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Fyfe, Emily R.; DeCaro, Marci S.; Rittle-Johnson, Bethany – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
An emerging consensus suggests that guided discovery, which combines discovery and instruction, is a more effective educational approach than either one in isolation. The goal of this study was to examine two specific forms of guided discovery, testing whether conceptual instruction should precede or follow exploratory problem solving. In both…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Prior Learning, Mathematical Concepts, Pretests Posttests
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Konstantopoulos, Spyros – Elementary School Journal, 2009
The study reported in this article investigated the differential effects of teachers on female, minority, and low-socioeconomic-status (SES) students' achievement. I used data from a 4-year, large-scale, randomized experiment (Project STAR) that was conducted between 1985 and 1989 in Tennessee, in which students and teachers were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Disadvantaged Youth