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Download full textReardon, Sean F. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
Instrumental variable estimators hold the promise of enabling researchers to estimate the effects of educational treatments that are not (or cannot be) randomly assigned but that may be affected by randomly assigned interventions. Examples of the use of instrumental variables in such cases are increasingly common in educational and social science…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Least Squares Statistics, Computation, Correlation
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Direct linkTimmons, Vianne; Ostridge, Randy – McGill Journal of Education, 2009
Data analysis is critical to educational planning. Determining the number of school leavers is crucial for a school board when planning for interventions and supports. In researching the number of early school leavers in the province of Prince Edward Island, the method in which the data were reported affected the rates. Two critical considerations…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Dropouts, Data Analysis, Boards of Education
