Higher education is facing world-wide a number of problems such as: adjusting to larger and more homogeneous student populations, increasing the number of graduating students, and preparing them for lifelong learning. Enhancing students' learning proficiency can make a substantial contribution to solving each of these major concerns. Taking the…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Total Physical Response by Storytelling and the traditional teaching method on a foreign language in a selected high school. The sample consisted of 30 students who were randomly selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control group. The experimental group was taught using Total…

This study duplicated the procedures used by Greene and Winters (2006) on data from the Miami-Dade school system with the advantage of an additional two year's worth of information. The results indicated that the effects of the retention policy are far from clear and arguably negative. There is considerable evidence to suggest that the apparent…

Arabic Literacy acquisition was studied among Israeli Palestinian low socioeconomic status kindergartners within the framework of an intervention study, implemented by teachers. On pretest, letter naming, alphabetic awareness, and phonological awareness were very low. Whereas the comparison group hardly progressed throughout the year, the…

Judge-mediated examinations are defined as those for which expert evaluation (using rubrics) is required to determine correctness, completeness, and reasonability of test-taker responses. The use of multifaceted Rasch modeling has led to improvements in the reliability of scoring such examinations. The establishment of criterion-referenced…

Although the benefits of autonomy supportive behaviours are now well established in the literature, very few studies have attempted to train teachers to offer a greater autonomy support to their students. In fact, none of these studies has been carried out in physical education (PE). The purpose of this study is to test the effects of an…

This study examined the effect of a mother-baby intervention on the quality of mother-child interaction, infant-mother attachment security, and infant socioemotional functioning in a group of depressed mothers with infants aged 1-12 months. A randomized controlled trial compared an experimental group (n = 35) receiving the intervention (8-10 home…

A randomized-trials design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of a preschool mathematics program based on a comprehensive model of research-based curricula development. Thirty-six preschool classrooms were assigned to experimental (Building Blocks), comparison (a different preschool mathematics curriculum), or control conditions. Children were…

TO STUDY THE EXACT DISTRIBUTIONAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SMALL, RELATED-SAMPLE PERCENTAGES AND THE ACCURACY OF LARGE-SAMPLE TESTS, SOME SIX HUNDRED SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS WERE CONSTRUCTED BY RANDOMIZATION. EXACT PROBABILITY FIGURES IN THE .204-.005 RANGE WERE TABULATED. THE TABLE OF SIGNIFICANCE VALUES EXTENDS TO SAMPLES YIELDING MATRICES VARYING IN…

Discusses the problem of assigning subjects to one of several treatments based on their test scores. The success of each treatment is measured by different criterion. (RB)

The difference between the success rates in two treatment groups is related to the treatment-outcome correlation and the overall success rate. A new measure of effect size is proposed, which is easily calculated and interpretable in terms of the ratio of success rates in the treatment groups. (Author/BW)

This study dealt with the nature of experimental control and the types and consequences of its errors or compromises in executing an experimental design for research on counseling or therapy. (Author)

Reports a study designed to measure the usefulness of directed reading in which questions to be answered are presented to the children before the reading selections. Value of directed reading is questioned. (DR)

Results of a study designed to determine whether the activation of one of the bilingual's language systems makes the other system inoperative. (Author/FWB)