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Zhang, Qing; Bonafini, Fernanda Cesar; Lockee, Barbara B.; Jablokow, Kathryn W.; Hu, Xiaoyong – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
This paper investigates the degree to which different variables affect the completion of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Data on those variables, such as age, gender, English proficiency, education level, and motivation for course enrollment were first collected through a pre-course survey. Next, course completion records were collected via…
Descriptors: Demography, Student Motivation, Predictor Variables, Online Courses
Braun, Tina; Cottrell, Richard; Dierkes, Paul – Environmental Education Research, 2018
This study employs a uniquely multi-factorial, large-scale design to investigate baseline differences and the effects of a singular outdoor educational program on environmental attitudes, knowledge and behavior among primary and secondary school students educated in four different countries. Statistical modelling approaches employed country of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Environmental Education, Comparative Analysis, Quasiexperimental Design
Bessudnov, Alexey; Guardiancich, Igor; Marimon, Ramon – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Postdoctoral programmes have recently become an important step leading from doctoral education to permanent academic careers in the social sciences. This paper investigates the effects of a large and structured postdoctoral programme in the social sciences on a number of academic and non-academic outcomes of fellows. Propensity score matching is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Study, Probability, Social Sciences
Zamarro, Gema; Anderson, Kaitlin; Steele, Jennifer; Miller, Trey – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
The purpose of this study is to study the performance of different methods (inverse probability weighting and estimation of informative bounds) to control for differential attrition by comparing the results of different methods using two datasets: an original dataset from Portland Public Schools (PPS) subject to high rates of differential…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Student Attrition, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
Rodenbusch, Stacia E.; Hernandez, Paul R.; Simmons, Sarah L.; Dolan, Erin L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
National efforts to transform undergraduate biology education call for research experiences to be an integral component of learning for all students. Course-based undergraduate research experiences, or CUREs, have been championed for engaging students in research at a scale that is not possible through apprenticeships in faculty research…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Biology, Undergraduate Students, STEM Education
Evaluating Predictors of Program Attrition among Women Mandated into Batterer Intervention Treatment
Buttell, Frederick P.; Powers, Dolores; Wong, Asia – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate pretreatment differences between treatment completers and dropouts among a large sample of women ordered into a 26-week batterer intervention program (BIP). Method: The study employed a nonequivalent, control-group design (comparing program completers to dropouts) in a secondary analysis…
Descriptors: Intervention, Females, Dropouts, Program Effectiveness
First-Generation College Student Achievement and the First-Year Seminar: A Quasi-Experimental Design
Vaughan, Angela; Parra, Janessa; Lalonde, Trent – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2014
Research has shown consistently that first-generation college students are less prepared academically for college, have a higher risk for dropping out, and are less likely to obtain a degree. This study investigated the effect of first-generation students' participation in a first-year seminar (FYS) on academic achievement and persistence to the…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, First Year Seminars, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
Connelly, Brian S.; Sackett, Paul R.; Waters, Shonna D. – Personnel Psychology, 2013
Organizational and applied sciences have long struggled with improving causal inference in quasi-experiments. We introduce organizational researchers to propensity scoring, a statistical technique that has become popular in other applied sciences as a means for improving internal validity. Propensity scoring statistically models how individuals in…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Control Groups, Inferences, Research Methodology
Frye, Bobbie Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Traditionally, modeling student retention has been done by deriving student success predictors and measuring the likelihood of success based on several background factors such as age, race, gender, and other pre-college variables, also known as the input-output model. Increasingly, however, researchers have used mediating factors of the student…
Descriptors: Scores, Two Year College Students, Academic Persistence, Developmental Studies Programs
Borman, Geoffrey D.; Park, So Jung; Min, Sookweon – Online Submission, 2015
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of Achieve3000, a differentiated online literacy curriculum, on students' scores on the California State Test (CST). In the 2011-12 school year, 1,957 students in Chula Vista began using Achieve3000's solutions in 3rd through 8th grade. Using a form of propensity score matching called Inverse…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Quasiexperimental Design, Elementary School Students
Gage, Nicholas A.; Sugai, George; Lewis, Timothy J. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
Turning around chronically low-performing schools requires a multifaceted school-wide, systematic effort that includes strong leadership and data-based decision making. School-wide efforts to turn-around low-performing schools should address the academic, social, and behavioral needs of all students. One evidence-based, systematic school-wide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Positive Behavior Supports, School Turnaround, Educational Environment
Martinez-Restrepo, Susana – ProQuest LLC, 2012
What are the socioeconomic implications of the time allocation decisions made by low-income adolescents? The way adolescents allocate their time between schooling, labor and leisure has important implications for their education attainment, college aspirations, job opportunities and future earnings. This study focuses on adolescents and young…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Pregnancy, Gender Differences, Outcomes of Education
Magidson, Jay – 1977
In evaluation research studies, it often occurs that several program participants (experimentals) drop out of the program prior to completion. Since noncompleters generally differ substantially from completers in many respects, a control group which originally was representative of the participant group will most likely not be representative of…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Career Education, Control Groups, Discriminant Analysis