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Cautions about Inferences from International Assessments: The Case of PISA 2009
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Ercikan, Kadriye; Roth, Wolff-Michael; Asil, Mustafa – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background/Context: Two key uses of international assessments of achievement have been (a) comparing country performances for identifying the countries with the best education systems and (2) generating insights about effective policy and practice strategies that are associated with higher learning outcomes. Do country rankings really reflect the…
Descriptors: Inferences, International Education, International Studies, Case Studies
The Role of Involvement and Use in Multisite Evaluations
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Lawrenz, Frances; King, Jean A.; Ooms, Ann – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
A cross-case analysis of four National Science Foundation (NSF) case studies identified both unique details and common themes related to promoting the use and influence of multisite evaluations. The analysis provided evidence of diverse evaluation use by stakeholders and suggested that people taking part in the multisite evaluations perceived…
Descriptors: Role Perception, Participation, Case Studies, Program Evaluation
Playing with the Stakes: A Consideration of an Aspect of the Social Context of a Gatekeeping Writing Assessment
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Baker, Beverly A. – Assessing Writing, 2010
In high-stakes writing assessments, rater training in the use of a rating scale does not eliminate variability in grade attribution. This realisation has been accompanied by research that explores possible sources of rater variability, such as rater background or rating scale type. However, there has been little consideration thus far of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Testing
Re-Assessing Poverty Dynamics and State Protections in Britain and the US: The Role of Measurement Error
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Worts, Diana; Sacker, Amanda; McDonough, Peggy – Social Indicators Research, 2010
This paper addresses a key methodological challenge in the modeling of individual poverty dynamics--the influence of measurement error. Taking the US and Britain as case studies and building on recent research that uses latent Markov models to reduce bias, we examine how measurement error can affect a range of important poverty estimates. Our data…
Descriptors: Poverty, Measurement, Error of Measurement, Probability
When Control Groups Do Not Exist: Program Evaluation without a Net.
Clark, Sheldon B.; And Others – 1991
Suggestions, based on the experience of researchers at Oak Ridge (Tennessee) Associated Universities (ORAU), are offered on how evaluations in which true experimental designs are not possible can be designed for meaningful comparison. The ORAU conducts evaluation and assessment studies of educational programs intended to explore some aspect of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Databases
Comparing and Contrasting the National Research Council Report "On Evaluating Curricular Effectiveness" with the What Works Clearinghouse Approach
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Confrey, Jere – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2006
This article summarizes the findings of the National Research Council (NRC) report "On Evaluating Curricular Effectiveness" and examines the reviews in middle grades mathematics undertaken by the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC). The NRC report reviewed and assessed 147 key evaluations of 13 National Science Foundation-supported K-12 mathematics…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Quasiexperimental Design, Content Analysis