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Benjamin A. Motz; Öykü Üner; Harmony E. Jankowski; Marcus A. Christie; Kim Burgas; Diego del Blanco Orobitg; Mark A. McDaniel – Grantee Submission, 2023
For researchers seeking to improve education, a common goal is to identify teaching practices that have causal benefits in classroom settings. To test whether an instructional practice exerts a causal influence on an outcome measure, the most straightforward and compelling method is to conduct an experiment. While experimentation is common in…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Experiments, Learning Processes, Learning Management Systems
Weiss, Michael J.; Visher, Mary; Weissman, Evan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
Community college stakeholders are searching with increasing urgency for approaches with the potential to improve the success rates for community college students, particularly those in need of developmental education. "Learning communities," which place cohorts of students together in two or more courses for one semester, are a popular…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Community Colleges, Educational Objectives, Developmental Studies Programs
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Walker, Robert; Hoggart, Lesley; Hamilton, Gayle – American Journal of Evaluation, 2008
Although random assignment is generally the preferred methodology in impact evaluations, it raises numerous ethical concerns, some of which are addressed by securing participants' informed consent. However, there has been little investigation of how consent is obtained in social experiments and the amount of information that can be conveyed--and…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Program Evaluation
Syracuse Univ. Research Corp., NY. Educational Policy Research Center. – 1975
A fourth quarterly report completes one year of the Educational Policy Research Center's (EPRC) analysis and assessment of the Education Satellite Communication demonstration. Activities and accomplishments during the period April 11, 1975-July 10, 1975 are listed and described. The report also includes cost data from the Appalachian Educational…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Demonstration Programs, Educational Assessment, Educational Development
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Kuwabara, Ko – Social Forces, 2005
This article extends Simpson's (2003) research on sex differences in social dilemmas. To test the hypotheses that men defect in response to greed and women to fear, Simpson created Fear and Greed Dilemmas, but experiments using these games supported the greed hypothesis only. In this article I focus on why the fear hypothesis failed and suggest…
Descriptors: Fear, Gender Differences, Hypothesis Testing, Demonstration Programs
Luft, Julie A. – 1998
This study explores how an Inquiry-Based Demonstration Classroom (IBDC) professional development program affects the extended inquiry instruction of secondary science teachers and how teachers view their extended inquiry practice while involved in the IBDC professional development program. To assess the impact of the program on participants'…
Descriptors: Demonstration Centers, Demonstration Programs, Educational Experiments, Faculty Development
Fraser, Barry J., Ed. – 1993
This document was compiled to help keep science and mathematics teachers in Australia abreast of the results of important research endeavors in education. The monograph is divided into 12 chapters. Chapter one, "Exemplary Science and Mathematics Teachers," (Barry Fraser and Kenneth Tobin) describes a study focusing on examples of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Demonstration Programs, Diagrams