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Newman, Isadore; Ridenour, Carolyn S.; Newman, Carole; Smith, Shannon; Brown, Russell C. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2013
Many important educational situations such as traumatic brain injury among preschoolers, school gun violence, preadolescent eating disorders, and adolescent suicide happen relatively infrequently. In this article, the authors explain why mixed methods research designs offer more meaningful empirical results than do qualitative or quantitative…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Research Design, Incidence, Suicide
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Benson, Nicholas; Newman, Isadore – Psychology in the Schools, 2010
This article describes how actuarial methods can supplant discrepancy models and augment problem solving and Response to Intervention (RTI) efforts by guiding the process of identifying specific learning disabilities (SLD). Actuarial methods use routinized selection and execution of formulas derived from empirically established relationships to…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Medical Evaluation, Learning Disabilities, Academic Failure
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Newman, Isadore; Deitchman, Robert – Journal of Studies in Technical Careers, 1983
Discusses the relationship between research and evaluation. Presents several evaluation models currently used and discusses considerations for each of them. Categorizes arguments representing skepticism surrounding evaluation as psychological, academic, political, and even irrelevant. (JOW)
Descriptors: Credibility, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Models
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Foster, Harold M.; Newman, Isadore – Language and Education: An International Journal, 1988
Discusses a study that attempted to create and test the validity of an error analysis model usable by high school teachers. Results indicate that, in themes that do not contain significant mechanical errors, syntactical errors do not lead to a breakdown of meaning. Numerous syntactical errors, however, do create comprehension problems. (15…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Error Analysis (Language), Listening Comprehension, Models
Fraas, John W.; Newman, Isadore – 1992
A new method for evaluating model fit that is easy to use and interpret is presented. The new method, which uses a binomial test of the number of hypotheses (paths) in a model that are supported by the data, has heuristic value when considering problems associated with other goodness-of-fit measures. An application of the binomial test as a…
Descriptors: Career Development, Estimation (Mathematics), Evaluation Methods, Goodness of Fit
Newman, Isadore – 1974
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a systematic teaching approach known as the General Teaching Model for instructing college students in reading. The model consists of identifying appropriate objectives for the student, pre-assessment prior to beginning instruction, instructional procedures designed to help the learner achieve the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Evaluation
Fraas, John W.; Russell, Gary; Newman, Isadore – 1997
Teacher efficacy has been identified as a variable that can influence teacher effectiveness. The results of methods designed to change teacher efficacy, however, have been mixed. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the possible impact on teacher efficacy of the FOCUS (1992) instructional method, which is designed to create an environment in…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study