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Jona Lilienthal; Sibylle Sturtz; Christoph Schürmann; Matthias Maiworm; Christian Röver; Tim Friede; Ralf Bender – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
In Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis, the use of weakly informative prior distributions is of particular benefit in cases where only a few studies are included, a situation often encountered in health technology assessment (HTA). Suggestions for empirical prior distributions are available in the literature but it is unknown whether these are…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Meta Analysis, Health Sciences, Technology
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Jhong Yun Kim; Andrew Keane – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2024
Despite stakeholders' desire for organizations to participate in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, some organizations do not invest in CSR due to uncertainty around the value it provides to performance. This research investigates the effect size of the relationship between CSR and performance via a meta-analysis of 17 articles. A…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Corporations, Job Performance, Work Environment
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Martin Brunner; Sophie E. Stallasch; Oliver Lüdtke – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
To assess the meaningfulness of an intervention effect on students' achievement, researchers may apply empirical benchmarks as standards for comparisons, involving normative expectations for students' academic growth as well as performance gaps between weak and average schools or policy-relevant groups (e.g., male and female students, students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Meta Analysis, Benchmarking, Intervention
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Vizcaíno, Diego; Vargas, Victor; Huertas, Adriana – Mathematics Teaching Research Journal, 2023
In this work, a bibliometric analysis of the investigations of the last 54 years focused on the teaching of topology and its applications in the learning of other areas of knowledge was carried out. The articles that appear in the SCOPUS database were taken into account under the search criteria of the words topology and teaching, connected with…
Descriptors: Topology, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Bormann, Inka; Nikel, Jutta – International Review of Education, 2017
The United Nations (UN) Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) aimed to integrate the principles, values and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning around the world. The authors of this article address the implementation process of ESD in Germany during the UN Decade (2005-2014). By…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Governance, Foreign Countries
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Kakos, Michalis; Fritzsche, Bettina – Ethnography and Education, 2017
This paper reflects upon our experience gained from engagement in a meta-ethnography of two studies on interactions between teachers and students in schools situated in England and Germany. Starting with a short overview of Noblit and Hare's (1988) conceptualisation of the method, the paper outlines the meta-ethnography we undertook especially…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Meta Analysis, Teacher Student Relationship, Reflection
Pellegrini, Marta; Lake, Cynthia; Neitzel, Amanda; Slavin, Robert E. – Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2020
This article reviews research on the achievement outcomes of elementary mathematics programs. 85 rigorous experimental studies evaluated 64 programs in grades K-5. Programs were organized in 6 categories. Particularly positive outcomes were found for tutoring programs. Positive outcomes were seen in studies focused on professional development for…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Tutoring
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Zha, Shenghua; Estes, Michele D.; Xu, Ling – Journal of Peer Learning, 2019
This meta-analytic study compared the effect of peer-led learning versus non peer-led learning on students' cognitive achievement in post-secondary education. Twenty-eight studies published in English from six countries between 1993 and 2017 were identified and used in the analysis. Result of the analysis on the random-effect model showed a…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Peer Teaching, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis
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Meter, Diana J.; Card, Noel A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2016
Decades of research has assessed the benefits of children's and adolescents' friendships, but friendships among youth often dissolve within a matter of months or years. Studies have investigated predictors and consequences of friendship stability with the expectation that, in order for friendships to have a positive or negative influence on youth,…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Friendship, Meta Analysis
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Merker, Sören; Reif, Andreas; Ziegler, Georg C.; Weber, Heike; Mayer, Ute; Ehlis, Ann-Christine; Conzelmann, Annette; Johansson, Stefan; Müller-Reible, Clemens; Nanda, Indrajit; Haaf, Thomas; Ullmann, Reinhard; Romanos, Marcel; Fallgatter, Andreas J.; Pauli, Paul; Strekalova, Tatyana; Jansch, Charline; Vasquez, Alejandro Arias; Haavik, Jan; Ribasés, Marta; Ramos-Quiroga, Josep Antoni; Buitelaar, Jan K.; Franke, Barbara; Lesch, Klaus-Peter – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common, highly heritable neurodevelopmental disorder with profound cognitive, behavioral, and psychosocial impairments with persistence across the life cycle. Our initial genome-wide screening approach for copy number variants (CNVs) in ADHD implicated a duplication of…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Neurological Impairments, Genetic Disorders, Physiology
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Malouff, John M.; Thorsteinsson, Einar B. – Australian Journal of Education, 2016
This article provides a meta-analysis of experimental research findings on the existence of bias in subjective grading of student work such as essay writing. Twenty-three analyses, from 20 studies, with a total of 1935 graders, met the inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis. All studies involved graders being exposed to a specific type of…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Meta Analysis, Educational Research, Grading
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Burth, Hans-Peter – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2016
Service-Learning programs at school and at university level are commonly considered as reliable instruments to increase civic engagement. In the last years, within Service-Learning Research a new paradigm arose understanding itself as non-foundational and critical. This study differentiates this critical perspective by offering a secondary…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Citizen Participation, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Meyer, Frauke; Meissel, Kane; McNaughton, Stuart – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
The "summer learning effect" (SLE) is described as a stall or drop in achievement over summer, especially in schools serving poor or "minority" communities. There has been little research in Europe on the effect, and research internationally has primarily focused on the effect in reading, with minimal focus on writing. This…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Reading Comprehension
Barata, Clara – OECD Publishing, 2018
The first years of life lay the foundations for a child's future development and learning. Many countries have increased their financial support for provision of early childhood education and care (ECEC) over the past years. More recently, the focus of debate has been shifting from expanding access to affordable ECEC to enhancing its quality. A…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis
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Richter, Juliane; Scheiter, Katharina; Eitel, Alexander – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Multimedia integration signals highlight correspondences between text and pictures with the aim of supporting learning from multimedia. A recent meta-analysis revealed that only learners with low domain-specific prior knowledge benefit from multimedia integration signals. To more thoroughly investigate the influence of prior knowledge on the…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Prior Learning, Quasiexperimental Design, Textbooks
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