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Mark Fredrickson; Ben B. Hansen – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Context: Assessments of baseline equivalency of intervention and control groups, "balance," play a critical role in evaluating educational interventions. The highest What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) of the Institute of Educational Studies (IES) standard for educational studies, "Meets WWC Design Standards Without Reservations,"…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention
Garoutte, Lisa – Teaching Sociology, 2018
Fostering a sociological imagination in students is a central goal for most introductory sociology courses and sociology departments generally, yet success is difficult to achieve. This project suggests that using elements of asset-based community development can be used in sociology classrooms to develop a sociological perspective. After…
Descriptors: Community Education, Service Learning, Experiential Learning, Outcomes of Education
Häfner, Alexander; Oberst, Verena; Stock, Armin – Educational Studies, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a short-term time management intervention on procrastination. Procrastination is a serious issue for many students and associated with different negative consequences, such as anxiety or low grades. As procrastination is described as a self-regulatory failure, a training programme focussing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Time Management, Intervention, Self Control
Farahat, Amal Hussain; Mohamed, Hanan El Sayed; Elkader, Shadia Abd; El-Nemer, Amina – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Childbirth satisfaction represents a sense of feeling good about one's birth. It is thought to result from having a sense of control, having expectations met, feeling empowered, confident and supported. The aim of this study was to implement a birth plan and evaluate its effect on women's childbirth experiences and maternal, neonatal outcomes. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Birth, Quasiexperimental Design
Abaspour, Nafiseh; Nowrozi, Reza Ali; Latifi, Zohreh – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of educating philosophy curriculum in the children on the spiritual development of female students with 12-14 years old in the city of Isfahan. The present study is a semi-experiment research. The research design is pretest-posttest research with experiment and control group. In order to select…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Pretests Posttests, Control Groups
Aydin, Mensure – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The purpose of the study is to explore the impact of chess instruction for visually impaired children on math achievement. The study group consists of a total of 26 visually impaired students from inclusion classes in inclusive secondary schools of MoNE (Ministry of National Education), 9 male and 5 female students in the experiment group and 8…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Visual Impairments, Secondary School Students
Özcan, Zeynep Çigdem; Erktin, Emine – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
Metacognitive enrichment has become an important component of modern mathematics instruction. This study investigates the effect of homework assignments enriched with metacognitive questions on students' mathematics achievement and homework behaviors. A quasi-experimental design with pre- and post-test measures and two groups (experimental and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Students, Homework
Penner, Emily K. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
This article examines the effect of Teach For America (TFA) on the distribution of student achievement in elementary school. It extends previous research by estimating quantile treatment effects (QTE) to examine how student achievement in TFA and non-TFA classrooms differs across the broader distribution of student achievement. It also updates…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness
Inan, Cemil – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Probably the simplest and most comprehensive definition to be made regarding the question of "what is mathematics?" will be that "mathematics is a science of patterns and relationships". It is possible to examine patterns in different levels of difficulty and importance from preschool period to advanced levels. In fact, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education, Statistical Distributions
Rajabi, Bahar; Hashemian, Mahmood – English Language Teaching, 2015
Resumptive pronouns (RPs) are one of the most challenging grammatical points for EFL learners because this structure is different in their L1. We aimed to examine whether blended learning/TBLT are useful to teach RPs. We examined the extent to which such methods improve performance on the posttest. Forty learners took part in the study who were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Young Adults, English (Second Language)
Swanson, Elizabeth; Wanzek, Jeanne; Vaughn, Sharon; Roberts, Greg; Fall, Ana-Mari – Exceptional Children, 2015
This study aimed to determine the efficacy of a content knowledge and reading comprehension treatment implemented by eighth-grade general education social studies teachers among students with disabilities included in the classes. Data on students with disabilities across 2 years of study were combined for the analysis presented here. Students in…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Middle School Students, Social Studies, Knowledge Level
Bilgin, Ibrahim; Karakuyu, Yunus; Ay, Yusuf – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the Project-Based Learning (PBL) method on undergraduate students' achievement and its association with these students' self-efficacy beliefs about science teaching and pinions about PBL. The sample of the study consisted of two randomly chosen classes from a set of seven classes enrolled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Student Projects, Undergraduate Students
Ramsay, Crystal M.; Sperling, Rayne A. – Journal of Educational Research, 2015
In 2 experiments the authors investigated whether assigning a perspective to middle school students prior to reading a long informational text would improve their reading comprehension. Pretest-posttest control group designs were employed in both experiments, in Experiment 1 (n = 146 fifth- and sixth-grade students) and in Experiment 2 (n = 83…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Pretests Posttests, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Abdi, Ali – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of inquiry-based learning method on students' academic achievement in sciences lesson. A total of 40 fifth grade students from two different classes were involved in the study. They were selected through purposive sampling method. The group which was assigned as experimental group was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Academic Achievement, Inquiry
Williams, Joseph J.; Griffiths, Thomas L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Errors in detecting randomness are often explained in terms of biases and misconceptions. We propose and provide evidence for an account that characterizes the contribution of the inherent statistical difficulty of the task. Our account is based on a Bayesian statistical analysis, focusing on the fact that a random process is a special case of…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Bias, Misconceptions, Statistical Analysis