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Hill, David; Lachelier, Paul – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
American colleges and universities have an expanding role to play in nurturing political engagement as more youth attend college. Given low voter turnout among college students yet growing experimental evidence that face-to-face mobilization can boost turnout, the experiment reported in this article examined the impact of a face-to-face college…
Descriptors: Voting, Elections, Student Motivation, Activism
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Joyce, Ted; Remler, Dahlia K.; Jaeger, David A.; Altindag, Onur; O'Connell, Stephen D.; Crockett, Sean – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2017
Randomized experiments provide unbiased estimates of treatment effects, but are costly and time consuming. We demonstrate how a randomized experiment can be leveraged to measure selection bias by conducting a subsequent observational study that is identical in every way except that subjects choose their treatment--a quasi-doubly randomized…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Quasiexperimental Design, Selection Criteria, Selection Tools
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Iman, Jaya Nur – Online Submission, 2017
This research was conducted to find out whether or not using short stories significantly improve the speaking and writing achievements. A quasi-experimental study of non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design or comparison group design was used in this research. The population of this research was the all first semester undergraduate…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Literary Genres, Pretests Posttests, Control Groups
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Afurobi, Ada; Izuagba, Angela; Obiefuna, Carol; Ifegbo, Perpetua – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study sought to determine the effects of the use of Wordle and lecture method in teaching Curriculum Studies 1 EDU: 222 on students' performance. 100 students were purposively selected and to ensure homogeneity and consistency, the WRub was given to the 100 students and they were then grouped based on their performance--above average, average…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lecture Method, Word Frequency, Internet
Sadiq, Irfan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present state of physics teaching and learning is a reflection of the difficulty of the subject matter which has resulted in students' low motivation toward physics as well as lack of meaningful and deeper learning experiences. In light of an overall decline in interest in physics, an investigation of alternate teaching and learning methods…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Pretests Posttests, Physics, Motivation