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Norton, Robert Ellsworth – 1967
The purpose of the study was to experimentally test the theory that programed instruction can satisfactorily teach psychomotor tasks which primarily require the learning of cognitive knowledge in order to properly utilize motor skills already possessed. A programed unit on regrinding drills was selected, and a dexterity test and self-instructional…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Autoinstructional Aids, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
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Utah State Univ., Logan. Exceptional Child Center. – 1976
A parent training model utilizing rural Utah (Box Elder County) parents whose children had been identified by their teachers as among the lowest three in their classes in reading or mathematics performance examined the academic performance of 150 students in grades 2-6 derived from 9 elementary schools (5 schools in the treatment group and 4 in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Control Groups, Elementary Education, Experimental Groups
Saretsky, Gary – 1975
The paper describes an unacknowledged artifact that may confound experimental evaluations of innovations. The paper hypothesizes that control group members (teachers, pupils, etc.) perceiving the consequences of an innovation as threatening to their job, salary, status, or traditional patterns of working, may perform atypically and confound the…
Descriptors: Bias, Change Strategies, Control Groups, Educational Innovation
Rucks, Carlos Alberto – 1969
Conducted in Uruguay during 1965-68, this study compared adoption rates for selected agricultural practices between one area which received an extension program and one which did not; and sought relationships between selected characteristics of individual farmers and the adoption of new practices. Data came from interviews with 69 experimental and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agricultural Education, Analysis of Variance, Bibliographies
Craytor, Josephine K. – 1967
The four goals of this project are outlined in some detail. First, a unit programed for self-instruction in nursing, entitled "An Introduction to Radiation Therapy" was revised and rewritten on the basis of knowledge gained from controlled use. The revised unit took less time, showed a decreased error rate and indicated greater learning. A second…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Experience, Control Groups
Fogliatto, Hermelinda M. – 1963
In this research on individual differences in thought processes, the primary interest was to study the process followed by the subject in order to reach the solution of the problem. For this purpose, the performance of 38 experimental subjects was studied throughout 24 problems of the training sessions. The methods used were group norms, length of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups
Sheldon, M. Stephen; Miller, E. D. – 1973
Mastery learning is an approach to learning whereby students are expected to demonstrate competence of one level, or unit, of learning objectives before advancing to the next level. Most junior college instruction is group-paced, with the instructor determining the rate with which units are presented. One compromise between existing instruction…
Descriptors: Algebra, Behavioral Objectives, College Students, Control Groups
Poltkin, Alan Leonard – 1966
The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of occupational information classes on the vocational interest patterns of slow learning senior high school boys, and to develop and utilize an occupational information curriculum appropriate to the intellectual level of the students involved. From a random sample of 80 slow learning 11th…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Analysis of Variance, Curriculum Development, Doctoral Dissertations
Rosenshine, Barak; Furst, Norma – 1969
This review focuses on 16 studies in which the effects of tutoring were measured using student achievement, being limited to studies appearing through 1969. Additional studies that the authors subsequently found are considered to still support the conclusions drawn in this review on the general characteristics of successful tutoring programs and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Control Groups, Elementary Schools
Larson, Daro E. – 1972
This study was undertaken to ascertain the degree of stability of significant gains made in intellectual functioning by a group of children who attended Head Start programs and two groups of children who did not attend preschool programs. Data collected and analyzed at postkindergarten showed nonsignificant differences between performance levels…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Disadvantaged Youth
Gale, Irma F.; Boisvert, Louis – 1971
This study of the negative side of children's writing utilized an experimental group and a control group equalized according to sex and the results of the language sub-tests of the Stanford Achievement Tests. Students wrote two 1,000 word composition samples, one during the first month of the study and one during the ninth month. The purposes of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Elementary School Students
Kilic, Ziya; Kaya, Osman Nafiz; Dogan, Alev – Online Submission, 2004
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of scientific discussions based on student-constructed pre- and post-laboratory concept maps on students' attitudes toward chemistry laboratory in the university general chemistry. As part of instruction, during the first four laboratory sessions, students were taught how to construct and…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Concept Mapping, Investigations
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McAllister, Deborah A. – Online Submission, 1987
This thesis investigates the effects of using computer-assisted instruction to supplement traditional classroom methods in high school physics. Students were divided into two groups, experimental and control, with the experimental group receiving the supplement of a drill and practice exercise by microcomputer. After a 2-week study, data was…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational History, Secondary Education, Physics
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Amer, Aly A. – ELT Journal, 1997
Using a multiple-choice test and a story frame test, this study measured the effect on reading comprehension of reading a story aloud to English-as-a-Second-Language students. Findings indicate that these students outperformed on both tests those students who read the story silently. (Six references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Control Groups, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Experimental Groups
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Thal, Donna J.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1995
Toddlers in the lowest 10th percentile for lexical production were compared with age- and language-matched controls on measures of phonetic complexity, lexical development, and grammatical complexity. Results indicate an overlap between phonology, lexicon, and grammar and suggest the importance of true consonant production for lexical development.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Control Groups, Data Analysis
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