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Madison, Matthew J.; Bradshaw, Laine – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2018
The evaluation of intervention effects is an important objective of educational research. One way to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention is to conduct an experiment that assigns individuals to control and treatment groups. In the context of pretest/posttest designed studies, this is referred to as a control-group pretest/posttest design.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Control Groups
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Elaldi, Senel – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
This study aimed to determine the effect of mastery learning model supported with reflective thinking activities on the fifth grade medical students' academic achievement. Mixed methods approach was applied in two samples (n = 64 and n = 6). Quantitative part of the study was based on a pre-test-post-test control group design with an experiment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mastery Learning, Models, Reflection
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Siadat, M. Vali; Musial, Paul M.; Sagher, Yoram – PRIMUS, 2008
This study reports the effects of an integrated instructional program (the Keystone Method) on the students' performance in mathematics and reading, and tracks students' persistence and retention. The subject of the study was a large group of students in remedial mathematics classes at the college, willing to learn but lacking basic educational…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Persistence, Remedial Mathematics
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Kazu, Ibrahim Y.; Kazu, Hilal; Ozdemir, Oguzhan – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
In order to realize one of the most important necessities of the life, which is learning, the human being spends most of their life for education-training activities. In the conventional applications, every individual, being a part of a group is dependant on a single program and an educational management which was chosen for the group by the…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Academic Achievement, College Students