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Thomas, Nichole Gibbs; Thomas, Antonio Lamar – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2018
Whether instructional-communication feedback sent to struggling students and succeeding students following course exams would significantly increase their exam scores and significantly decrease their exam-skipping behavior relative to students in the control group was investigated. An experimenter-blind study utilizing feedback and the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, At Risk Students, Intervention, Tests
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Portolese, Laura; Krause, Jackie; Bonner, Julie – American Journal of Distance Education, 2016
This article focuses on timed tests and specifically on whether increased time enhances test performance. Three courses during the Winter 2015 term (quizzes n = 573) and three courses over the Spring 2015 term (quizzes n = 600) comprised this sample. Students were given the same tests, but the experimental group (Spring 2015) was given 50% more…
Descriptors: Timed Tests, Time Factors (Learning), Performance Factors, Experimental Groups
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Puma, Michael J.; Olsen, Robert B.; Bell, Stephen H.; Price, Cristofer – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2009
This NCEE Technical Methods report examines how to address the problem of missing data in the analysis of data in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) of educational interventions, with a particular focus on the common educational situation in which groups of students such as entire classrooms or schools are randomized. Missing outcome data are a…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Design, Research Methodology, Control Groups