, Reading, Reading Difficulties
Edwards, Lynn Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of the current study was to use a conceptual model to identify possible causal mechanisms at play in the phrase drill (PD) intervention. The study was carried out by isolating and investigating modeling and sentence repetition, which are two specific instructional components that are typically used in PD, by creating instructional…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Drills (Practice), Reading Instruction, Sentences
Rose, Roderick A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
An important target of education policy is to improve overall teacher effectiveness using evidence-based policies. Randomized control trials (RCTs), which randomly assign study participants or groups of participants to treatment and control conditions, are not always practical or possible and observational studies using rigorous quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Causal Models, Inferences, Observation
Voortman, Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Recently, several philosophical and computational approaches to causality have used an interventionist framework to clarify the concept of causality [Spirtes et al., 2000, Pearl, 2000, Woodward, 2005]. The characteristic feature of the interventionist approach is that causal models are potentially useful in predicting the effects of manipulations.…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Mathematics, Prediction, Intervention
Walker, Jessica M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Traditional mathematics education focuses on teaching rote procedures to solve problems, though these procedures are not usually motivated by goals. As a result, students have trouble flexibly using procedures and generalizing their knowledge to solve novel problems that differ from the problems they practice during instruction. In the following…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Intervention, Teaching Methods