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Mendez, Jeanette Morehouse; Mendez, Jesse Perez – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2018
The purpose of this study is to examine gender preferences that students may have in hypothetical professor selection by either profile picture or catalog listing. First, we showed picture profiles of male and female professors (while controlling for attractiveness and age) to student participants and asked them to select one or the other. Second,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences, Course Selection (Students), College Faculty
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Yokoo, Mizue; Wakuta, Manabu; Shimizu, Eiji – Children & Schools, 2018
Bullying is a serious problem with long-term and short-term negative effects on both victims and perpetrators. Many bullying-prevention programs have been developed on the basis of peer support and social learning theories. The purpose of this study was to develop an antibullying program consisting of a short video and to survey the effectiveness…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Bullying, Prevention, Victims
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Marshall, Jeff C.; Smart, Julie B.; Alston, Daniel M. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
The current study, involving 219 teachers and 15,292 students, examined the relationship between teacher participation in a sustained professional development intervention designed to improve the quantity and quality of guided inquiry-based instruction in middle school science classrooms and subsequent student academic growth. Utilizing a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Inquiry, Scientific Concepts, Academic Achievement
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Zhang, Shi-Jun; Yu, Gui-Hua – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
In the context of mobile Internet, college students' leisure time has fragmentation characteristics to improve the value of time, it is of great practical significance to make full use of fragmentation time to study effectively. This research focuses on mobile learning model and its effect, firstly, qualitative research is used to construct the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Models, College Students, Qualitative Research
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Kim, Kyung; Clariana, Roy B. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
This quasi-experimental investigation describes the influence of text signals on second language expository science text comprehension. In two course sections, mixed proficiency Korean English language learners (n = 88) read one of two print-based English expository text passage versions. Participants in one section (n = 44) were given a version…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Pretests Posttests, Instructional Design, Statistical Analysis
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Nelson, Adam Ross – Journal of College Student Development, 2017
Student Conduct Administration (SCA) is one of many names for the processes and procedures through which colleges and universities manage student behavior. Despite the accessibility of quasi-experimental design (QED) in the study of education (Schlotter, Schwerdt, & Woessman, 2011), the existing scholarship has yet to generate strong empirical…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, College Students, Quasiexperimental Design, Student Development
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Moore, Allison B.; MacGregor, Cynthia; Cornelius-White, Jeffrey – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to examine the relationship between student achievement and racial congruence of school personnel and students to help educators and policy makers narrow the achievement gap. Design/methodology/approach: This quasi-experimental, correlational study used publicly available data from 158 elementary schools in the Houston…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Racial Relations, Quasiexperimental Design, Correlation
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McCarthy, Christopher J.; Whittaker, Tiffany A.; Boyle, Lauren H.; Eyal, Maytal – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2017
Rigorous scholarship is essential to the continued growth of group work, yet the unique nature of this counseling specialty poses challenges for quantitative researchers. The purpose of this proposal is to overview unique challenges to quantitative research with groups in the counseling field, including difficulty in obtaining large sample sizes…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Statistical Analysis, Group Counseling, Comparative Analysis
Phillips, Kristin L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
With childhood obesity on the rise and the need for American children to be academically successful compared to peer nations, it is imperative that physical activity become part of the typical school day for all elementary aged school children. There is an understanding that physical activity not only benefits physical fitness and health, but that…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Obesity
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Lin, Yi-Li; Lin, Yen-Chin – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2018
This article discusses the effectiveness of the Sexual Attitude Restructuring (SAR) curriculum in developing positive sexual attitudes amongst Taiwanese graduate students in human sexuality. Through purposive sampling, 32 graduate students in human sexuality were selected to participate in the study. Before and after providing participants with a…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Hitchcock, John H.; Johnson, R. Burke; Schoonenboom, Judith – Research in the Schools, 2018
The central purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the many ways in which special educators can generate and think about causal inference to inform policy and practice. Consideration of causality across different lenses can be carried out by engaging in multiple method and mixed methods ways of thinking about inference. This article…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Statistical Inference, Special Education, Educational Research
Haas, Lora – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Educators face an ever-increasing challenge of addressing the impact of childhood trauma in the classroom. Children impacted by trauma experience a lack of ability to regulate their behavior and learn, and most school staff have little professional development on this topic and how to best address it in the classroom. The purpose of this study was…
Descriptors: Trauma, Faculty Development, Quasiexperimental Design, Public Schools
Campbell, Michael W. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Military undergraduate students of for-profit education make up roughly four percent of the student population and often experience financial hardships. This research focused on the effectiveness of financial education on these students. This quantitative quasi-experimental study assessed military undergraduate students deployed on a military…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Undergraduate Students, Proprietary Schools, Money Management
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), which was established under the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002. It is an important part of IES's strategy to use rigorous and relevant research, evaluation, and statistics to improve the nation's education system.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Evidence, Statistical Significance
Porter, Toni; Reiman, Kayla; Nelson, Christina; Sager, Jessica; Wagner, Janna – ZERO TO THREE, 2016
This article presents findings from a quasi-experimental evaluation of quality with a sample of 28 family child care providers in the All Our Kin Family Child Care Network, a staffed family child care network which offers a range of services including relationship-based intensive consultation, and 20 family child care providers who had no…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Networks, Quasiexperimental Design
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