The PR2OVE-IT website is divided into five (5) major categories for searching and viewing information about articles:
Interventions This category provides information about the different instructional practices used in engineering education. It is divided into four subcategories, which each contain numerous items or practices: Use of Student Retention Interventions, Use of Assessment Strategies, Use of Educational Technologies, and Use of Specific Teaching/Learning Techniques.
Subject/Content Area This category captures data on the subject, content, and/or context of the learning environment in which the intervention took place. Items in this category are limited to overarching knowledge areas. Specific courses and course titles are not included. Many articles were coded to more than one category and many were coded to more than one item within a category. The category is divided into seven major subcategories: Computing major, Engineering major, Engineering fundamentals, Design courses or Laboratory courses, Basic sciences, Social sciences, and Humanities.
Study Characteristics This category provides basic information about each study. It answers the questions Who (grade Level(s), Population, Sample size), Where (Location of the study, Type of institution, Locus of application), and How (Theory, Nature of the research, Duration of the intervention, Length of the study, Social arrangement).
Evaluation This category provides information on the method(s) used to evaluate the impact or efficacy of the intervention. Because the methods used to evaluate an intervention vary by type of intervention, the category is divided in to three distinct subcategories by type of intervention.
Outcomes This category provides three pieces of information on the type of outcome, the nature of the intervention's impact on student performance (performance enhanced, performance not enhanced, performance declined, inconclusive), and a verbatim statement of the main result(s).
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