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Charlotte Z. Mann; Jiaying Wang; Adam Sales; Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch – Grantee Submission, 2024
The gold-standard for evaluating the effect of an educational intervention on student outcomes is running a randomized controlled trial (RCT). However, RCTs may often be small due to logistical considerations, and resulting treatment effect estimates may lack precision. Recent methods improve experimental precision by incorporating information…
Descriptors: Intervention, Outcomes of Education, Randomized Controlled Trials, Data Use
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Charlotte Z. Mann; Jiaying Wang; Adam Sales; Johann A. Gagnon-Bartsch – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2024
The gold-standard for evaluating the effect of an educational intervention on student outcomes is running a randomized controlled trial (RCT). However, RCTs may often be small due to logistical considerations, and resulting treatment effect estimates may lack precision. Recent methods improve experimental precision by incorporating information…
Descriptors: Intervention, Outcomes of Education, Randomized Controlled Trials, Data Use
Weiss, Michael J.; Headlam, Camielle – MDRC, 2018
Community colleges are a large sector of postsecondary education. In 2016-2017, the United States had nearly 1,000 public 2-year postsecondary institutions (community colleges), serving almost nine million students, representing 39% of all undergraduates. The majority of entering community college students require developmental (or remedial) math.…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Computer Assisted Instruction, Pacing, Remedial Mathematics
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Spybrook, Jessaca; Westine, Carl D.; Taylor, Joseph A. – AERA Open, 2016
The Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development were created as a joint effort between the Institute of Education Science and the National Science Foundation in an effort to streamline education research and contribute to an accumulation of knowledge that will lead to improved student outcomes. One type of research that emerged in the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Outcomes of Education, Science Achievement, Reading Achievement
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Foster, M. E.; Anthony, J. L.; Clements, D. H.; Sarama, J.; Williams, J. M. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Children from low-income and ethnic minority backgrounds have demonstrated substantially lower levels of math achievement than their middle class majority peers for decades. The present study addressed two research questions: (1) when used as a supplement to typical classroom instruction and in isolation from the larger curriculum, does Building…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Computer Assisted Instruction, Numeracy, Mathematics Instruction
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2016
"Teach For America" ("TFA") is a highly selective route to teacher certification that aims to place non-traditionally trained teachers in high-need public schools. The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) identified seven studies of teachers trained through "TFA" that both fall within the scope of the Teacher Training,…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Public Schools, Academic Achievement, Language Arts