Dissertations / Theses: 'Quasi-experimental'

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Tyrefors, Björn. "Institutions, policy and quasi-experimental evidence /." Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics (EFI), 2007. http://www2.hhs.se/efi/summary/730.htm.

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Draca, Mirko. "Quasi-experimental studies in applied microeconomics." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10055067/.

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In this dissertation I use a quasi-experimental approach across five different applied microeconomic studies. These studies are diverse in the range, covering police and crime, the political economy of lobbying, the effects of the minimum wage, and ‘induced innovation’ by firms in response to different incentives. However, each study outlines a comprehensive quasi-experimental approach that addresses potential threats to the given identification strategy. As a result, these studies provide credible, causal estimates of a number of important economic parameters including: the police-crime elasticity, the value of political connections among US Federal lobbyists, the impact of the minimum wage, and different incentives affecting technology adoption and innovation at the firm-level.

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Miranda, Montero Juan Jose. "Essays on Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Policy Design and Evaluation." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/econ_diss/86.

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This dissertation comprises two essays. The unifying theme is the evaluation of non-pecuniary (information or norm based messages) conservation programs. These types of policies are widely applied in developing and developed countries to promote conservation, however, their empirical evidence and their effectiveness are not well documented. Each chapter examines some methodological facets of the heterogeneity of non-pecuniary conservation programs and the reliability of non-experimental methods (program evaluation and econometric techniques) to evaluate treatment effects in the context of non-pecuniary conservation programs.

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Kettle, Stewart. "Encouraging payment for services : experimental and quasi-experimental evidence from developing countries." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702114.

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This thesis presents three studies which examine the decisions of individuals to pay for clean water and public services. The three impact evaluations, conducted in India and Guatemala, demonstrate that small changes to the way services are provided and presented to individuals can have a large impact on demand for them. The first chapter looks at whether tariffs discourage the use of NGO funded water quality projects in Telengana, India. The estimation strategy takes advantage of panel data from water purification plants where the tariff for 20 litres of water changed. In this setting, a one standard deviation decrease in price is estimated to cause a six percent increase in uptake. The second paper evaluates an adaptation to similar NGO water projects which increased the hours clean drinking water was accessible for, from 4 hours a day to 24. The results from the cluster randomised controlled trial show that the intervention increased demand for clean water by 22 percent. The final chapter presents findings from a nationwide randomised controlled trial in Guatemala that tested various letter reminders to promote tax compliance. The results show that whilst all letters increased the rate of declaration, only two of the letters, which were adapted using behavioural design, were successful at increasing the rate of payment and the average amount paid per letter received. These two letters more than tripled tax receipts compared to the no letter, or the original letter. The best performing letter, if sent to all taxpayers in the sample, would have generated an estimated US$757,837 of extra tax revenue in 11 weeks compared to no letter, over 35 times the cost of sending the letters. Overall, the thesis provides evidence that both economic and behavioural dimensions affect payment for clean water and tax, and so both must be considered when development practitioners and policy makers design 'customer facing' programmes. The methodology used in the three studies highlights that it is possible to rigorously evaluate such programmatic design decisions at low cost using experimental and quasi-experimental methods.

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Radulescu, Matei Ioan. "Experimental investigation of direct initiation of quasi-cylindrical detonations." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0017/MQ55026.pdf.

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Brooks, Laura. "Financial inclusion in South Africa: a quasi-experimental approach." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12186.

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Includes abstract.
Includes bibliographical references.
A regressive discontinuity was implemented on the National Income Dynamics Study data in order to assess the impact of an exogenous increase in income, simulated by pension eligibility on the composition of low-income individuals' financial portfolio composition. This was done to facilitate an investigation into the determinants of demand for various formal and informal financial instruments. It was confirmed that this substantial increase in income has a significant effect on the composition of poor individuals' financial portfolios. In addition, several trends emerged: most notable, a stark difference between the response of males and females to this increase in income. It was concluded that the approach of this study provides an effective way to heighten our understanding of the financial lives of the poor, and so to enhance our efforts to alleviate poverty and inequality in South Africa.

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Chen, Hsin-Ying. "A classroom quasi-experimental study to explore processing instruction." Thesis, University of York, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/583/.

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Processing Instruction (VanPatten, 1996, 2002a, 2004) contains two types of input activity: Referential activities, which force learners to focus on a form and its meaning, and affective activities, which contain multiple exemplars of the target form but focus learners' attention on the meaning of the sentences in which the form is embedded. To date, these two types of PI activity have been treated as one pedagogical technique, and no study has been empirically conducted to investigate the instructional impact of them individually. Furthermore, whether or not PI activities can promote learners’ implicit knowledge has not been addressed empirically. 120 12-year-old Taiwanese learners of L2 English were quasi-randomly assigned to four groups: Referential + Affective, Referential-only group, Affective-only and a Control. Pre, post and delayed post tests were administered to assess learning of the English 'ed' verb inflection. The measures included three tests aiming to elicit implicit knowledge: A timed grammaticality judgment test, an oral picture narration, and a short structured conversation. Following these tests, a self-report technique was employed to check whether or not learners drew on explicit knowledge. A gap-fill test without a time constraint and a written vocabulary test were also included to examine instructional impact. Findings suggest that referential activities are responsible for the learning gains observed and that the gains are held for up to six weeks after completion of the intervention. However, the issues regarding the role of affective activities in vocabulary learning and PI’s impact on implicit knowledge need further study. An implication of this study is that the claims of previous PI studies regarding the causative factors for its effectiveness require more refined exposition.

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Sanders, Sharon Parris. "Embedded strategies in mathematics vocabulary instruction a quasi-experimental study /." Connect to this title online, 2007. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1202500268/.

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Lasry, Nathaniel. "Understanding authentic learning : a quasi-experimental test of learning paradigms." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100642.

