Robert Bangert-Drowns

University at Albany, The State University of New York | UAlbany · Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology

The educational effects of frequent classroom testing have been studied and discussed since the early part of this century. Testing advocates have suggested that more frequent classroom testing stimulates practice and review, gives students more opportunities for feedback on their work, and has a positive influence on student study time. Reviewers...

A novel idea for information security education created by the New York State Center for Information Forensics and Assurance (CIFA) is presented. This new approach incorporates a teaching hospital model originally developed for medical training. In this model, information security problems from industry and government are solved and abstracted into...

Since the early 1970s, many educators have touted writing as a means of enhancing learning. Several reasons have been suggested for this purported enhancement: that writing is a form of learning, that writing approximates human speech, that writing supports learning strategies. Alternatively, some researchers have cautioned that the educative effec...

The quality of students' learning engagement may significantly influence their learning. Can teachers accurately judge student learning engagement with educational software? In this exploratory study, 3 fifth-grade teachers used a seven-level taxonomy to rate the frequency of different forms of engagement among 42 students interacting with differen...

In 1976, Gene Glass é rst articulated the notion of meta-analysis as the application of statistical methods to literature review (Glass, 1976). In its most essential form, meta-analysis translates study outcomes into a common metric, a mea- sure of effect size, and applies statistical methods to describe and analyze the distribution of these outcom...

Readers of the information age increasingly resort to "texts" that are stored, organized, and accessed electronically and rely on symbol systems other than alphanumeric. In schools, multimedia software and hypertexts are increasingly common documents from which students learn. This study sought to document instances of "high" literacy, literate thi...

In first explicating the notion of quantitative literature review for the social sciences, Glass (1976) argued that knowledge is not built from any individual study, but from the integration of findings from many studies. Individual studies do not so much yield knowledge as evidence with which knowledge can be built. Knowledge is socially construct...

Narrative and meta-analytic reviewers have devised systematic schemes for assessing the quality of primary research. Reviewers have had to contend with 3 questions: who defines the notion of quality? Should ratings of quality be global or refer to specific study elements? How can judgments of quality be made reliably? This chapter presents typical...

Replies to comments by R. E. Mann, R. C. Peck, A. J. McKnight, J. Hedlund, and J. P. Assailly (see records 83:32068, 32078, 32072, 32058, 32043, respectively) on results from a meta analysis by Wells-Parker et al (see record 1996-06227-001) of effects of remedial interventions with drink/drive offenders. The commentaries were valuable in that they...

Although it is increasingly common, meta-analysis is still a relatively new addition to the toolbox of research strategies. Partially because of its newness and partially because its early enthusiasts may have overstated its presumed contributions, a number of common misunderstandings have developed about the meta-analytic approach. These misunders...

A meta-analysis of the efficacy of remediation with drinking/driving offenders included 215 independent evaluations identified through a comprehensive literature search. Study characteristics, including dimensions of methodological quality were coded using scales and protocols developed by expert panels. Better methodological quality (as indicated...

Word processing in writing instruction may provide lasting educational benefits to users because it encourages a fluid conceptualization of text and frees the writer from mechanical concerns. This meta-analysis reviews 32 studies that compared two groups of students receiving identical writing instruction but allowed only one group to use word proc...

Feedback is an essential construct for many theories of learning and instruction, and an understanding of the conditions for effective feedback should facilitate both theoretical development and instructional practice. In an early review of feedback effects in written instruction, Kulhavy (1977) proposed that feedback’s chief instructional signific...

Feedback is an essential construct for many theories of learning and instruction, and an understanding of the conditions for effective feedback should facilitate both theoretical development and instructional practice. In an early review of feedback effects in written instruction, Kulhavy (1977) proposed that feedback’s chief instructional signific...

A meta-analysis of findings from 108 controlled evaluations showed that mastery learning programs have positive effects on the examination performance of students in colleges, high schools, and the upper grades in elementary schools. The effects appear to be stronger on the weaker students in a class, and they also vary as a function of mastery pro...

