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Cornelius, Annette Sargent – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the effectiveness of a system-wide Response to Intervention (RTI) program on the mathematical achievement of seventh and eighth grade students. The study consisted of five district schools with a total of 502 participants. The students were identified as belonging to one of two tiers, which…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Bottge, Brian A.; Ma, Xin; Gassaway, Linda; Toland, Michael D.; Butler, Mark; Cho, Sun-Joo – Exceptional Children, 2014
A pretest-posttest cluster-randomized trial involving 31 middle schools and 335 students with disabilities tested the effects of combining explicit and anchored instruction on fraction computation and problem solving. Results of standardized and researcher-developed tests showed that students who were taught with the blended units outscored…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Disabilities, Computation
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Bergin, David A.; Cooks, Helen C.; Bergin, Christi C. – Research in Higher Education, 2007
This article describes EXCEL, a program that encourages youth underrepresented in higher education to enroll in higher education, specifically at the sponsoring university. Eighty-three eighth grade students with GPA of B and above and standardized test scores at grade level or above were randomly assigned to the program or to a control group. The…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Higher Education, Grade Point Average, Enrichment Activities