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This thesis is about "authentic learning": learning from life-like contexts. The construct derived from the social situated approach (Lave & Wenger, 1991), has surprisingly no counterpart in cognitive psychology. The first objective of this thesis is to develop a cognitive formulation of authentic learning from classical cognitive works and recent neuroscience studies findings. The characteristically cognitive feature posited is "n-coding", the encoding of multimodal input (verbal, visual, kinesthetic, social...). To test quasi-experimentally the effectiveness of this cognitive definition, a review of the instructional literature identified Collaborative Group Problem Solving (Heller et al., 1992) as an appropriate candidate for authentic instruction in physics.
The study design was comprised of one control and three treatment conditions varying in degrees of n-coding: (high, medium and low) while controlling for each treatment group's "participatory framework". All students were assessed before and after instruction on the FCI (Hestenes et al., 1992). Confidence levels were measured with each FCI question resulting in four new measures (gain in mean: confidence, right answer confidence, wrong answer confidence and weighted FCI). Procedural problem solving skills were measured through final exam grades.
Two empirical questions are posed. First, does increasing n-coding enhance learning? Second, since cognitive n-coding is unaccountable from the social perspective, does the situated perspective "subsume" the cognitive (Greeno, 1998)? Here, a quasi-experiment was not only used to test interventions but paradigm effectiveness, a methodological first.
Results shows that high and medium n-coding groups were significantly more effective than the situated low n-coding group (p=0.003) showing the effectiveness of increasing n-coding and refuting the claim that social approaches must subsume cognitive ones. No significant difference was found between high and medium n-coding groups (p=0.74) whereas all treatment groups differed from the control (p=0.0497), replicating findings on the effectiveness of non-traditional instruction (Hake, 1998).
Competing cognitive and social perspectives (Schoenfeld, 1999) may be better replaced by cross-paradigm symbioses such as importing authentic learning from situated approach into cognition. A model for reflecting on cross-scale symbioses is developed through the presence of self-similar patterns across scales (from micro-cognitive to macro-social). The fractal is put forward as a metaphor for the field of education and may serve to unify paradigms and yield optimal pictures of learning.

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Sellers, Leslie Dean. "Rising damp evaluation and treatment : a quasi-experimental case study." Thesis, University of Salford, 2017. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/43721/.

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The UK has a well-established industry involved in the treatment of rising damp. Yet, critics argue that rising damp is extremely rare and remedial damp proof course treatments unnecessary and ineffective. Additionally, evaporation from rising damp affected masonry is under-researched and opinions differ with respect to the effect that this moisture may have on the local environment. The aim of this research is to establish whether contemporary remedial damp proof course treatments are necessary and effective and if moisture affecting a damp wall is correlated with that in the environment. Due to the limitations of existing laboratory-based research in this area, a practice-based approach employing a novel methodology, blending case study and quasi-experimental methods, was chosen to assess, in a field setting, the component parts of the contemporary method of remedial damp proof course treatment, techniques of moisture measurement, evaporation, and environmental moisture. The study found that rising damp is a real phenomenon that warrants treatment and that the contemporary method of damp proofing, installed as it would be in a real world setting, provides effective control. In addition, it determined that sample analysis is the only reliable method of diagnosing rising damp, that evaporation from a rising damp affected wall cannot be measured, and only the hygroscopic moisture component of a damp wall displays correlation with the wider environment. A project of this type has not previously been undertaken. It makes an original contribution to existing theory, laboratory research, and practice by providing useful data with respect to common and novel techniques for the measurement of moisture and evaporation from masonry materials; valuable reassurance to property professionals, home owners, and other stakeholders regarding the phenomenon and treatment of rising damp; and through the development of its unique methodology a mechanism to facilitate future field studies in this area of practice.

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Kronback, Sune, and Carl Tervell. "Prehospital immobilization of lower limb fractures : - A quasi-experimental study." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-36061.

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Czaholi, Attila. "The effectiveness of oral corrective feedback in experimental and quasi-experimental studies : A systematic literature review." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104875.

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By exploring previous research, this systematic literature review aims to shed light on the effectiveness of oral corrective feedback practices by teachers to students on oral proficiency with the focus on recasts and prompts. This systematic literature review also intends to shed light on the effectiveness of recasts and prompts compared with each other. This study reports on the results of 13 experimental or quasi-experimental studies that measured the effectiveness of prompts and recasts on language acquisition and the effectiveness of prompts and recasts compared with each other. In those studies, outcome measures such as grammaticality judgement tasks, oral production tasks, and written production tasks were utilized. The target structures of the included studies were different morpho-syntactical and phonological structures. The accounted findings of this study show that recasts are effective at increasing students’ oral proficiency in seven of thirteen studies and not effective in six of 13 studies. The reported results also demonstrate that prompts are effective at improving students’ oral proficiency in eight of ten studies and ineffective in two of ten studies. In eight of ten studies in which the effectiveness of prompts and recasts are compared with each other, prompts are more effective than recasts. However, recasts are more effective than prompts in two of ten studies. The reported findings indicate that the effectiveness of corrective feedback in general on language acquisition is uncertain and that prompts might be effective. In addition, the accounted results suggest that the effectiveness of recasts on improving students’ oral proficiency is doubtful. Moreover, the reported findings of this study also suggest the higher degree of efficacy of prompts over recasts.

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Roach, Michael L. (Michael Louis). "Experimental investigation of tearing fracture in sheets under quasi-static loading." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33440.

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Thesis (Nav. E.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-46).
Although there has been interest in the behavior of metal plates under blast and projectile loading for many years, definitive open-source analysis has only been recently forthcoming. This analysis is most often in the form of scaled recreations of the dynamic blast event, or "live fire" tests. New developments in methods of recreating blast and projectile induced plate failure using a quasi-static approach provide possible, accurate, alternatives to the cumbersome and expensive live fire test. This research endeavors to develop an accurate, quasi-static method of recreating the petalling phase of blast and projectile failure in metal sheets, based on a modified trousers- type test. By using the trousers-type fracture test the overall plastic bending kinematics of the fractured petal is preserved, as well as the mixed mode (mode one and mode three) fracture. Through analytical and qualitative analysis, a testing apparatus to generate this trousers-type, plastic bending and mixed mode fracture was designed and machined. The apparatus was then used to test thin steel sheets of varying thickness (0.419 and 0.724mm) in order to validate the quasi-static method of recreating the petalling phase through a comparison with analytically derived results.
by Michael L. Roach.
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Hastings, Todd. "Nursing student attitudes toward mental illness| A quantitative quasi-experimental study." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3736711.

