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Bruno Arpino; Silvia Bacci; Leonardo Grilli; Raffaele Guetto; Carla Rampichini – Evaluation Review, 2025
We consider estimating the effect of a treatment on a given outcome measured on subjects tested both before and after treatment assignment in observational studies. A vast literature compares the competing approaches of modelling the post-test score conditionally on the pre-test score versus modelling the difference, namely, the gain score. Our…
Descriptors: Scores, Pretesting, Conditioning, Achievement Gains
Fatih Unlu; Douglas Lee Lauen; Sarah Crittenden Fuller; Tiffany Berglund; Elc Estrera – Grantee Submission, 2021
Do quasi-experimental (QE) studies conducted with baseline covariates that are typically available in the longitudinal administrative state databases yield unbiased effect estimates? This paper conducts a within-study comparison (WSC) study that compares experimental impacts of early college high school (ECHS) attendance with QE impacts drawn from…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Longitudinal Studies, Databases, Statistical Bias
Fatih Unlu; Douglas Lee Lauen; Sarah Crittenden Fuller; Tiffany Berglund; Elc Estrera – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2021
Do quasi-experimental (QE) studies conducted with baseline covariates that are typically available in the longitudinal administrative state databases yield unbiased effect estimates? This paper conducts a within-study comparison (WSC) study that compares experimental impacts of early college high school (ECHS) attendance with QE impacts drawn from…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Longitudinal Studies, Databases, Statistical Bias
Kim, Sooyeon; Robin, Frederic – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
In this study, we examined the potential impact of item misfit on the reported scores of an admission test from the subpopulation invariance perspective. The target population of the test consisted of 3 major subgroups with different geographic regions. We used the logistic regression function to estimate item parameters of the operational items…
Descriptors: Scores, Test Items, Test Bias, International Assessment
Goodwin, Amanda P. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
This study explores the effectiveness of integrating morphological instruction within comprehension strategy instruction. Participants were 203 students (N = 117 fifth-grade; 86 sixth-grade) from four urban schools who were randomly assigned to the intervention (N = 110; morphological problem-solving within comprehension strategy instruction) or…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Erhel, Séverine; Jamet, Eric – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Few studies have investigated the effects of the instructions provided in educational computer games on cognitive processing and learning outcomes. In our experiment, we sought to compare the effects on learning outcomes of two different types of goal-oriented instructions: "mastery-goal" instructions, which prompt learners to develop…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Goal Orientation, Instruction, Video Games
Ricks, Travis Rex; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Problem Solving, 2014
Does having more knowledge or interest in the topics used in example problems facilitate or hinder learning in statistics? Undergraduates enrolled in Introductory Psychology received a lesson on central tendency. Following the lesson, half of the students completed a worksheet with a baseball cover story while the other half received a weather…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Undergraduate Students, Statistics, Psychology
Swab, A. Geoffrey – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study of cooperative learning in post-secondary engineering education investigated achievement of engineering students enrolled in two intact sections of a computer-aided drafting (CAD) course. Quasi-experimental and qualitative methods were employed in comparing student achievement resulting from out-of-class cooperative and individualistic…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Postsecondary Education, Cooperative Learning, Academic Achievement
Berry, Thomas – American Journal of Business Education, 2008
Pre-tests are a non-graded assessment tool used to determine pre-existing subject knowledge. Typically pre-tests are administered prior to a course to determine knowledge baseline, but here they are used to test students prior to topical material coverage throughout the course. While counterintuitive, the pre-tests cover material the student is…
Descriptors: Pretesting, Prior Learning, Student Motivation, Money Management
Williams, John D.; And Others – 1972
Two methods of reading instruction (homogeneous grouping and graded classes) are compared for 165 students in 8 rural North Dakota schools by raw gain scores, residual gain scores, and the analysis of covariance. (CK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Classes (Groups of Students), Comparative Analysis, Correlation