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Dahlia K. Remler; Gregg G. Van Ryzin – American Journal of Evaluation, 2025
This article reviews the origins and use of the terms quasi-experiment and natural experiment. It demonstrates how the terms conflate whether variation in the independent variable of interest falls short of random with whether researchers find, rather than intervene to create, that variation. Using the lens of assignment--the process driving…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Research Design, Experiments, Predictor Variables
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Mourad El Karkri; Antonio Quesada; Marta Romero-Ariza – Review of Education, 2025
Until now, the conventional approach using two distinct groups, experimental and control, continues to dominate research, especially education research. Researchers, particularly those who are active in this domain, readily recognise this pattern when surveying literature. This article explores the use of the Solomon four-group design as a…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Experimental Groups, Control Groups
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Foster, Colin – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2023
This paper introduces a simple, quotient effect size, termed (for 'quotient'), suitable for reporting on the effectiveness of educational interventions. The quotient effect size for a pre-test-post-test design is defined as the gain score (i.e. post-test minus pre-test) for the intervention group, divided by the gain score for the control group.…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Intervention, Bias, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Aloe, Ariel M.; Thompson, Christopher G.; Liu, Zhijiang; Lin, Lifeng – Journal of Experimental Education, 2022
The distribution of the standardized mean difference is well understood. However, in many situations, researchers need to estimate an effect size to represent the relationship between a continuous outcome and a dichotomous grouping variable, adjusting for the effect of a covariate (or a set of covariates). Typically, this adjustment takes place…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Meta Analysis, Quasiexperimental Design, Regression (Statistics)
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Heining Cham; Hyunjung Lee; Igor Migunov – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
The randomized control trial (RCT) is the primary experimental design in education research due to its strong internal validity for causal inference. However, in situations where RCTs are not feasible or ethical, quasi-experiments are alternatives to establish causal inference. This paper serves as an introduction to several quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Educational Research, Quasiexperimental Design, Research Design
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Turner, Simon Lee; Korevaar, Elizabeth; Cumpston, Miranda S.; Kanukula, Raju; Forbes, Andrew B.; McKenzie, Joanne E. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2023
Interrupted time series (ITS) studies are frequently used to examine the impact of population-level interventions or exposures. Systematic reviews with meta-analyses including ITS designs may inform public health and policy decision-making. Re-analysis of ITS may be required for inclusion in meta-analysis. While publications of ITS rarely provide…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Graphs, Accuracy, Computation
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Christa S. C. Asterhan; Adam Lefstein – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Scholarly efforts to identify core design features for effective teacher professional development have grown rapidly in the last 25 years. Many concise lists of design principles have emerged, most of which converge on a consensus of 5-7 presumably 'effective' features (e.g. collaborative tasks, active learning, focus on content). The…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Faculty Development, Instructional Design, Instructional Effectiveness
Luke W. Miratrix – Grantee Submission, 2022
We are sometimes forced to use the Interrupted Time Series (ITS) design as an identification strategy for potential policy change, such as when we only have a single treated unit and cannot obtain comparable controls. For example, with recent county- and state-wide criminal justice reform efforts, where judicial bodies have changed bail setting…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Case Studies, Quasiexperimental Design, Monte Carlo Methods
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Jue-Qi Guan; Xiao-Feng Wang; Wen-Zhuo Wang; Jiong Zhu; Gwo-Jen Hwang – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Painting is the foundational expression across all art forms and is one of the key creative practices for fostering students' aesthetic ability and creativity within fine arts courses. Collaborative painting in the form of socially shared regulation of learning (SSRL) can be recognized as an effective strategy for enhancing creativity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Painting (Visual Arts), Cooperative Learning
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Jason Wallin – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2024
This essay imagines how the "quasi-philosophy" of Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) might function as a fulcrum for overturning the legacy of "standard" thinking and writing now profuse within the Educacene, or rather, the epoch of globalized educational standardization. This essay will consider how Jarry's pataphysics or "science…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Quasiexperimental Design, Academic Standards, Anti Intellectualism
Blake H. Heller; Carly D. Robinson – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Quasi-experimental methods are a cornerstone of applied social science, providing critical answers to causal questions that inform policy and practice. Although open science principles have influenced experimental research norms across the social sciences, these practices are rarely implemented in quasi-experimental research. In this paper, we…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Research Methodology, Quasiexperimental Design, Scientific Principles
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Andrew P. Jaciw – American Journal of Evaluation, 2025
By design, randomized experiments (XPs) rule out bias from confounded selection of participants into conditions. Quasi-experiments (QEs) are often considered second-best because they do not share this benefit. However, when results from XPs are used to generalize causal impacts, the benefit from unconfounded selection into conditions may be offset…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Generalization, Test Bias
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Serdar Tekin – Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, 2024
The enormous developments in technology and hence the widespread use of hand-held devices in the last few decades have led to great interest in mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) as a new way of language education. MALL is considered an effective method particularly for young language learners due to their higher level of familiarity with…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Ethics, Quasiexperimental Design
Sam Sims; Jake Anders; Matthew Inglis; Hugues Lortie-Forgues; Ben Styles; Ben Weidmann – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Over the last twenty years, education researchers have increasingly conducted randomised experiments with the goal of informing the decisions of educators and policymakers. Such experiments have generally employed broad, consequential, standardised outcome measures in the hope that this would allow decisionmakers to compare effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Randomized Controlled Trials, Program Effectiveness
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) identifies existing research on educational interventions, assesses the quality of the research, and summarizes and disseminates the evidence from studies that meet WWC standards. The WWC aims to provide enough information so educators can use the research to make informed decisions in their settings. This…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Educational Research, Educational Quality
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