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Nursing students often harbor negative stereotypes and feel unknowledgeable and unprepared to work with mentally ill people. In addition, nursing students rarely choose the psychiatric specialty as a career option. A quantitative quasi-experimental study was conducted to examine nursing student feelings about engaging those with behavioral health problems. Over 300 nursing students in eight Bachelor of Science in Nursing professional nursing programs were surveyed on the first and last day of their program’s psychiatric mental health nursing course (the independent variable). A valid and reliable survey instrument was used to collect nursing student responses characterizing attitudes, impressions of knowledge and preparedness, and career interests relative to psychiatric nursing. This work was supported by the theoretical tenants of Labeling Theory, Benner’s Model, and Peplau’s Theory on Interpersonal Relations. Statistical Package for Social Sciences software was used for exploration of the data. Data examination included descriptive analysis and paired t tests of four component subscales identified by the survey tool authors which were associated with the research questions and research hypotheses in this study. The results indicated nursing students manifest negative attitudes and a moderate sense of knowledge of and preparedness for interacting with the mentally ill. In addition, nursing students had a low interest in behavioral health as a career path. However, significant improvements in all of these factors except the latter were observed at the end of the psychiatric mental health nursing course. Nurse educators may use the information generated from this project to modify psychiatric nursing courses for fostering improvement in student feelings about the mental health specialty.

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Dalston, Teresa. "Evaluating e-Training for public library staff: A quasi-experimental investigation." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12113/.

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A comparative evaluation framework of instructional interventions for implementation of online training for public library staff would enable a better understanding of how to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and efficacy of training in certain training environments. This dissertation describes a quasi-experimental study of a two-week, asynchronous online training course that was provided at four levels of instructional intervention to public library staff in the United States. The course content addressed the complex issues of difficult patron policy development and situational coping techniques. The objective of the study was to develop and demonstrate a theoretically grounded, evidence-based impact evaluation framework. The framework was used to assess the relative impact of an online course for public librarians at four levels of instructional intervention. The researcher investigated the relationships between the type of e-Training instructional interventions and the short- and long-term impacts on participants' knowledge, self-efficacy, and workplace performance. The study used a longitudinal, quasi-experimental design that included a pretest, posttest and three-month delayed posttest with follow-up survey. 194 participants completed all three phases of the study. The evaluation tools measured course content related knowledge and self-efficacy at all three phases (pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest) and assessed workplace application of training at 3-month follow-up. The results of this study contributed to evaluation theory and learning theory literature applied to the online learning environment and informed public library staff online training practices and evaluation methodologies.

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Dalston, Teresa R. Turner Philip M. "Evaluating e-training for public library staff a quasi-experimental investigation /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12113.

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Paz, Daniela. "Reading first literacy program : evidence from a quasi-experimental evaluation in Chile." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2017. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/145432.

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This study evaluates Reading First literacy program that aims to significantly reduce the reading comprehension gap of students from vulnerable contexts in Chile. The program has in its DNA to be scalable at a sustainable cost. The results from a quasi-experimental evaluation (propensity score matching and difference in differences) finds that the program has a positive impact of 0.4 standard deviations (S.D.) on reading comprehension and text production results after 1 year and of 0.37 S.D. after 2 years in management of language results. Students with the program were more likely to have favorable feelings towards reading (pleasure for reading questionnaire). These results show that an expansion of the program is cost-effective and would improve the reading comprehension results in the short term.

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Olofsson, Åke. "Phonemic awareness and learning to read : a longitudinal and quasi-experimental study." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för psykologi, 1985. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-100704.

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Phonemic awareness is the ability to attend to the formal, phonetic or phonemic, aspects of spoken language. Skill in analysis of speech sounds and synthesis of phonetic segments into real words has often been found to correlate with success in reading acquisition. The nature of this relationship was investigated by postulating a causal model for the effect of phonemic awareness in kindergarten on reading and spelling skill in the first school years. The quantitative implications of this model were estimated with path-analysis in a kindergarten - grade 3 passive observational study. In order to experimentally test the effect of phonemic awareness a 8 week training program in kindergarten was evaluated using a quasi- experimental design in field settings. The effects of this program were evaluated in kindergarten, in grade 1 and in grade 2. Methodological problems in evaluation research were discussed. The results from the quasi- experimental study was further elucidated applying structural equation modeling with latent variables (LISREL). Clear effects of the training program were found on phonemic awareness tasks in grade 1 and on spelling in grade 2. More subtle effects were found on reading and spelling of simple words in grade 1. No effect was found on rapid silent word decoding. The LISREL analysis was interpreted in favour of a model with phonemic awareness effecting phonological processing which in turn is essential for the early reading development. The results were interpreted as supporting an interactive-compensatory limited capacity model of reading. Phonemic awareness helps the child to understand the alphabetical principle and ensures the development of an effective system for representing written language. Trained children find it easier to learn spelling-sound relations.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Univ., härtill 5 uppsatser.

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Jensch, Graham. "The role of inferential confusion in social anxiety: a quasi-experimental study." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658856.

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Inferential confusion is a reasoning process observed in obsessive compulsive disorder (OeD) which is defined by a distrust of reality-based information in favour of imagined possibilities. Studies have shown inflated self-reported inferential confusion in mixed-anxiety populations. The current study hypothesised that individuals high in social anxiety (RSA) would be more influenced by possibilitybased information than those low in social anxiety (LSA). 1.2 DESIGN A quasi-experimental design was utilised. Participants completed the Inference Processes Task (IPT) that required them to make probability-based judgements (inferences) based upon possibility- and reality-based information for situations that typically trigger worries regarding social anxiety, OeD, and non-disorder based scenarios. Participants also completed self-report measures of social anxiety, inferential confusion, OeD symptoms, and general distress. 1.3 PARTICIPANTS On the basis of a self-report measure of social anxiety, participants were classified as either high (n = 102) or low (n = 68) in social anxiety. Participants were recruited using online advertisements on internet forums and social media websites.

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Graham, Stephen. "Quasi-Experimental Examination of Voluntary Disfigurement, Stigmatization, and the Behavioral Immune System." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10827563.

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Assuming the perspective of evolutionary psychology it was hypothesized that tattoo stigma is the result of evolved socially exclusionary mechanisms activated by heuristic cues signaling a potential threat of infectious disease. It was conjectured that perception of atypical morphology, like the discoloration associated with significant tattooing, would activate into working memory implicit associations linking tattooing with infectious disease, triggering an aversive reaction. Using a quantitative quasi-experimental approach, the study measured participant implicit associations between disease connoting concepts and the perception of images of tattooed people as compared with images of non-tattooed people. Implicit associations between disease connoting concepts and tattooing were measured using an Implicit Association Test. An assumption made by the IAT developers that people accomplish tasks faster and with greater accuracy when the tasks are based on well-established learned cognitive routines or associations that are the product of evolved adaptive mechanisms, as compared with unpracticed tasks. This study provides the first empirical test of a causal link between tattooing, disease threat management, and stigma. Findings indicate that a significant majority of the sample associated tattooing with infectious disease, this association is not affected by the participants having tattoos or expressing a positive or neutral attitude toward tattooed people. Given these findings, it is recommended that future research more broadly test the construct of voluntary disfigurement (e.g., body scaring, piercing, and “face painting”) which BIS theory predicts would be likely triggers for BIS reactions.

