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Chatchanan Yathip; Aphiwit Liang-Itsara – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
The Question-Answer-Relationship (QAR) strategy has been suggested to improve EFL students' reading comprehension. Nonetheless, disappointing outcomes when using the QAR instruction were noted. The current study seeks to: (1) add the Review (R) component to the instruction; and (2) assess the effectiveness of the developed…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Nielson, Perpetua Lynne; Bean, Nathan William Bean; Larsen, Ross Allen Andrew – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2018
We examine the impact of a flipped classroom model of learning on student performance and satisfaction in a large undergraduate introductory statistics class. Two professors each taught a lecture-section and a flipped-class section. Using MANCOVA, a linear combination of final exam scores, average quiz scores, and course ratings was compared for…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Homework, Video Technology
Johnson, Matthew; Johnson, Cleo Jacobs; Richman, Scott; Demers, Alicia; Gentile, Claudia; Lindquist, Eric – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2016
The Kauffman School is a public charter school that serves students from low-income neighborhoods in Kansas City, Missouri. This paper used a matched comparison group design to estimate the impacts of the Kauffman School on student achievement, attendance, and suspensions. We found that the Kauffman School had positive and statistically…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Low Income Groups, Comparative Analysis
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Frederick, Michelle L.; Courtney, Scott; Caniglia, Joanne – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2014
The purpose of this study was to explore middle grade mathematics students' uses of scaffolding and its effectiveness in helping students solve non-routine problems. Students were given two different types of scaffolds to support their learning of sixth grade geometry concepts. First, students solved a math task by using a four square graphic…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
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Lai, Mei Kuin; Wilson, Aaron; McNaughton, Stuart; Hsiao, Selena – Reading Research Quarterly, 2014
This paper examines whether a literacy intervention involving generic and content area literacy components can improve both achievement on a standardized reading test and the attainment of secondary school qualifications, and whether the intervention can be implemented by teachers in their regular classroom settings. We report on a design-based…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Intervention, Literacy Education, Standardized Tests
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Weaver, Gabriela C.; SturtevantHannah G. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2015
Research has consistently shown that active problem-solving in a collaborative environment supports more effective learning than the traditional lecture approach. In this study, a flipped classroom format was implemented and evaluated in the chemistry majors' sequence at Purdue University over a period of three years. What was formerly lecture…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Implementation, Course Evaluation
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Else-Quest, Nicole M.; Peterca, Oana – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
Publicly funded single-sex schooling (SSS) has proliferated in recent years and is touted as a remedy to gaps in academic attitudes and achievement, particularly for low-income students of color. Research on SSS is rife with limitations, stemming from selective admissions processes, selection effects related to socioeconomic status, a lack of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Student Attitudes, High School Students, Academic Achievement
Pope, S.; Galle, A. – National Literacy Trust, 2014
In 2012, Oxfordshire County Council commissioned the National Literacy Trust to deliver a two-year campaign, the Oxfordshire Reading Campaign, to address falling Key Stage 1 literacy levels in the county's primary schools, which were amongst the worst in the country. The aims of the campaign were to increase the proportion of children reaching the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Programs, Elementary School Students, Reading Skills
Woods, Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quasi-experimental study was designed to research the effects of student attitudes and achievement levels when introduced to learning-style based interventions through the use of homework prescriptions. Success of these interventions was measured through the comparison of test scores for students who received instruction through…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Student Attitudes, Homework, Scores
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Hanley, Pam; Slavin, Robert; Elliott, Louise – Education Endowment Foundation, 2015
Thinking, Doing, Talking Science (TDTS) is a programme that aims to make science lessons in primary schools more practical, creative and challenging. Teachers are trained in a repertoire of strategies that aim to encourage pupils to use higher order thinking skills. For example, pupils are posed 'Big Questions,' such as 'How do you know that the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills
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Warren, Scott J.; Dondlinger, Mary Jo; Jones, Greg; Whitworth, Cliff – Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to discuss one instructional design that leverages problem-based learning and game structures as a means of developing innovative higher education courses for students as responsive, lived experiences. This paper reviews a curricular redesign that stemmed from the evaluation of an introductory course in computer…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Instructional Design, Educational Games, Introductory Courses
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Zheng, Binbin; Warschauer, Mark; Hwang, Jin Kyoung; Collins, Penelope – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2014
This year-long, quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of the use of netbook computers and interactive science software on fifth-grade students' science learning processes, academic achievement, and interest in further science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) study within a linguistically diverse school district in…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Grade 5, Elementary School Science, Science Instruction
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Beltramo, Jennifer A. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2012
Nearly 90% of intermediate and middle school students from low-income families in the United States are not proficient in reading. This action research project used a quasi-experimental design to determine the effectiveness of a multi-component reading intervention program for students in grades four through eight at Mother of Sorrows Catholic…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Quasiexperimental Design, Catholic Schools, Intervention
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Biagi, Federico; Loi, Massimo – European Journal of Education, 2013
Based on PISA 2009 data, this article studies the relationship between students' computer use and their achievement in reading, mathematics and science in 23 countries. After having categorised computer use into a set of different activities according to the skills they involve, we correlate students' PISA test-scores with an index capturing the…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Achievement Rating, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Shoemaker, Traci L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quasi-experimental non-equivalent control group study was to test theories of constructivism and motivation, along with research-based teaching practices of differentiating instruction and instructing within a child's Zone of Proximal Development, in measuring the effect of computer-aided instruction on fifth grade students'…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Quasiexperimental Design, Constructivism (Learning)
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