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Blomberg, Grace Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative study investigated how third-grade students from low-income families talked about target vocabulary words when asked to create a "VoiceThread" publication. "VoiceThread" is a web-based publication tool that allows students to post pictures and attach voice-recordings to each picture. There were three student…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
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Dunst, Carl J.; Hamby, Deborah W. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2012
This paper includes a nontechnical description of methods for calculating effect sizes in intellectual and developmental disability studies. Different hypothetical studies are used to illustrate how null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) and effect size findings can result in quite different outcomes and therefore conflicting results. Whereas…
Descriptors: Intervals, Developmental Disabilities, Statistical Significance, Effect Size
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Helmer, Janet; Bartlett, Claire; Wolgemuth, Jennifer R.; Lea, Tess – Professional Development in Education, 2011
This research conducted in primary schools in Northern Australia evaluated the effectiveness of the web-based program ABRACADABRA (ABRA) as a tool to complement early childhood literacy instruction in an Australian and Indigenous context. A further component of this research was to monitor implementation fidelity. The ABRA training was built…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Researchers
Haystead, Mark W.; Marzano, Robert J. – Marzano Research Laboratory, 2009
This is a summary of 300 plus studies from Marzano Research Laboratory (MRL) on instructional strategies. This report synthesizes a series of action research projects conducted between the fall of 2004 and the spring of 2009. The data used for analysis can be found in MRL's Action Research Meta-Analysis Database. Appended are: (1) Instructions for…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Action Research, Teaching Methods, Statistical Analysis