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A Quasi-Experimental, School-Based Intervention Study with Pre-Test, Post-Test and Retention Measures
… SKIP (Successful Kinesthetic Instruction for Pre-schoolers) intervention on the development of fundamental motor skills (FMS) in Year 1 secondary pupils aged 11–12. The study aimed to address three main research questions: firstly, whether pre-test differences existed by group and sex across …
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Analysis of Pre Test and Post Test Performance of Students in a Learning Center Model at the Elementary School Level
… small group instruction using select reading comprehension strategies on student reading achievement comparing Measures of Academic Progress (MAPs) assessments from September 2014 to February 2015. The literature suggests that reading comprehension strategies and phonetic awareness improvements …
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The Severity of Recurrent Violence During and Following Couples\' Participation in Domestic Violence-Focused Couple Therapy
… violence was found to be quite high. Chi Square tests revealed a difference in severity of violence during the time couples (N=41) were participating in the program in that more couples reported minor only violence at post-test than at pre-test and fewer couples reported severe violence at …
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea Educational Intervention of Dental Hygiene Students
… knowledge was assessed with a 17 question, comprehension based pre-test and post-test. The convenience sample consisted of first year DH students enrolled in DNHY 341S Management of the Medically Compromised at Eastern Washington University (EWU). Participants completed the pre-test, viewed the …
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The effects of character education on fourth grade students' attitudes toward in-school behavior
… classroom setting. This study used scores from a pre-test and post-test which was designed with character development scenarios taken by fourth grade students in a rural elementary school after they participated in a character education unit.</p> <p>Eighteen (n = 18) participated in this …
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The use of e-learning to increase adolescent health literacy
… students on a Nutrition Questionnaire's pre-test and post-test. The Nutrition Questionnaire consisted of three parts: (1) 5 demographic questions (i.e., age, school name, grade, gender, ethnicity), (2) a question asking whether students had been exposed to educational material on …
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Effects of career guidance on grade 9 learners' readiness to make career choices
… was administered to the experimental group as a pre-test and post-test measure and was administered to the control group once. Frequency tables and f-tests were utilized to analyse data obtained, it was found that the difference between the pre-test scores and the post-test scores (for the …
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Learning experiments in a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
We present results from two treatment / control experiments in the 8.MReV: Mechanics ReView massive open online course (MOOC) run on edX.org during summer 2014. We compare the efficacy of physics homework problems: (1) traditional physics problems involving many skills, (2) deliberate-practice …
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A Study of the Effect of Teaching Current Events on Students in Grade 5
… news. The data was gathered from three weeks of pre-testing, one week of concentrated study, and one week of no study followed by a post test of 37 fifth grade children. The results of each test (pre-test, project test and post test) were tabulated and a mean score given to each raw score. The …
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The Effect of a Teaching Intervention on Cardiac Risk Factor Knowledge Among Elementary School Children
… disease was investigated. A quasi-experimental, pre-test, post-test study was conducted with two groups of students. Administration of five one-hour teaching interventions were done on general heart health, nutrition, exercise, and smoking to the experimental group. Whereas the control and …
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The effect of lip-slur practice on increasing pitch range in brasswind instrument students
… This study used a matched subjects control group pre-test/post-test design to test a researcher-designed lip-slur teaching program aimed at subjects in their second to fifth years of brasswind study. The subjects were in school years eight, nine and ten. The pre-test and post-test was a …
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Emotional Intelligence and Social Skills in Adolescents with ASD with Intact Intellectual Functioning after the Participation in PEERS
… one week prior to the start of the intervention (pre-test), one-week post intervention (post-test), and 14 weeks after completion of the program (follow-up). Results of the study indicate significant improvements in social skills as rated by caregivers from pre-test to post-test, with large effect …
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An evaluation of a character education program on students with developmental disabilities
… the control (n=14) groups were administered a pre-test during the same week. Following this, a six-week character education program was implemented with the experimental group. A post-test was then administered to both groups. Two hypotheses were generated; primarily, character education would …
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A Comparison of Effectiveness of Structured and Non-Structured Strategies of Rhetorical Invention for Written Argumentation Produced by Community College Students
… and professionals about the optimal conditions preceding the composing process, especially among college students. This study was intended to explore the effectiveness of structured (Larson's Heuristic) and non-structured (freewriting) strategies of rhetorical invention produced by community …
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Increasing students self-esteem through the implementation of the Bucket Filler Lesson Plans
… was used to measure student's self-esteem as a pre-test and a post-test assessment. The experimental group received the implementation of the Bucket Filler Lesson plans in hopes that their self-esteem would improve upon completion of the lessons. The lessons took place over the course of three …
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Attitudes and Perceived Behavioral Control of First-Year College Student's Alcohol Use: A Study of an Instructional Software Intervention
Results of t-tests, ANOVAs, and correlations revealed that the Alcohol 101 intervention had a significant improvement in the desired direction for all, students, Greeks and non-Greeks, and men and women in regard to their attitude and personal control from pre-test to post-test. Greek students had …
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The influence of Inquiry Based Science Education on Grade 4 learners understanding of the particulate nature of matter in the gaseous phase
… mentioned difficult science topic. A qualitative pre-test/post-test case study was carried out at two schools in Pretoria, South Africa. Two grade 4 classes were identified at each of the two schools. One of the classes in each school was set aside for lecture teaching and the other was set aside …
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Perceiving Organizational Conflict: The Effect of Occupational Rank and Sex on Perceptions of Conflict in the Workplace
… than an independent variable. A reward-level pre-test was used to account for the predisposition to cooperate, and a mixed motive scale (post-test) was used to measure any differences in cooperation between occupational ranks and the sexes. Two hypotheses in this study were tested. First, in a …
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