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MacLennan, Karolyn Marie. "The Effect of Treatment Integrity on Student Achievement: A Quasi-Experimental Study." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1279933719.

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Norward, Josephine. "A quasi-experimental analysis of black male homicide offenders and non-offenders." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1989. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3865.

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Castro, Marcelo Araújo. "Quasi-experimental estimates of fiscal spillovers and spatial interactions among Brazilian cities." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/16209.

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We use the Regression Discontinuity methodology (RDD) to estimate the causal effect of the Municipalities' Participation Fund (Fundo de Participação dos Municípios - FPM) received by a municipality on characteristics of bordering municipalities, considering a variety of topics: public finance, education, health, and election results. We explore the constitutional rule that generates discontinuities in the transfer according to population brackets. Our main contribution is to estimate separately and together the spillover and the direct effect of FPM, considering both neighboring municipalities or just one of them near the thresholds. Thus, we can better understand the interaction between neighboring municipalities when there is a correlation in the probability of participating in a public program. We show that the estimates of the direct effect of FPM on local spending decreases by about 20% when we control for the neighboring cities' FPM, which effect is generally positive, with the exception of spending on health and sanitation. We estimate a positive effect of FPM on test scores in a national exam and on school pass rates in neighboring municipalities and state public elementary school. On the other hand, the receipt of FPM by neighboring municipalities of small population reduces the provision of health goods and services in nearby larger cities, which may occur due to reduced demand for health services. The worsening of some global health indicators is an indication, however, that there may be coordination problems for mayors retain their spending on health. In fact, when we control for the margin of victory in municipal elections and consider only neighboring towns with mayors from different parties, the spillover effect is greater in magnitude, indicating that political incentives are important to explain the under provision in health services, by one hand, and the increase in the education goods provision, on the other hand. We also found a positive effect of FPM on votes for the party of the federal government in local and national elections, and much of this effect is explained by the spillover from neighboring cities' FPM, showing that cities more economic dependent on the federal government become the political support for that government. Finally, we found an ambiguous effect of the increased revenue due to the FPM on the electoral competition in municipal elections, with a fall in the first place victory margin and a reduction in the number of applicants, which may be explained by the rising of fixed costs in local campaigns.
Nós usamos a metodologia de Regressões em Descontinuidade (RDD) para estimar o efeito causal do Fundo de Participação dos Municípios (FPM) recebido por um município sobre características dos municípios vizinhos, considerando uma variedade de temas: finanças públicas, educação, saúde e resultados eleitorais. Nós exploramos a regra que gera uma variação exógena da transferência em munícipios próximos às descontinuidades no repasse do fundo de acordo com faixas de população. Nossa principal contribuição é estimar separadamente e em conjunto o efeito spillover e o efeito direto do FPM, considerando ambos municípios vizinhos ou apenas um deles próximos às mudanças de faixa. Dessa forma, conseguimos entender melhor a interação entre municípios vizinhos quando há uma correlação na probabilidade de receber uma transferência federal. Nós mostramos que a estimativa do efeito direto do FPM sobre os gastos locais diminui em cerca de 20% quando controlamos pelo spillover do vizinho, que em geral é positivo, com exceção dos gastos em saúde e saneamento. Nós estimamos um efeito positivo da transferência sobre notas na prova Brasil e taxas de aprovação escolares em municípios vizinhos e na rede estadual do ensino fundamental. Por outro lado, o recebimento de FPM por municípios vizinhos de pequena população reduz o provimento de bens e serviços de saúde em cidades próximas e maiores, o que pode ocorrer devido à redução da demanda por serviços de saúde. A piora de alguns indicadores globais de saúde é um indício, no entanto, de que podem existir problemas de coordenação para os prefeitos reterem seus gastos em saúde. De fato, quando controlamos pela margem de vitória nas eleições municipais e consideramos apenas cidades vizinhas com prefeitos de partido diferentes, o efeito spillover é maior em magnitude, o que indica que incentivos políticos são importantes para explicar a subprovisão de serviços em saúde, por um lado, e o aumento da provisão de bens em educação, por outro. Nós também constatamos um efeito positivo do FPM sobre votos para o partido do governo federal nas eleições municipais e nacionais, e grande parte desse efeito é explicado pelo spillover do FPM de cidades vizinhas, mostrando que cidades com dependência econômica do governo federal se tornam a base de sustentação e apoio político desse governo. Por fim, nós encontramos um efeito ambíguo do aumento de receita devido ao FPM sobre a competição eleitoral nas eleições municipais, com uma queda da margem de vitória do primeiro colocado e uma redução do número de candidatos, o que pode ser explicado pelo aumento do custo fixo das campanhas locais.

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Mason, Brenden James. "The Effects of Options Markets on the Underlying Markets: Quasi-Experimental Evidence." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/503097.

