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Thomas, Gary – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
Natural scientists are relaxed about the multiple forms experiment takes in their various fields. Yet in education we have for many years constrained our notion of experiment. This methodological circumscription has been self-imposed on the grounds that experiment of a particular, well-defined form offers the clearest evidence of a link between…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Models, Intervention, Context Effect
Sam Sims; Jake Anders; Matthew Inglis; Hugues Lortie-Forgues; Ben Styles; Ben Weidmann – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Over the last twenty years, education researchers have increasingly conducted randomised experiments with the goal of informing the decisions of educators and policymakers. Such experiments have generally employed broad, consequential, standardised outcome measures in the hope that this would allow decisionmakers to compare effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Randomized Controlled Trials, Program Effectiveness
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Li, Jieyu; Huang, Chunlan; Wang, Xiuhong; Wu, Shengli – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2016
Introduction: In the big data age, we have to deal with a tremendous amount of information, which can be collected from various types of sources. For information search systems such as Web search engines or online digital libraries, the collection of documents becomes larger and larger. For some queries, an information search system needs to…
Descriptors: Search Engines, Data Processing, Database Management Systems, Data
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Zheng, Lanqin; Yang, Kaicheng; Huang, Ronghuai – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This study proposes a new method named the IIS-map-based method for analyzing interactions in face-to-face collaborative learning settings. This analysis method is conducted in three steps: firstly, drawing an initial IIS-map according to collaborative tasks; secondly, coding and segmenting information flows into information items of IIS; thirdly,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Program Effectiveness, Research Methodology
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Schulte, Ann C.; Easton, Julia E.; Parker, Justin – School Psychology Review, 2009
Documenting treatment integrity is an important issue in research and practice in any discipline concerned with prevention and intervention. However, consensus concerning the dimensions of treatment integrity and how they should be measured has yet to emerge. Advances from three areas in which significant treatment integrity work has taken…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, Outcomes of Treatment, School Psychology
Rosen, Marvin J. – 1968
An experiment was designed to compare two alternative procedures for revising a preliminary version of an instructional program, one based on a subjective analysis of the program's behavioral goals, the other on an objective analysis of test data obtained from a trial of the unrevised program. Conforming to an experimental model, 20…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Educational Experiments