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Kim, Yongnam; Steiner, Peter – Educational Psychologist, 2016
When randomized experiments are infeasible, quasi-experimental designs can be exploited to evaluate causal treatment effects. The strongest quasi-experimental designs for causal inference are regression discontinuity designs, instrumental variable designs, matching and propensity score designs, and comparative interrupted time series designs. This…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Causal Models, Statistical Inference, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Delaney, Jennifer A.; Kearney, Tyler D. – Journal of Higher Education, 2016
This study considered the impact of state-level guaranteed tuition programs on alternative student-based revenue streams. It used a quasi-experimental, difference-in-difference methodology with a panel dataset of public four-year institutions from 2000-2012. Illinois' 2004 "Truth-in-Tuition" law was used as the policy of interest and the…
Descriptors: State Programs, Tuition, Higher Education, Income
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Young, Viki; House, Ann; Sherer, David; Singleton, Corinne; Wang, Haiwen; Klopfenstein, Kristin – Teachers College Record, 2016
This chapter presents a case study of scaling up the T-STEM initiative in Texas. Data come from the four-year longitudinal evaluation of the Texas High School Project (THSP). The evaluation studied the implementation and impact of T-STEM and the other THSP reforms using a mixed-methods design, including qualitative case studies; principal,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Case Studies, Mixed Methods Research, Quasiexperimental Design
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Freeman, Jennifer; Simonsen, Brandi; McCoach, D. Betsy; Sugai, George; Lombardi, Allison; Horner, Robert – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2016
Attendance, behavior, and academic outcomes are important indicators of school effectiveness and long-term student outcomes. "Multi-tiered systems of support" (MTSS), such as "School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports" (SWPBIS), have emerged as potentially effective frameworks for addressing student needs and…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Intervention, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
Franklin, Barbara Gail – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Eighth grade math students must pass a standards based test to be promoted to the next grade. Students who were at risk of failing the state's annual test faced impending retention. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to see if an intensive nine-week (55 min per day) remedial Math Connection (MC) class for 67 suburban, eighth grade…
Descriptors: Intervention, Remedial Mathematics, At Risk Students, Grade 8
Smith, Samuel – Online Submission, 2016
Student achievement in reading comprehension has been an important topic for the past several years due to the importance of reading in education. School districts in South Carolina have had enormous amounts of pressure put on them to increase student reading comprehension through the implementation of SLOs and the Read to Succeed initiative. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Acceleration (Education), Correlation
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Gettinger, Maribeth; Stoiber, Karen C. – Preventing School Failure, 2018
A total of 29 low-income, prekindergarten children, attending a summer school program, participated in a six-week shared book-reading (SBR) intervention. Children were randomly assigned to one of four conditions that varied in the extent to which teachers embedded an explicit emphasis on print (code-focused interactions), vocabulary…
Descriptors: Low Income, Kindergarten, Intervention, Summer Programs
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Cardoso, Paulo; Janeiro, Isabel Nunes; Duarte, Maria Eduarda – Journal of Career Development, 2018
This article examines the process and outcome of a life design counseling group intervention with students in Grades 9 and 12. First, we applied a quasi-experimental methodology to analyze the intervention's effectiveness in promoting career certainty, career decision-making, self-efficacy, and career adaptability in a sample of 236 students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Group Counseling, Intervention
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Komalasari, Kokom; Saripudin, Didin – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
This study aims to develop and examine a civic education textbook model based on living values education in order to foster the development of junior high school students' characters. This research employs Research and Development approach with an explorative method being used at model development stage and experiment method at model testing…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Values Education, Foreign Countries
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Nikolic, Sasha; Stirling, David; Ros, Montserrat – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
Obtaining oral communication competency is an important skill for engineering students to prepare them for interacting and working in any professional setting. For engineers, it is also important to be able to present technical information to non-technical audiences. To ensure oral competency, a non-graded formative assessment approach using video…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Engineering Education, Peer Evaluation
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Shahbari, Juhaina Awawdeh – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2018
The current study examines whether the engagement of mathematics teachers in modelling activities and subsequent changes in their conceptions about these activities affect their beliefs about mathematics. The sample comprised 52 mathematics teachers working in small groups in four modelling activities. The data were collected from teachers'…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Parwati, Ni Nyoman; Sudiarta, I. Gusti Putu; Mariawan, I. Made; Widiana, I. Wayan – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2018
The aim of this study was to describe and to test the effect of learning model (problem solving learning model oriented toward Balinese local wisdom (PSBLW) Vs Direct Instruction Model (DI)) and type of mathematics problems (open and closed problems) on the ability to solve mathematics problem of the fifth-grade students of elementary in Singaraja…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Rosyida, Fathia; Ghufron, M. Ali – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
Reading skill plays a pivotal role in the process of acquiring information. An appropriate teaching technique should be implemented in order to improve the students' reading skill. This research aimed at revealing whether or not: (1) Herringbone technique (HT) is more effective than Tri Focus Steve Snyder technique (TFSST) to teach reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Habits, Teaching Methods, Reading Skills
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González-Bueno, Manuela; Quintana-Lara, Marcela; Falah, Abdulrazzag M. – Applied Language Learning, 2018
Studies of the acquisition of the lenited allophones of Spanish voiced stops have traditionally focused on the production (Lord, 2010; Rogers & Alvord, 2014; Zampini, 1994), but not on the perception of these sounds. This pilot study examines relationships between (a) learner proficiency and perception of target sounds; (b) learner perception…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Wuryani, Meilan Tri; Roemintoyo; Yamtinah, Sri – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2018
The research aims to find out the extent of the influence of textbook thematic based character education on thematic learning primary school students. This type of research is a quasi-experimental research. This research was conducted through categorizing an experimental group by textbook thematic based character education and a control group by…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, Citizenship Education, Values Education
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