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Economics
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This dissertation consists of three essays in applied financial economics. The unifying theme is the use of financial regulation as quasi-experiments to understand the interrelationship between derivatives and the underlying assets. The first two essays use different quasi-experimental econometric techniques to answer the same research question: how does option listing affect the return volatility of the underlying stock? This question is difficult to answer empirically because being listed on an options exchange is not random. Volatility is one of the dimensions along which the options exchanges make their listing decisions. This selection bias confounds any causal effect that option listing may have. What is more, the options exchanges may list along unobservable dimensions. Such omitted variable bias can also confound any causal effect of option listing. My first essay overcomes these two biases by exploiting the exogenous variation in option listing that is created by the SEC-imposed option listing standards. Specifically, the SEC mandates that a stock must meet certain criteria in the underlying market before it can trade on an options exchange. For example, a stock needs to trade a total of 2.4 million shares over the previous 12 months before it can be listed. Since 2.4 million is an arbitrary number, stocks that are “just above” the 2.4 million threshold will be identical to stocks that are “just below” it, the sole difference being their probability of option listing. Accordingly, I use the 2.4 million threshold as an instrument for option listing in a fuzzy regression discontinuity design. I find that option listing causes a modest decrease in underlying volatility, a result that corroborates many previous empirical studies. My second essay attempts to estimate the effect of option listing for stocks that are “far away from” the 2.4 million threshold. I overcome the aforementioned omitted variable bias by fully exploiting the panel nature of the data. I control for the unobserved heterogeneity across stocks by implementing a two-way fixed effects model. Unlike most previous studies, I control for individual-level fixed effects at the firm level rather than at the industry level. My results show that option listing is associated with a decrease in volatility. Importantly, these results are only statistically significant in a model with firm-level fixed effects; they are insignificant with industry-level fixed effects. My third essay is a policy evaluation of the SEC’s Penny Pilot Program, a mandated decrease of the option tick size for various equity options classes. Several financial professionals claimed that this decrease would drive institutional investors out of the exchange-traded options market, channeling them into the opaque, over-the-counter (OTC) options market. I empirically test an implication of this hypothesis: if institutional investors have fled the exchange-traded options market for the OTC market, then it may take longer for information to be impounded into a stock’s price. Using the `price delay’ measure of Hou and Moskowitz (2005), I test whether stocks become less price efficient as a result of being included in the Penny Pilot Program. I perform this test using firm-level fixed effects on all classes that were included in the program. I confirm these results with synthetic control experiments for the classes included in Phase I of the Penny Pilot Program. Generally, I find no change in price efficiency of the underlying stocks, which suggests that the decrease in option tick size did not materially erode the price discovery that takes place in the exchange-traded equity options market. I also find evidence that the decrease in option tick size caused an increase in short selling for the piloted stocks.
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Degiorgio, Lisa. "Examining Distance Education in Teaching Clinical Counseling Skills to Rehabilitation Counselors-in-Training." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195630.

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This exploratory study was designed to examine counseling skill acquisition for Rehabilitation Counseling education students enrolled in a distance education Practicum I course. The course utilized interactive television (ITV), Desire 2 Learn (D2L), a course management system, and some formalized group meetings for curriculum delivery. Students were asked to provide two audio recordings that served as pre-test and post-test measures of counseling skills. Recordings were analyzed by two evaluators. In addition to the recordings, students completed two survey instruments, an initial demographic questionnaire and a survey of attitudes towards the use of technology in the course that was completed along with the post-test recording. A comparison of pre-test and post-test means on the audio recordings revealed no significant change in counseling skills for students enrolled in this course. There was an increase in the number of empathetic responses, clarifying statements, paraphrasing, questions and closing statements on the post-test recordings but a decrease in attending responses and opening statements. Survey findings indicated that students perceived distance education to be an effective use of their time and improved the quality of course interactions. Students also reported that technology made interacting with their peers difficult and somewhat impersonal. Approximately half of the students agreed that they were comfortable with the course technology. A majority to students indicated they would have preferred a traditional approach to learning counseling skills. These findings have implications for counseling programs currently utilizing ITV or webconferencing to deliver clinical skills courses. It may have broader implications for other clinical skills training programs delivering training via other distance education modalities.

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Pietrantuono, Giuseppe [Verfasser], and Thomas [Akademischer Betreuer] Gautschi. "The Value of Citizenship: Experimental and Quasi-experimental Evidence from Germany and Switzerland / Giuseppe Pietrantuono ; Betreuer: Thomas Gautschi." Mannheim : Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1122435940/34.

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Richardson, Tonia M. "Solution-Focused Brief Coaching as an Executive Coaching Intervention| A Quasi-experimental Study." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3569149.

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The purpose of the quasi-experimental study was to determine the effectiveness of Solution-Focused Brief Coaching as a specific intervention in executive coaching. The study used a pretest-posttest design with an experimental group and a control group. Six executives received six coaching sessions during this study. Twelve executives, serving as control subjects, did not receive coaching by any method. Measurement tools (the Working Alliance Inventory, the Goal Attainment Survey and the Satisfaction With Life Scale) provided quantitative outcome data to determine behavior, performance, and emotional change associated with use of SFBC (the independent variable). These measurement tools (the dependent variables) were administered to both groups before and after the 6-week coaching intervention. The WAI – C pretest showed significant differences between the groups suggesting that coaches perceived the working alliance of coached participants to increase to a significantly larger degree than the noncoached group. The SWLS pretest showed significant differences between the groups suggesting that the group that sought coaching had a lower satisfaction with life than the control group at the beginning of the coaching engagement. While the GAS did not produce statistically significant results there was a large effect size suggesting that a very clear difference exists between the two groups. The results of the study provided preliminary empirical support for use of SFBC as an executive-coaching intervention. Recommendations based on the study’s results include replication of the study with a larger sample, additional studies reflective of more rigorous research designs, and use of professional coaches in research studies.

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Wong, Wai-yi, and 黃慧儀. "An quasi-experimental study of oral presentation skills training for junior secondary students." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3196204X.

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Sloas, Stacey Bell. "The Impact of Peer-Led Diabetes Education| A Quasi Pre Post Experimental Study." Thesis, Arkansas State University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13812197.

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Type 2 diabetes is a chronic illness costing over $300 billion per year in the United States with an estimated 100 million individuals with diabetes or pre-diabetes. Complications due to diabetes place individuals at increased risk for heart attack, stroke, amputations, blindness, kidney failure, disability, and early death. Education has been shown to be effective in improving health behaviors that decrease complications due to diabetes. Common risk factors for development of diabetes are modifiable behaviors such as sedentary lifestyle and obesity.

A peer-led approach to diabetes education has the potential to overcome multiple barriers to receiving education. Peer-led diabetes education can provide education at low or no cost in communities where individuals feel welcomed and travel is minimized. Diabetes education has the potential to decrease disability, early death, and the economic costs of diabetes.

The purpose of this study was to determine if peer-led sessions on diabetes self-management impacted health behaviors, empowerment, and knowledge of diabetes. Four topic-driven educational sessions were provided for participants in Northeast Arkansas who had either a diagnosis of pre-diabetes or diabetes. Pre and post-questionnaires were used to assess changes in knowledge using the Revised Diabetes Knowledge Test, empowerment using the Diabetes Empowerment Scale - Short Form, and health behaviors.

A statistically significant difference was found in the empowerment scale with an increase in mean scores from 31.23 to 36.04. A paired samples t-test found a statistically significant difference in scores on Diabetes Knowledge Test, (t (25) = –2.54, p < .05). Significant changes in health behaviors were found for knowledge of A1C levels, the frequency of foot exams, and days of exercise per week.

Focus groups following intervention provided qualitative results indicating satisfaction with the peer-led model. In order to implement peer-led education, there is a need to develop improved strategies for recruitment. A peer-led model for diabetes education has potential to provide needed education.

