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Download full textHahn, Andrew – 1992
This Digest argues that management factors are central to youth program successes and failures and that these factor have been ignored in research on youth programs. Instead, the Digest notes that research and evaluation of programs have focused on the following: (1) whether the right audience is served; (2) whether to make incremental…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrative Problems, Disadvantaged Youth, Program Administration
Thompson, Bruce – 1995
The research literature provides important guidance to counselors working to keep abreast of the latest thinking regarding best practices and recently developed counseling tools. The purpose of this digest is to highlight a few errors that seem to recur within the literature, and to provide some helpful references that further explore these…
Descriptors: Counseling, Educational Researchers, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Daniel, Larry G. – 1996
Fred N. Kerlinger has been hailed as having contributed to the transformation of the way that behavioral scientists and educators read research reports, design and execute research, and draw conclusions about research. In 1960 he introduced the notion that educational research is fraught with mythology. Three of the research myths that he…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Design, Research Methodology, Research Problems
Helberg, Clay – 1996
Abuses and misuses of statistics are frequent. This digest attempts to warn against these in three broad classes of pitfalls: sources of bias, errors of methodology, and misinterpretation of results. Sources of bias are conditions or circumstances that affect the external validity of statistical results. In order for a researcher to make…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Error of Measurement
Cohen, Arthur M.; Brawer, Florence B. – 1996
Community colleges generally conduct little research. Further, there is no generally accepted national research agenda for community colleges, no consistently funded national agency charged with studying the institutions as unique entities, and few educational researchers directing their attention toward them. The research that is undertaken on…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Educational Research
Baker, Amy J. L.; Soden, Laura M. – 1998
Most practitioners and researchers support the educational policy direction of increased parent involvement, but few agree about what constitutes effective involvement. This digest, based on a critical evaluation of over 200 research studies, briefly reviews findings from parent involvement research to date, discusses their validity and utility,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews
