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Direct linkGlynn, Adam N.; Ichino, Nahomi – Sociological Methods & Research, 2016
We delineate the underlying homogeneity assumption, procedural variants, and implications of the comparative method and distinguish this from Mill's method of difference. We demonstrate that additional units can provide "placebo" tests for the comparative method even if the scope of inference is limited to the two units under comparison.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Research Methodology, Causal Models, Inferences
Fives, Allyn; Russell, Daniel W.; Canavan, John; Lyons, Rena; Eaton, Patricia; Devaney, Carmel; Kearns, Norean; O'Brien, Aoife – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2015
In a randomized controlled trial (RCT), treatments are assigned randomly and treatments are withheld from participants. Is it ethically permissible to conduct an RCT in a social setting? This paper addresses two conditions for justifying RCTs: that there should be a state of equipoise and that the trial should be scientifically promising.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Research Methodology, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Chapman, James W.; Tunmer, William E. – Reading Psychology, 2016
The recently reported i3 Scale-Up of Reading Recovery (May et al., 2015) found an effect size of +0.69 in favor of Reading Recovery compared to the control group. We discuss four issues: (a) many of the lowest achieving students were excluded from participation in Reading Recovery; (b) the control group received a range of different experiences;…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Early Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Program Effectiveness
Athayde, Rosemary – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to present evidence on the impact of enterprise education on young people still at school in London, UK. The study was designed to measure the effect of participation in a Young Enterprise (YE) Company Program on young people's attitudes toward starting a business, and on their enterprise potential.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Entrepreneurship, Outcomes of Education
Download full textChurches, Richard; McAleavy, Tony – CfBT Education Trust, 2015
This publication contains 12 (A3 open-out) poster-style reports of teacher experimental research. The style of presentation parallels the type of preliminary reporting common at academic conferences and postgraduate events. At the same time, it aims to act as a form of short primer to introduce teachers to the basic options that there are when…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Randomized Controlled Trials, Teacher Researchers, Foreign Countries
Dempster, Harriet L.; Roberts, Jacquie – Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1991
An evaluation of one therapeutic service offered to sexually abused children in the United Kingdom exposed the methodological issue of false negatives among the comparison group, suggesting that researchers cannot assume that nonreferred comparison subjects have not actually experienced sexual abuse. (DB)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Control Groups, Foreign Countries, Intervention
Peer reviewedHooper, Richard – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1990
This discussion of educational technology and the role of computers is based on the author's experiences with the United Kingdom's National Development Programme in Computer Assisted Learning (NDPCAL). Highlights include curriculum development; teachers' roles; research and development; evaluation; control group experiments; instructional…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Assisted Instruction, Control Groups, Curriculum Development