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Dostálová, Kristýna. "On the demand and supply of local public goods : a quasi-experimental approach." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019REN1G003.

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L'objectif de cette thèse de doctorat est d'étudier l'adéquation entre l'offre de biens publics locaux et la demande des citoyens. D'un point de vue théorique, les modèles analysant la demande de service public, tel le modèle de l'électeur médian ou l'hypothèse de Meltzer et Richard, démontrent que les caractéristiques de l'électorat ainsi que ses préférences sont les principaux déterminants des choix publics. Les modèles analysant l'offre de service public concluent au contraire que c'est la composition du gouvernement (nombre de partis, idéologie des élus) qui joue un rôle décisif. Cette recherche a pour objet de faire le lien entre ces deux catégories d'explications, à travers une série d'essais empiriques utilisant une approche quasi-expérimentale, et se basant sur une analyse du secteur public local français et finlandais.L'analyse des dépenses de fonctionnement des départements français montre que les gouvernements ayant une majorité de sièges à gauche ne dépensent pas plus en aide sociale que leurs homologues à droite. Les niveaux de dépense dépendent au contraire du nombre d'usagers et de leur répartition entre les quatre risques que sont le chômage, l'aide à la famille, l'aide aux personnes handicapées et aux personnes âgées. Sur données finlandaises, l'approche quasi-expérimentale montre en moyenne qu'il n'y a pas de différence significative entre les dépenses des gouvernements majoritaires et celles des gouvernements minoritaires. La demande des citoyens semble donc jouer un rôle prédominant dans l'explication des niveaux de dépenses publiques locales pour ces deux pays
The aim of the PhD thesis is to study the demand and supply sides of local public good provision. Demand driven models, such as the median voter theorem or the Meltzer and Richard hypothesis, state that the characteristics and preferences of the electorate are the main forces driving public decisions. Models focusing on the supply side argue instead that the composition of governing bodies (e.g., number of parties, ideology of elected officials) is the key explanatory factor. The thesis seeks to shed light on the connection between the two categories of explanations, through a series of empirical essays, using a quasi-experimental approach to study the local public sector in France and Finland.The analysis of operating expenditures of the French Departments shows that left-wing governments do not spend more on social assistance than their right-wing counterparts. Spending levels depend instead on the number of welfare recipients and their type: children, unemployed, disabled and elderly people. For Finnish municipalities, the quasi-experimental approach indicates that there is no significant difference between the expenditures of majority governments and those of minority governments. The demand side, i.e., the electorate, thus seems to play an important role in explaining policy choices in the two countries

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Watanabe, Emerson Ferrell. "A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Effect of Experience Staging Techniques on Engagement." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7555.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of experience staging techniques (personalization through co-creation and multisensory stimuli) on engagement level. This study also explores the possible contribution of experience staging techniques as practical tools that recreation professionals can use to better engage participants in recreation activities and events. A 2-way univariate ANOVA revealed no significant relationship between the use of co-creative and multisensory stimulating techniques and engagement levels in participants (F (3,200) = .263, p = .826, partial Î·2 = .004). Practical applications for recreation professionals and further research opportunities are discussed.

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Mathes, Andrew R. "Experimental Analysis of an Advanced-Design, Quasi-Radial Diffuser Receiving an Oscillating Jet." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36982.

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Methods of experimental analysis of airflow through an advanced-design, quasi-radial diffuser receiving an oscillating jet induced by a rotating baffle were devised and performed. The initially unsteady flow was found to lose its unsteadiness as it progressed through the diffuser and exited into the atmosphere. Within the diffuser, regions of slow flow in the lee of ventilation holes exist due to entrainment. The addition of a convergence insert across from these holes increased flow speeds, but also deflected the flow farther away from the holes, aiding separation. The predominantly steady flow over a flat plate upon which the exiting flow impinged produced an asymmetric static pressure profile. This was probably due to the mechanism that set up the oscillations in the flow, the rotating baffle.
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Hart, Patricia Margaret. "Using Developmental Instruction in a Preservice Teacher Education Course: A Quasi-Experimental Study." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391690639.

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Chua, Kao-Ping. "Quasi-Experimental Evaluations of Pediatric Health Care: Clinical Practice Guidelines and Insurance Coverage." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467284.

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The underlying theme of this dissertation is the effects of clinical and federal policy on health, utilization, and expenditures among children and young adults. In Chapter 1, I evaluate the clinical and economic benefits of clinical practice guidelines recommending universal cerebrospinal fluid testing in the emergency department for febrile infants aged 29-56 days. Using a difference-in-differences approach and administrative data from 31 U.S. children’s hospitals, I find that these guidelines are not associated with better clinical outcomes or lower health care spending, suggesting that many families of older infants could be spared the stress associated with cerebrospinal fluid testing without harm. The optimal management of older febrile infants in the emergency department has been debated for decades, and results from this study have the potential to change clinical practice at the hospital level. In Chapter 2, I assess the impact of the Affordable Care Act dependent coverage provision on health care utilization, health, and health care expenditures among young adults aged 19-25 years. Using a difference-in-differences analysis of nationally representative data, I find that implementation of the provision was associated with improved self-reported health and improved financial protection against the costs of health care among young adults. These findings highlight the importance of continued efforts to expand insurance coverage in this population. In Chapter 3, I investigate whether insurance coverage loss drives differences in access and health care utilization between older adolescents and young adults with asthma. I find that young adults with asthma are less likely to have a usual source of care, to use outpatient care, and to fill asthma medication prescriptions compared with older adolescents with asthma. Differences in insurance coverage account for large proportions of these differences. In a longitudinal analysis, I also find that older adolescents with asthma who lose insurance coverage as they transition to young adulthood are less likely to have a usual source of care. Taken as a whole, these results suggest that insurance coverage plays a crucial role in ensuring access to care and encouraging optimal health care utilization patterns for adolescents and young adults with asthma.
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Kuo, Chia Lin. "A quasi-experimental study of formative peer assessment in an EFL writing classroom." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2863.

