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Lord, Pippa; Rabiasz, Adam; Styles, Ben – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
The "'Literacy Octopus' Dissemination Trial" aimed to test the impact on pupil outcomes of disseminating research summaries and evidence-based resources to schools. The materials aimed to support teaching and learning of Key Stage 2 literacy and were created by leading organisations with experience of engaging schools in evidence use.…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Educational Resources, Information Dissemination
Bottini, Cheryl L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a school counselor-led classroom intervention, Student Success Skills (SSS) program (Brigman & Webb, 2010), on Grade 5 Hispanic students' self-regulation, school attendance, and test anxiety. The study used non-identifying archival data from a random controlled trial (RCT) collected at 30…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Management, Attendance, Test Anxiety
Meola, Cheryl C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Due to the complexity of the counseling process, counselors-in-training often experience performance anxiety when entering the counseling profession. Research shows that higher counseling self-efficacy (the belief in oneself to perform counseling skills successfully) helps decrease performance anxiety. Further, a strong supervisory working…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Self Efficacy, Counselor Attitudes, Intervention
Lisa DaVia Rubenstein; E. Jean Gubbins – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
Designing, developing, and implementing a multi-year randomized control trial targeting what works in gifted education mathematics study is challenging, at best. In response to the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences request for proposal, we carefully constructed a mixed-methods study by assembling a diverse…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Research Design, Randomized Controlled Trials, Interviews
Waffenschmidt, Siw; Guddat, Charlotte – Research Synthesis Methods, 2015
Background: It is unclear which terms should be included in bibliographic searches for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of drugs, and identifying relevant drug terms can be extremely laborious. The aim of our analysis was to determine whether a bibliographic search using only the generic drug name produces sufficient results for the generation…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Drug Therapy, Outcomes of Treatment, Databases
Bayer, Amanda; Grossman, Jean; DuBois, David – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Prior research on mentoring relationships outside of school does point toward relationship closeness and related indicators of the emotional quality of the mentor-protégé tie as important influences on youth outcomes. There is preliminary evidence that this may also be the case for School Based Mentoring (SBM), or at least that closeness promotes…
Descriptors: Mentors, Volunteers, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Al-ebous, Tahani – International Education Studies, 2016
This study aimed to investigate the effect of the van Hiele model in Geometric Concepts Acquisition, and the attitudes towards Geometry and learning transfer of the first three grades students in Jordan. Participants of the study consisted of 60 students from the third grade primary school students from the First Directorate, Amman, in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometric Concepts, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
Nye, Elizabeth; Gardner, Frances; Hansford, Lorraine; Edwards, Vanessa; Hayes, Rachel; Ford, Tamsin – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2016
Children identified with special educational needs (SEN) and behavioural difficulties present extra challenges to educators and require additional supports in school. This paper presents views from special educational needs coordinators (SENCos) on various strategies used by educators to support children identified with SEN and problematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Techniques, Behavior Modification, Primary Education
Crouch, Elizabeth; Dickes, Lori A.; Davis, Amanda; Zarandy, Joy – American Journal of Health Education, 2016
Background: Consumption of social media has quickly evolved into a primary source of health information for many consumers. This seems to be particularly true for individuals seeking to modify chronic health conditions like weight loss, obesity, and obesity-related diseases. Purpose: This study explores whether watching Dr. Oz weight loss episodes…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Popular Culture, Television, Life Style
Cho, Sun-Joo; Preacher, Kristopher J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
Multilevel modeling (MLM) is frequently used to detect cluster-level group differences in cluster randomized trial and observational studies. Group differences on the outcomes (posttest scores) are detected by controlling for the covariate (pretest scores) as a proxy variable for unobserved factors that predict future attributes. The pretest and…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Error Correction, Multivariate Analysis, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Van de Sande, E.; Segers, E.; Verhoeven, L. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2016
The present study examined how embedded activities to support executive functions helped children to benefit from a computer intervention that targeted preliteracy skills. Three intervention groups were compared on their preliteracy gains in a randomized controlled trial design: an experimental group that worked with software to stimulate early…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Children, Emergent Literacy, Computer Literacy
Kourea, Lefki; Lo, Ya-yu – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2016
Improving academic, behavioural, and social outcomes of students through empirical research has been a firm commitment among researchers, policy-makers, and other professionals in education across Europe and the United States (U.S.). To assist in building scientific evidences, executive bodies such as the European Commission and the Institute for…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Validity, Randomized Controlled Trials, Research Methodology
Harris, Kari Jo; Bradley-Ewing, Andrea; Goggin, Kathy; Richter, Kimber P.; Patten, Christi; Williams, Karen; Lee, Hyoung S.; Staggs, Vincent S.; Catley, Delwyn – Health Education Research, 2016
Little is known about effective methods to recruit unmotivated smokers into cessation induction trials, the reasons unmotivated smokers agree to participate, and the impact of those reasons on study outcomes. A mixed-method approach was used to examine recruitment data from a randomized controlled cessation induction trial that enrolled 255 adult…
Descriptors: Smoking, Recruitment, Mixed Methods Research, Risk
Tibbetts, Yoi; Harackiewicz, Judith M.; Priniski, Stacy J.; Canning, Elizabeth A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have recently documented the positive effects of social-psychological interventions on the performance and retention of underrepresented students in the life sciences. We review two types of social-psychological interventions that address either students' well-being in college science courses or students'…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Access to Education, Outreach Programs, Randomized Controlled Trials
What Works Clearinghouse, 2016
"First year experience courses for students in developmental education" are designed to ease the transition to college by providing academic and social development supports. Although course content and focus may vary, most are designed to introduce students to campus resources, provide training in time management and study skills, and…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Remedial Instruction, Undergraduate Students, College Freshmen