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Joshua Weidlich; Ben Hicks; Hendrik Drachsler – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Researchers tasked with understanding the effects of educational technology innovations face the challenge of providing evidence of causality. Given the complexities of studying learning in authentic contexts interwoven with technological affordances, conducting tightly-controlled randomized experiments is not always feasible nor desirable. Today,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Technology, Research Design, Structural Equation Models
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Suleman, Qaiser; Hussain, Ishtiaq – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The purpose of the research paper was to investigate the effect of eclectic learning approach on the academic achievement and retention of students in English at elementary level. A sample of forty students of 8th grade randomly selected from Government Boys High School Khurram District Karak was used. It was an experimental study and that's why…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Academic Achievement, School Holding Power, Pretests Posttests
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Larwin, Karen H.; Larwin, David A. – Journal of Education for Business, 2011
Bootstrapping methods and random distribution methods are increasingly recommended as better approaches for teaching students about statistical inference in introductory-level statistics courses. The authors examined the effect of teaching undergraduate business statistics students using random distribution and bootstrapping simulations. It is the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Research Design, Grade Point Average
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Alacaci, Cengiz – Journal of Statistics Education, 2004
This study investigated the knowledge base necessary for choosing appropriate statistical techniques in applied research. In this study, we compared knowledge used by six experts and six novices in two types of statistical tasks. The tasks were: 1) comparing research scenarios from the perspective of choosing a statistical technique, and 2) direct…
Descriptors: Statistics, Statistical Inference, Expertise, Comparative Analysis
Rogan, Robert Patrick – Online Submission, 2006
Democratic education is a learning approach that encourages and respects the voices of students. Unfortunately, much of the research on student empowerment and democratic education utilizes antiquated techniques that are researcher driven and disempowering to the objects of their study, the children. The current research incorporated a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Research Design, Student Empowerment, Projective Measures