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The benefits of using formative peer assessment have been broadly recognized by educators. However, in the context of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching, research into the effectiveness of peer assessment has produced mixed results. One major focus of research is how training can influence the effectiveness of peer assessment. A number of case studies have reported positive outcomes using particular training methods, but there is relatively little research into the application of such training methods and their effects in ordinary EFL classes. This thesis reports a study of training in peer assessment in the context of a typical EFL class. The details of the training are explored in some depth, including evidence of its effects on the nature and quality of peer assessment and the reasons for those effects. A quasi-experiment was designed to investigate the effectiveness of the extensively discussed ‘Step Training’ proposed by Min. Data were collected in the form of students’ written feedback, essays, video recording, questionnaires and interviews. The nature of students’ feedback and the quality of their essays were explored. Classroom interactions were analysed and interpreted using socio-cultural theory. Analysis of the questionnaires revealed students’ attitude towards the training and perception of their capabilities in working on peer assessment. Student interview data was analysed thematically. The findings provide a complex picture of the peer assessment training. First, the ‘Step training’ appeared to lead to improvements in the quality of both essays and peer feedback. Secondly, analysis of the classroom discourse suggested that socio-cultural factors had both positive and negative effects on the students’ learning. Moreover, ANCOVA analysis of psychological features such as attitudes towards and perceptions of the peer assessment training suggested that the students were less influenced psychologically by the training. Finally, analysis of interviews identified students’ concerns about the design of the training course. In conclusion, it is suggested that for a typical EFL writing class, the effectiveness of a rigid training method such as ‘Step training’ should be reconsidered to take into account the influence of socio-cultural factors in classroom interaction. Rather than relying just on students’ end products to monitor the effectiveness of training, socio-cultural interaction should also be examined, as this is important in developing an identity as an effective peer assessor. Suggestions for improving the design of peer assessment training are provided.

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Hagerman, Thomas E. "A quasi-experimental study on the effects of Accelerated Reader at middle school /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095250.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-124). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Meehan, Terry. "A Quantitative Quasi-Experimental Study of an Online High School Mathematics Remediation Program." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2612.

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The local problem that drove this study is that a high school in an upper middle class suburban city in Pennsylvania wants to improve its student scores on its end-of-course Algebra 1 Keystone Exam. The purpose of this study was to conduct a quantitative, quasi-experimental assessment of an online high school mathematics remediation program to determine if the remediation program was successful in its endeavor to remediate students. This research study, informed by the self-efficacy and the behaviorist learning theories, attempted to determine whether students who (a) scored below proficient on the May algebra exam and were placed in the Math Lab course improved statistically significantly compared with the students who (b) scored below proficient on the May algebra exam and who retook the exam in January but were not placed in the Math Lab course. Using a convenience sample, an independent samples t test was performed on the difference scores (original Keystone Exam and retest) of 408 students. The study determined that the online remediation program did not increase student scores for the students at the Pennsylvania high school compared with students who were not in the remediation program. The second literature review and white paper provide six research-based recommendations for the SEPSD to improve the Math Lab course. The recommendations include eliminating the course, purchasing a different remediation program, or modify elements of the current program. The students in the SEPHS would benefit from the research with a better remediation program. The research based suggestions, once implemented, should lead to the improvement of mathematics achievement.

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Kluftinger, Benjamin Gregor. "An experimental study of the Quasi-Fermi level separations in quantum well solar cells." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/8246.

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Alpízar, Carlos Andrés. "Risk coping strategies and rural household production efficiency quasi-experimental evidence from El Salvador /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1180206697.

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Mühlig-Versen, Andrea [Verfasser]. "Personality development in older age : a quasi-experimental, longitudinal field study / Andrea Mühlig-Versen." Bremen : IRC-Library, Information Resource Center der Jacobs University Bremen, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1034984489/34.

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Berst, Mary Lynette. "Treating Trauma in Burn Victims Using the Community Resiliency Model| A Quasi-experimental Study." Thesis, Northcentral University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10092246.

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Psycho-physiological trauma theory postulates that trauma can cause nervous system dysregulation, which has not been considered with evidence-based treatments. Other models, including the community resiliency model, have focused on reducing nervous system dysregulation. This study used a comparison group in a pre-test post-test model to examine the difference between participants with post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms who did and did not receive model training. Eighteen adult subjects were non-randomly assigned to control and treatment groups. The frequency and severity of intrusive symptoms, avoidance/numbing symptoms, and hyperarousal symptoms were measured by the Davidson Trauma Scale. Data were collected at pre-treatment, immediately following treatment, and one week after treatment. Three separate mixed ANOVAs were run to assess the effect of CRM treatment over time. The dependent variables were derived from the Davidson Trauma Scale’s three subscales, Intrusive, Avoidance/Numbing, and Hyperarousal. Initial analyses revealed a significant main effect of time, but no main effect of treatment, across all three variables. However, a significant interaction was evident for all three subscales, warranting follow-up analyses. For all three dependent variables, the pretest means were significantly greater for the treatment group than for the control group. These differences may reflect the non-random assignment of participants to the control group.

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Belisle, Linsey Ann. "Over a Decade Later: A Quasi-Experimental Study of North Dakota’s Juvenile Drug Courts." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28626.

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Little is known about the long-term impact of juvenile drug court on recidivism. This study compares the adult recidivism rates among prior juvenile drug court participants against a comparison group of probated, but not drug courted juveniles. The study employed a twelve-year average follow up subsequent to participants in both groups reaching the age of majority (18). Outcomes examined included arrests, convictions, and both substance and violent convictions in adulthood. Logistic and linear regression models indicated no main effects of drug court into adulthood. However, gender appeared to be suppressing the effect of drug court on recidivism. Interaction terms indicated a vicious interaction with males in the drug court having slightly higher recidivism rates than comparison males and female drug court participants recording lower recidivism rates than comparison females. Some recommendations are made as far as modifying juvenile drug court based on these results.

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Alpizar, Carlos Andres. "Risk coping strategies and rural household production efficiency: quasi-experimental evidence from El Salvador." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1180206697.

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Lutula, Antonio. "Resisted Sprint Training in Swimming : A Quasi-Experimental Study on Swedish National Level Swimmers." Thesis, Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH, Institutionen för idrotts- och hälsovetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:gih:diva-5860.

