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Skidmore, Susan – Online Submission, 2008
Experimental designs are distinguished as the best method to respond to questions involving causality. The purpose of the present paper is to explicate the logic of experimental design and why it is so vital to questions that demand causal conclusions. In addition, types of internal and external validity threats are discussed. To emphasize the…
Descriptors: Research Design, Validity, Causal Models, Research Methodology
Ahrens, Andreas; Zascerinska, Jelena – Online Submission, 2010
Contemporary engineers need to become more cognizant and more responsive to the emerging needs of the market for engineering and technology services. Social dimension of Web 2.0 which penetrates our society more thoroughly with the availability of broadband services has the potential to contribute decisively to the sustainable development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Engineering, Telecommunications
Davis, Wes; Mahoney, Kelley – Online Submission, 2005
This experimental, statistical study investigated the effects that the testing of grammar and writing mechanics would have on the overall quality and reduction of errors in college students' essays for freshman composition. In the experimental group of 42 students, the professor assigned several exercises in grammar and mechanics as a review…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing (Composition), Testing, Freshman Composition
El-Koumy, Abdel Salam Abdel Khalek – Online Submission, 2004
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the holistic approach, as compared to the segregated-skill approach, on the quantity and quality of EFL students' academic writing. The subjects for the study were 64 graduates enrolled in the Special Diploma in Education at the School of Education in Suez during the second semester…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Essays, English (Second Language), Writing Skills
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed.; Bothman, Susan M., Ed – Online Submission, 2005
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 590 Culminating…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Action Research, Graduate Study, Teacher Certification