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Download full textCalifornia Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2022
The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office is pleased to present the 2021 Report on Course Section Offerings and Plans for Future Instruction for California Community Colleges. Pursuant to Senate Bill 129 (Skinner, 2021), California community college districts are required to report on the total number of course sections offered, broken…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Centered Learning, Course Selection (Students), Futures (of Society)
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Direct linkShadish, William R.; Galindo, Rodolfo; Wong, Vivian C.; Steiner, Peter M.; Cook, Thomas D. – Psychological Methods, 2011
In this article, we review past studies comparing randomized experiments to regression discontinuity designs, mostly finding similar results, but with significant exceptions. The latter might be due to potential confounds of study characteristics with assignment method or with failure to estimate the same parameter over methods. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Experiments, Comparative Analysis, Nonparametric Statistics
Saying "that" in Dialogue: The Influence of Accessibility and Social Factors on Syntactic Production
Ferreira, Victor S.; Hudson, Melanie – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
Previous evidence suggests that when speakers produce sentences from memory or as picture descriptions, their choices of sentence structure are influenced by how easy it is to retrieve sentence material (accessibility). Three experiments assessed whether this pattern holds in naturalistic, interactive dialogue. Pairs of speakers took turns asking…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Memory, Social Influences
Kornell, Nate; Hays, Matthew Jensen; Bjork, Robert A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2009
Taking tests enhances learning. But what happens when one cannot answer a test question--does an unsuccessful retrieval attempt impede future learning or enhance it? The authors examined this question using materials that ensured that retrieval attempts would be unsuccessful. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants were asked fictional…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Recall (Psychology), Cues, Memory
Moorthy, Savitha; Sanchez, Raquel; Tseng, Fannie – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The objective of this paper is to provide some practical insight into the process of implementing large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCT) in educational settings and to provide general recommendations for researchers conducting education-based RCTs in the future. The authors draw their recommendations from their recent experiences…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Science Experiments, Research Design, Educational Research
Reichardt, Robert – 2001
This policy brief draws on research and evaluations of efforts in Tennessee, California, and Wisconsin to describe different approaches to reducing class size in kindergarten through third grade. Tennessee implemented a randomized experiment to investigate the effectiveness of smaller classes; California used a statewide approach; and Wisconsin…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Educational Assessment, Educational Experiments