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Aim The aim of this study was to ascertain the effect of resisted sprint training in swimming on maximal swimming velocity and performance characteristics. The aim was also to examine how maximal swimming velocity is related to maximal swim power and maximal dry-land power. Method Eighteen competitive national level swimmers (9 male and 9 female; age: 18.3 ± 2.3 years, body mass: 72 ± 8.3 kg, height: 177.2 ± 4.6 cm, mean ± SD) were recruited to this study. Subjects were assigned to either resisted sprint training (RST) or unresisted sprint training (UST). Sprint training was performed two times per week during 6 weeks as 8x15m with a 2min send-off interval. RST performed sprint training using individualized load corresponding 10% of maximum drag load (L10), UST performed sprint training with no added resistance. A test-battery including dry-land strength assessment; maximal strength (MxS) and explosive strength (ExS), a timed 25m front-crawl swim and in-water force-velocity profiling was performed prior and following the training intervention. Maximal swim power (Pmax), maximum drag load (F0), theoretical maximum velocity (v0) and slope of force-velocity curve (SFv) was computed though force-velocity profiling. Results No significant within group differences occurred in neither RST nor UST following the 6-week intervention period in: swimming velocity, MxS, ExS, Pmax, F0, v0, and SFv. Strong correlations were found between swimming velocity and MxS (r = 0.75), ExS (r =0.82) and Pmax (r = 0.92). Conclusion Resisted sprint training in swimming using L10 did in the present study not elicit any improvements in maximal swimming velocity or examined performance characteristics. Resisted sprint training does not appear to be a superior method of improving swimming performance compared to unresisted sprint training. MxS, ExS and Pmax can be used as robust predictors of swim performance, however only Pmax was found to be casually related to swimming velocity.

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Driessen, Emily. "A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MIDDLE LEVEL STUDENT ENGINEERING UNDERSTANDING PRE-AND POST-TREATMENT." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/stem_etds/11.

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This qualitative quasi-experimental study analyzed middle-level students’ understanding of engineering before and after instruction. Students from four teachers were examined. Before and after instruction, all students completed the Draw an Engineer Test (DAET) and the Views of Nature of Engineering (VNOE) survey. Additionally, sixteen students (eight girls and eight boys) from each group (Treatment and Comparison) were interviewed before and after instruction. Findings revealed that after instruction (1) many students viewed engineers as makers/builders/workers (just as they did pre-instruction), however, the percentage of students who listed engineers as inventors, designers, and creators increased; (2) fewer students from both groups noted they had heard about the engineering design process or had considered being; (3) the interviewed Treatment students were more knowledgeable about engineers than were the interviewed Comparison students. This study is important as it is one of the first studies to examine student understanding of engineering after receiving a science-based engineering design unit, and it found the total understanding to require improvement.

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Warden, Sandra Elizabeth. "Discharge information and the self-reported health of women following a hysterectomy." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16562/1/Sandra_Warden_Thesis.pdf.

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Aim: The aim of this study was to develop a targeted health information package for women to use specifically as a reference during their return to health following a hysterectomy and to subsequently test its usefulness. Method: A quasi-experimental design measured the effectiveness of this package in improving the health and satisfaction outcomes of women compared to those who received the standard information. Women undergoing a hysterectomy for benign reasons who were between the ages of 20 and 60 years were included. There were 55 participants recruited into the control group and 44 into the intervention group. Participants completed a self-administered questionnaire both prior to and 14-16 weeks post-surgery. Results: The study found that there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups for their self-reported health, the time taken to return to usual activities and the number of symptoms experienced after surgery. Clinical improvements, however, were noted in the intervention group. A statistically significant difference was found between the groups for the amount written information that they would have preferred for their recovery (X2 8.26 df2 p=0.011). Ninety percent (90%) of the women who received the intervention wanted the same amount of written information to take home whilst 40% of the control group would have preferred more written information. This indicated a positive effect from the intervention. An unexpected finding in this study was that almost 40% of both groups wanted more verbal information and discussion prior to discharge. Conclusion: A valuable aspect of this study was its usefulness in identifying the clinical importance of discussion as part of the discharge process. These findings will be important for health professionals to utilise in their clinical practice for women undergoing a hysterectomy.

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Warden, Sandra Elizabeth. "Discharge information and the self-reported health of women following a hysterectomy." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16562/.

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Aim: The aim of this study was to develop a targeted health information package for women to use specifically as a reference during their return to health following a hysterectomy and to subsequently test its usefulness. Method: A quasi-experimental design measured the effectiveness of this package in improving the health and satisfaction outcomes of women compared to those who received the standard information. Women undergoing a hysterectomy for benign reasons who were between the ages of 20 and 60 years were included. There were 55 participants recruited into the control group and 44 into the intervention group. Participants completed a self-administered questionnaire both prior to and 14-16 weeks post-surgery. Results: The study found that there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups for their self-reported health, the time taken to return to usual activities and the number of symptoms experienced after surgery. Clinical improvements, however, were noted in the intervention group. A statistically significant difference was found between the groups for the amount written information that they would have preferred for their recovery (X2 8.26 df2 p=0.011). Ninety percent (90%) of the women who received the intervention wanted the same amount of written information to take home whilst 40% of the control group would have preferred more written information. This indicated a positive effect from the intervention. An unexpected finding in this study was that almost 40% of both groups wanted more verbal information and discussion prior to discharge. Conclusion: A valuable aspect of this study was its usefulness in identifying the clinical importance of discussion as part of the discharge process. These findings will be important for health professionals to utilise in their clinical practice for women undergoing a hysterectomy.

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Scott, Cynthia Pineda. "Maximizing college pathways for urban youth a quasi-experimental study of a university-based partnership /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2010. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1997616091&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Geagon, Margot S. "Evaluating earnings management with derivatives and the use of accounting accruals: A quasi experimental approach." WALDEN UNIVERSITY, 2010. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3366971.

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Sloan, Stephanie Leigh. "Does Working for a Better Performing Boss Improve Subordinate Performance? A Longitudinal, Quasi-experimental Study." NCSU, 2007. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03222007-150340/.

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The current study examined the relationship between supervisor and subordinate performance, explored the impact of supervisor performance on subordinate performance and performance change over time, and investigated whether supervisor performance has a stronger impact on subordinate performance over time than initial subordinate performance has on supervisor performance over time. This study utilized a longitudinal, quasi-experimental design with multiple sources of measurement. Multisource managerial performance ratings from 2001 to 2003 were obtained from a large multinational technology firm. Subordinates and their bosses? performance ratings from different sources were investigated by correlational and multiple regression analyses. Separate analyses were conducted on a subset of the subordinates who experienced a change in supervisor between years one (2001) and two (2002) and another subset who did not experience change in supervisor over the three year study. The correlational and predictive analyses revealed that supervisor performance and change in supervisor performance did not relate to or predict the performance or performance change of subordinates at the middle management level. Change in supervisor performance, specifically when a supervisor is replaced by another supervisor with a different level of performance, did not predict change in subordinate performance concurrently or over time. Finally, neither initial supervisor performance nor initial subordinate performance differentially predicted later subordinate or supervisor performance over time.

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