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Direct linkKelcey, Ben; Shen, Zuchao – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
School-based improvement programs represent a core strategy in improving education because they can leverage pre-existing social and organizational structures to promote coordinated and comprehensive change across multiple facets of schooling. School-based programs are generally designed to be implemented by intact schools/districts, frequently…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Design, Educational Improvement
Hill, Oliver W.; Serpell, Zewelanji; Faison, M. Omar – Journal of Experimental Education, 2016
This article describes two studies testing the efficacy of a commercial one-on-one cognitive training program (LearningRx) and its computer-based version (Brainskills) in laboratory and school settings. Study 1 tested Brainskills in a laboratory setting with 322 middle school students. Paired "t"-tests revealed significant gains on all…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Individual Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Middle School Students
Download full textBoyle, Robert W.; Farreras, Ingrid G. – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2015
This experiment tested the effect that calculator use had on 200 randomly assigned college students' mathematical performance. The purposes of the current experiment were twofold: to measure the level of mathematical preparation of current college students, and to test whether calculators improve mathematical performance in such students as it…
Descriptors: Calculators, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Mathematics Achievement
