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Todd, Brenda K.; Fischer, Rico A.; Di Costa, Steven; Roestorf, Amanda; Harbour, Kate; Hardiman, Paul; Barry, John A. – Infant and Child Development, 2018
From an early age, most children choose to play with toys typed to their own gender. In order to identify variables that predict toy preference, we conducted a meta-analysis of observational studies of the free selection of toys by boys and girls aged between 1 and 8 years. From an initial pool of 1788 papers, 16 studies (787 boys and 813 girls)…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Young Children, Toys, Preferences
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La Valle, Chelsea – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2015
Parents of children with significant externalizing and internalizing behavioral problems habitually report greater parenting stress compared to parents of children without these challenges. One avenue to alleviate parenting stress and ameliorate youth outcomes is youth mentoring, which includes a supportive adult paired with a child with the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Stress Variables, Stress Management
Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2012
This review examines research on the effects of technology use on reading achievement in K-12 classrooms. It applies consistent inclusion standards to focus on studies that met high methodological standards. A total of 84 qualified studies based on over 60,000 K-12 participants were included in the final analysis. Four major categories of…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Meta Analysis
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Fehr, Ryan; Gelfand, Michele J.; Nag, Monisha – Psychological Bulletin, 2010
Forgiveness has received widespread attention among psychologists from social, personality, clinical, developmental, and organizational perspectives alike. Despite great progress, the forgiveness literature has witnessed few attempts at empirical integration. Toward this end, we meta-analyze results from 175 studies and 26,006 participants to…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Reliability, Generalization, Meta Analysis
Cheung, Alan C. K.; Slavin, Robert E. – Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2012
The purpose of this review is to learn from rigorous evaluations of alternative technology applications how features of using technology programs and characteristics of their evaluations affect reading outcomes for students in grades K-12. The review applies consistent inclusion standards to focus on studies that met high methodological standards.…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Meta Analysis
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Vogel, Jennifer J.; Vogel, David S.; Cannon-Bowers, Jan; Bowers, Clint A.; Muse, Kathryn; Wright, Michelle – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2006
Substantial disagreement exists in the literature regarding which educational technology results in the highest cognitive gain for learners. In an attempt to resolve this dispute, we conducted a meta-analysis to decipher which teaching method, games and interactive simulations or traditional, truly dominates and under what circumstances. It was…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Simulation, Computers