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Jacob, Robin; Armstrong, Catherine; Bowden, A. Brooks; Pan, Yilin – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
This study evaluates the impacts and costs of the Reading Partners program, which uses community volunteers to provide one-on-one tutoring to struggling readers in under-resourced elementary schools. The evaluation uses an experimental design. Students were randomly assigned within 19 different Reading Partners sites to a program or control…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Tutorial Programs, Randomized Controlled Trials, Tutors
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Hailey, Emily; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Azano, Amy; Moon, Tonya R. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2012
Reliability and validity are integral concepts in assessment design. Test speededness, the influence of time constraints on test taker performance, is often an overlooked threat to reliability and validity, especially in classroom-based testing. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the degree of test speededness of classroom-based assessments…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Student Evaluation, Validity, Grade 3
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Cibik, Ayse Sert; Diken, Emine Hatun; Darcin, Emine Selcen – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2008
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the use of group works and demonstration experiments based on conceptual change approach in the elimination of misconception about the subject of photosynthesis and respiration in plants in pre-service science teachers. This study was conducted with 78 pre-service science teachers including…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Schools of Education, Science Laboratories