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Steele, Jennifer L.; Murnane, Richard J.; Willett, John B. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
This study capitalizes on a natural experiment that occurred in California between 2000 and 2002. In those years, the state offered a competitively allocated $20,000 incentive called the Governor's Teaching Fellowship (GTF) aimed at attracting academically talented, novice teachers to low-performing schools and retaining them in those schools for…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Incentives, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Recruitment
Bookstein, Abraham – 1982
Recently considerable attention has been given in the online information retrieval literature to techniques for producing a weighted output of documents in response to a request. One approach tries to maintain the form of and relationships among requests as they appear in current Boolean logic-based systems, while extending it to permit a weighted…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Information Retrieval, Online Systems, Probability
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Stern, Hal S. – Psychological Methods, 2005
I. Klugkist, O. Laudy, and H. Hoijtink (2005) presented a Bayesian approach to analysis of variance models with inequality constraints. Constraints may play 2 distinct roles in data analysis. They may represent prior information that allows more precise inferences regarding parameter values, or they may describe a theory to be judged against the…
Descriptors: Probability, Inferences, Bayesian Statistics, Data Analysis
Manus, Lee Aura; Zipser, Dean – 1977
An interdisciplinary course in problem solving, entitled "patterns of problem solving," and its unique peer program offered at the University of California, Los Angeles, are described. The emphasis in the subject matter and approach is to expose the student to the wide range of alternative problem solving techniques and to enable the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Course Descriptions