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Thomas, Gary – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
Natural scientists are relaxed about the multiple forms experiment takes in their various fields. Yet in education we have for many years constrained our notion of experiment. This methodological circumscription has been self-imposed on the grounds that experiment of a particular, well-defined form offers the clearest evidence of a link between…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Models, Intervention, Context Effect
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Waschull, Stefanie B. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2018
This chapter explores early impacts from the Florida College system's bold experiment in making placement testing and developmental education optional for most students.
Descriptors: Colleges, Educational Experiments, College Students, Student Placement
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Lee, Hee Seung; Ahn, Dahwi – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
The forward effect of testing occurs when testing on previously studied information facilitates subsequent learning. The present research investigated whether interim testing on initially studied materials enhances the learning of new materials in category learning and examined the metacognitive judgments of such learning. Across the 4…
Descriptors: Testing, Student Evaluation, Learning Processes, Metacognition