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Peer reviewedStratford, R. J. – Educational Research, 1972
This paper is concerned with a group of immature ESN school leavers specially selected for a course of work preparation at the Cliffdale Industrial Training Unit in Portsmouth. (Author)
Descriptors: Control Groups, Data Analysis, Industrial Training, Personality Assessment
Peer reviewedSilleroy, Rene S.; Johnson, Peder J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
The effects of perceptual pretraining on preferences and concept identification performance in five- and eight-year-old Ss were investigated.
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Child Psychology, Concept Formation
Download full textDolly, John P.; And Others – 1977
An attempt was made to see what effect implementation of ethical guidelines would have on cognitive and affective data collected in a classroom setting. A total of 126 graduate and 90 undergraduate male and female subjects were assigned randomly to six treatment groups. The six groups were provided different levels of information on a continuum…
Descriptors: Bias, Cognitive Measurement, Control Groups, Data Analysis
Fogliatto, Hermelinda M. – 1963
In this research on individual differences in thought processes, the primary interest was to study the process followed by the subject in order to reach the solution of the problem. For this purpose, the performance of 38 experimental subjects was studied throughout 24 problems of the training sessions. The methods used were group norms, length of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups
Peer reviewedThal, Donna J.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1995
Toddlers in the lowest 10th percentile for lexical production were compared with age- and language-matched controls on measures of phonetic complexity, lexical development, and grammatical complexity. Results indicate an overlap between phonology, lexicon, and grammar and suggest the importance of true consonant production for lexical development.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Control Groups, Data Analysis
Nolan, Nelda M.; Gross, John G. – 1972
The report evaluates the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) in Missouri by comparing the dietary adequacy and nutrition knowledge of 200 program families representative of urban, small town and rural areas with that of 200 similarly representative non-program families. Data were gathered by personal interviews taken in March,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Data Analysis, Demography
SCHWAGER, SIDNEY – 1967
IN THIS REPORT THE UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS (UFT) ANALYZES SPECIFIC DATA FROM THE CENTER FOR URBAN EDUCATION'S (CUE) NEGATIVE EVALUATION OF NEW YORK CITY'S MORE EFFECTIVE SCHOOLS (MES) PROGRAM AND CHARGES THAT CUE'S CONCLUSIONS ARE INVALID. THE UFT MAINTAINS THAT SINCE 18 OF THE 21 MES WERE FORMER SPECIAL SERVICE (SS) SCHOOLS, CUE SHOULD HAVE…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Arithmetic, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups
Peer reviewedFischer, Ute – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Investigated the independent and interactive effects of contextual and definitional information on vocabulary learning. German students of English received either a text with unfamiliar English words or their monolingual English dictionary entries. A third group received both. Information about word context is crucial to understanding meaning. (44…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Control Groups, Data Analysis, Definitions
Peer reviewedProphet, Bob; Dow, Peter – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1994
Examines, through an interview technique based on models and pictures, the impact of the language of instruction on concept development in Form One and Form Three science students. Analysis of the data collected suggests that the language of instruction significantly affects concept attainment for Form One students, but not for Form Three,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Concept Formation, Control Groups, Curriculum Development
Burghardt, John; McConnell, Sheena; Meckstroth, Alicia; Schochet, Peter; Johnson, Terry; Homrighausen, John – 1999
The National Job Corps Study was conducted in 1994-1996 to provide a thorough and rigorous assessment of the impacts of the Job Corps on key participant outcomes. To ensure that the study was well implemented, a study team from Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., (MPR) investigated outcome and admission (OA) procedures in each Job Corps region and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Career Education, Community Relations, Comparative Analysis
