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Pretest Development for Gifted Biology Students
<p>Public education has redirected concern for the education of a subpopulation within the public schools which have special needs rooted in their innate abilities to excel in selected areas. That subpopulation identified as gifted students has traditionally been approached with a variety of …
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Development of a textiles pretest for college students
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1963 K66
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Pretest Estimators for the Two Sample Linear Statistical Model
… we examine the sampling characteristics of the pretest estimator that makes use of this two stage test. The analytical risk will be derived, and the UNIFORM superiority of the 2 stage pretest estimator with respect to the GAUSS MARKOV estimator is shown. Finally, an extension of the two sample …
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Comparing outcome measures derived from four research designs incorporating the retrospective pretest.
Over the last 5 decades, the retrospective pretest has been used in behavioral science research to battle key threats to the internal validity of posttest-only control-group and pretest-posttest only designs. The purpose of this study was to compare outcome measures resulting from four research …
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An Investigation of Some Effects of the Pretest on the Measurement of Attitude Change
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T23:50:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0019882.pdf: 5393256 bytes, checksum: 5e1a289124cf8d9e7442ded0ae412c0e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1956
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Impact of a Teacher Training Program to Increase Cognitively Stimulating Talk: Pretest and Immediate Post-Test Results
<p>The literacy skills that students develop in preschool are an imperative aspect of school readiness and later academic success. Research has established that some students begin their educational experience at a disadvantage due to the low socioeconomic status (SES) of their family and, as a …
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The Development and Pretest of a Methodology to Investigate The Competitive Status of Markets for Property-Liability Insurance
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T23:19:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212249.pdf: 6331061 bytes, checksum: 1a08ba6a4329f0e63d911508ae5a42a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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The Pretesting Effect: How Question-Type and Structure Building Ability Impact Learning
… test questions can enhance learning (the pretesting effect). However, most of the pretesting literature has only examined the learning benefits of asking closed-ended pretest questions (i.e., fill-in-the-blank). Whereas learning benefits have been found for “old” questions asked at both …
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Self-Assessment and Student Improvement in an Introductory Computer Course at the Community College-level
… scores as measured by the difference in pretest and posttest scores of new or novice users, moderate users, and expert users at the end of a college-level introductory computing class. This study also determined whether there were differences in improvement scores by gender or age group. …
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An evaluation of the effects of health orientations on nutrition knowledge, beliefs, and behavior
… whether the differences between participants' pretest and posttest scores for nutrition knowledge, beliefs, and behavior were significant and positive, (3) to determine whether participant:s pretest scores for nutrition knowledge, beliefs, and behavior were significantly and negatively …
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Increasing nutrition knowledge and food-related behavior practices among participants in the "Dining with Diabetes" program in West Virginia
… program. Subjects completed a demographic form, pretest, and posttest. Pearson's correlation and ANOVA were used to determine the effect of a diabetes intervention program on nutrition knowledge, diabetes behaviors, and practices. The results indicated that there was no significant difference in …
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The Impact Of A College Wellness Course On Wellness Knowledge, Attitude, And Behavior
… Instrument during the first class period (pretest) and last week (posttest) of the course.</p> <p>Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), with repeated measures on one factor, was conducted to determine whether there would be statistically significant differences between the pretest and posttest …
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New methods of online calibration for item bank replenishment
… to recruit examinees for the sole purpose of pretesting the new items, a more cost-effective and commonly employed approach is to embed the new items in operational tests. When this approach is employed in computerized adaptive tests (CAT), it is called ""online calibration."" Analogous to the …
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Effects of Training on Intent, Ease, Self-Efficacy, Frequency, and Usefulness in Multimedia-Based Feedback for University-Level Instructors Using Canvas® LMS
… August of 2015 and concluded in April of 2016. A pretest questionnaire was administered prior to each Canvas® training class, and instruction began immediately thereafter lasting 2 hours per class session. The posttest was administered 4 weeks after the training class. Twenty-six instructors …
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Expectation shift of student teachers and their cooperating teachers
… pairs participated in the study. Pairs completed pretest and posttest instruments. Instruments administered were the Student Teacher Expectation Scale and the Cooperating Teacher Expectation Scale given to student teachers and cooperating teachers respectively. The …
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The Effect of the Game Anatomania on Achievement of Nursing Students
… with no use of the game ANATOMANIA. A pretest-posttest examination, written by the investigator, was used as the data collection tool. Findings. A "t" test was used to determine if there was any statistical differences in pretest score means between the experimental and control groups …
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Oral care during pregnancy: an educational intervention
… health knowledge were assessed using a 9-item pretest and posttest survey. Participants completed the pretest, were presented an educational module, and were asked to complete an immediate posttest. A second posttest was sent via e-mail to the participants three weeks after the educational …
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Identity and Self -Efficacy Development of Adolescents in an Adult Sponsored Volunteer Program
… style of identity posttest compared to pretest; (2) adolescents who participate in an adult sponsored volunteer program will have lower levels of normative and diffuse/avoidant identity styles posttest compared to pretest; (3) adolescents who participate in an adult sponsored volunteer …
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The relationship of service learning and college student development
… development of skills, and knowledge of self?" A pretest/posttest design was employed to measure the four dimensions of growth associated with participation in community service learning experiences. The sample was 116 students enrolled at James Madison University and Radford University. Data from …
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The use of cognitive mapping strategies for formulating Nursing diagnoses of a patient in pain
… and those who did not receive instructions. A pretest-posttest control experimental design was used to test the hypothesis. Two groups of registered nurses (30 in each group) were selected for the study. The experimental group received a pretest, treatment (instructions), and a posttest. The …
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