A meta-analysis of findings from 108 controlled evaluations showed that mastery learning programs have positive effects on the examination performance of students in colleges, high schools, and the upper grades in elementary schools. The effects appear to be stronger on the weaker students in a class, and they also vary as a function of mastery pro...

Study effect meta-analysis was used to synthesize the results of explicit instruction on critical thinking (CT). The approach involved the collection of 250 studies (books, articles, dissertations, and abstracts) from the ERIC database and "Dissertation Abstracts International", coding of the study features, calculation of effect sizes, and examina...

The EDUCOM/NCRIPTAL Higher Education Software Awards program was established to foster the development of high-quality instructional software. Achieving this goal entails the creation and dissemination of criteria for software evaluation, identification of specific software of sound design, and the granting of rewards to developers who might not ot...

In response to critics' charges that use of the word processor may have a detrimental effect on writing, this study identified and analyzed 20 published studies that used experimental and control groups to compare conventional writing instruction (using handwriting) with instruction using the word processor. Five types of outcomes were analyzed: (1...

Since the late 1960s, evaluators have examined the use of school-based alcohol and drug education programs as a means of substance abuse prevention. Narrative reviews of these evaluations agree on two points. The evaluations are generally of poor quality and they do not provide evidence that substance abuse education reduces drug use. This study us...

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Presents a brief history of the development of meta-analysis, which is quickly establishing itself as a useful tool for the social sciences. Five approaches to meta-analytic method are distinguished: Glassian meta-analysis, study effect meta-analysis, the combined probability method, approximate data pooling with tests of homogeneity, and approxima...

The educational effects of frequent classroom testing have been studied and discussed since the early part of this century. Many possible reasons for its presumed benefits have been offered, such as increased practice, review, improved course organization, and frequent opportunities for feedback. However, reviewers of evaluations of frequent testin...

Though alcohol and drug education has a long history in the United States, there is continuing concern about its effectiveness. Critics of substance abuse education have suggested that it inadvertently propagates drug use, presumably by increasing students' curiosity about drug effects and by supplying students with information about how to use dru...

A meta-analysis of 32 comparative studies showed that computer-based education has generally had positive effects on the achievement of elementary school pupils. These effects have been different, however, for programs of off-line computer-managed instruction (CMI) and for interactive computer-assisted instruction (CAI). The average effect in 28 st...

Conducted a meta-analysis of 42 controlled evaluation studies to determine the effectiveness of computer-based teaching (CBT) at the secondary level. Results indicate that programs of computer-assisted and computer-managed instruction raised student examination scores by approximately 0.4 standard deviations (SDs). Programs of computer-enriched ins...

Since meta-analysis was described in 1976 (Glass) as the application of familiar experimental methods to the integration of available research, at least five coherent approaches to meta-analysis have appeared in common use. These approaches can be divided into two broad groups. In the first group (including procedures by Robert Rosenthal, Larry Hed...

A quantitative or meta-analytic review was conducted of studies comparing computer-based education (CBE) to conventional instruction in precollege classrooms. Seventy-four studies were included in the review; sources included earlier reviews by Hartley, Burns, and authors from the University of Michigan, and the ERIC and Comprehensive Dissertation...

Conducted a meta-analytic approach to determine the effects of coaching on aptitude test scores in 38 studies. In 14 studies on the Scholastic Aptitude Test, coaching raised scores by an average of 0.15 standard deviations; in 24 studies on other aptitude and intelligence tests, coaching raised scores by an average of 0.43 standard deviations. Stud...

THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: In general, coaching improves student scores on achievement and aptitude tests--including the SAT--but not very much. While the SAT is not invulnerable to coaching programs, only a few students have found impressive results. Coaching produces the following average gains: On the SAT, .15 standard devi...

The first major applications of scientific technology to education were made by psychologist B. F. Skinner three decades ago. In the years since, the emphasis in instructional technology has shifted from programmed instruction to individualized systems of teaching to computer-based instruction. These three approaches show different degrees of promi...

This article presents results from a meta-analysis of findings on the effectiveness of coaching for achievement tests. The data for the meta-analysis came from 30 controlled studies of coaching programs. In the typical study, the effect of coaching was to raise achievement test scores by .25 standard deviations. Effects varied, however, with the le...