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Hirsh, Holen K.; Richmond, Melissa K.; Pampel, Fred C.; Jones, Shelby S.; Molieri, Anthony C.; Jones, Josephine – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings. A randomized controlled trial evaluated the impact of Motheread/Fatheread Colorado (MFC), an early childhood literacy intervention, on parent reading behaviors and their preschool-aged children's literacy skills. Parents in the experimental condition participated in MFC; control parents did not. Dependent variables included…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Emergent Literacy, Rural Areas, Experimental Groups
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Hedberg, E. C.; Hedges, Larry – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to showcase new research that seeks to provide guidance on the heterogeneity of treatment effects by utilizing the variance of demographic differences in state assessments. This study is focused on a simple randomized block design where students are nested within schools, and within each school students are randomized…
Descriptors: Databases, Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Research, Research Design
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Taylor, Joseph A.; Roth, Kathleen; Wilson, Christopher D.; Stuhlsatz, Molly A. M.; Tipton, Elizabeth – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
This article describes the effects of an analysis-of-practice professional development (PD) program on elementary school students' (Grades 4-6) science outcomes. The study design was a cluster-randomized trial with an analysis sample of 77 schools, 144 teachers and 2,823 students. Forty-two schools were randomly assigned to treatment, (88.5 hours)…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Elementary School Science, Science Achievement, Elementary School Students