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Resch, Alexandra; Berk, Jillian; Akers, Lauren – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
An opportunistic experiment is a type of randomized controlled trial that studies the effects of a planned intervention or policy change with minimal added disruption and cost. This guide defines opportunistic experiments and provides examples, discusses issues to consider when identifying potential opportunistic experiments, and outlines the…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Research, Intervention, Educational Policy
Fink, Arlene – 1995
The nine-volume Survey Kit is designed to help readers prepare and conduct surveys and become better users of survey results. All the books in the series contain instructional objectives, exercises and answers, examples of surveys in use, illustrations of survey questions, guidelines for action, checklists of "dos and don'ts," and…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Poel, Christopher Jon; Homan, Robert M. – 1997
Language teachers with little or no experience in conducting research are guided through the process of deciding what kind of classroom research to undertake, and how to organize and implement it. In question-and-answer format, four types of research are defined and explained separately: action, survey, correlational, and experimental studies. For…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD. – 1994
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care is an ongoing, prospective, 3-year longitudinal study of over 1,300 full-term healthy infants and families from 10 sites across the United States. While the sample is not nationally representative, the subjects come from major regions of the country: the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Data Collection, Day Care, Day Care Effects
Albrecht, Bob; Firedrake, George – Learning & Leading with Technology, 1998
Discusses integrating mathematics/science with measurement for grades 6-12. Provides Web addresses for companies manufacturing data grabbers (instruments for gathering data in electronic form for graphing and analysis by graphing calculators and computers) and for sites offering instructional materials. Describes projects in architecture,…
Descriptors: Architecture, Computer Uses in Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD. – 1991
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care is an ongoing, prospective, 3-year longitudinal study of over 1,300 full-term healthy infants and families from 10 sites across the United States. While the sample is not nationally representative, the subjects come from major regions of the country: the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Data Collection, Day Care, Day Care Centers
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National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD. – 1992
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care is an ongoing, prospective, 3-year longitudinal study of over 1,300 full-term healthy infants and families from 10 sites across the United States. While the sample is not nationally representative, the subjects come from major regions of the country: the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Data Collection, Day Care, Day Care Centers
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National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD. – 1992
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care is an ongoing, prospective, 3-year longitudinal study of over 1,300 full-term healthy infants and families from 10 sites across the United States. While the sample is not nationally representative, the subjects come from major regions of the country: the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Data Collection, Day Care, Day Care Centers
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National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD. – 1994
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care is an ongoing, prospective, 3-year longitudinal study of over 1,300 full-term healthy infants and families from 10 sites across the United States. While the sample is not nationally representative, the subjects come from major regions of the country: the…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Development, Data Collection, Day Care