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Wilde, Elizabeth Ty; Hollister, Robinson – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2002
In this study we test the performance of some nonexperimental estimators of impacts applied to an educational intervention--reduction in class size--where achievement test scores were the outcome. We compare the nonexperimental estimates of the impacts to "true impact" estimates provided by a random-assignment design used to assess the…
Descriptors: Computation, Outcome Measures, Achievement Tests, Scores