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Madison, Matthew J.; Bradshaw, Laine – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2018
The evaluation of intervention effects is an important objective of educational research. One way to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention is to conduct an experiment that assigns individuals to control and treatment groups. In the context of pretest/posttest designed studies, this is referred to as a control-group pretest/posttest design.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Control Groups
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Lerner, Richard M.; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; Urban, Jennifer Brown; Zaff, Jon – Applied Developmental Science, 2016
Whether discussing the process involved in positive youth development (PYD), articulating an approach (or philosophy) of youth programs associated with PYD, or enacting a program aimed at promoting PYD, ideas derived from relational developmental systems (RDS) metatheory are pertinent. Accordingly, we discuss the RDS metamodel and explain the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Youth Programs, Social Justice, Evaluation Methods
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Ziadat, Ayed H.; AL-Awan, Mohammad Soud A. – International Education Studies, 2018
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Neurological Impress Method (NIM) on reading fluency of students with learning disabilities in Amman, Jordan. A sample of forty students (boys and girls) between the ages 10-12 years old with learning disabilities were selected from the Fourth Amman Educational Directorate in the Hashemite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Reading Fluency
Courtney, Jane; Gravelle, Maggie – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2014
This article compares the existing single-strategy approach towards the teaching of early literacy in schools in rural Cambodia with a multiple-strategy approach introduced as part of a reading intervention programme. Classroom observations, questionnaires and in-depth interviews with teachers were used to explore teachers' practices and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Programs, Intervention, Program Evaluation
McMullen, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2016
College students, on average, do not consume enough fruits and vegetables. Contributing to poor eating habits is an overall decline in young adults' cooking skills as compared to previous decades, with today's college students often relying on ubiquitous convenience food options. The detriments associated with these food choices are linked to a…
Descriptors: Nutrition, College Students, Food, Mixed Methods Research
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Smogorzewska, Joanna; Szumski, Grzegorz – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2018
This study tested whether and how methods called 'Play Time/Social Time' and 'I Can Problem Solve' contribute to the improvement of social skills and the development of theory of mind (ToM) in children. The participants in the experiment were nearly 200 (N = 196) preschool children with low social functioning, with and without disabilities. The…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Educational Methods, Preschool Children, Preschool Evaluation
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Bloom, Howard S.; Raudenbush, Stephen W.; Weiss, Michael J.; Porter, Kristin – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
The present article considers a fundamental question in evaluation research: "By how much do program effects vary across sites?" The article first presents a theoretical model of cross-site impact variation and a related estimation model with a random treatment coefficient and fixed site-specific intercepts. This approach eliminates…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Program Evaluation, Welfare Services, Employment
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O'Dwyer, Anne; Childs, Peter – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
The "Organic Chemistry in Action!" ("OCIA!") program is a set of teaching resources designed to facilitate the teaching and learning of introductory level organic chemistry. The "OCIA!" program was developed in collaboration with practicing and experienced chemistry teachers, using findings from Chemistry Education…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Science
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Davies, Susan C.; Lewis, Abigail A.; Anderson, Amy E.; Bernstein, Elana R. – School Psychology International, 2015
School psychologists often have the opportunity to work with students and families from varied backgrounds and cultures. While this can be an exciting and enriching part of the job, it can also be daunting for some practitioners, particularly those who are inadequately prepared. A number of strategies have been implemented in school psychology…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, School Psychology, Competency Based Education, Intercultural Programs
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Harvill, Eleanor L.; Peck, Laura R.; Bell, Stephen H. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
Using exogenous characteristics to identify endogenous subgroups, the approach discussed in this method note creates symmetric subsets within treatment and control groups, allowing the analysis to take advantage of an experimental design. In order to maintain treatment--control symmetry, however, prior work has posited that it is necessary to use…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Research Design, Sampling
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Leaf, Justin B.; Townley-Cochran, Donna; Mitchell, Erin; Milne, Christine; Alcalay, Aditt; Leaf, Jeremy; Leaf, Ron; Taubman, Mitch; McEachin, John; Oppenheim-Leaf, Misty L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2016
This study compared 2 methods of fading prompts while teaching tacts to 3 individuals who had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The 1st method involved use of an echoic prompt and prompt fading. The 2nd method involved providing multiple-alternative answers and fading by increasing the difficulty of the discrimination. An adapted…
Descriptors: Prompting, Cues, Program Evaluation, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Lindberg, Erik; Bohman, Håkan; Hultén, Peter – European Journal of Training and Development, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of intervention methods in an entrepreneurship education (EE) course that was designed to enhance the students' entrepreneurial mindset by targeting their opportunity identification, creativity and risk management capabilities (RMC). Design/methodology/approach: The authors formulate…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Teaching Methods
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Samia, Drissi; Amirat, Abdelkrim – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2017
In the past decades, various systems have been proposed to provide students with a better learning environment by taking personal factors into account. Learning styles have been one of the widely adopted factors in the previous studies as a reference for adapting learning content or organizing the content. However, very few researchers give an…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Cognitive Style, Teaching Methods
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Kurniawati, F.; de Boer, A. A.; Minnaert, A. E. M. G.; Mangunsong, F. – Educational Psychology, 2017
Research has consistently stressed that regular school teachers are important in determining the success of implementing inclusive education. It was also found that teachers' attitudes, their knowledge about special educational needs (SEN) and teaching strategies are prerequisites for implementing inclusive education successfully. This study…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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DaWalt, Leann Smith; Greenberg, Jan S.; Mailick, Marsha R. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Currently there are few evidence-based programs available for families of individuals with ASD during the transition to adulthood. The present study provided a preliminary evaluation of a multi-family group psychoeducation intervention using a randomized waitlist control design (n = 41). Families in the intervention condition participated in…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adolescents, Evidence Based Practice
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