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Thiem, Alrik – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
The search for necessary and sufficient causes of some outcome of interest, referred to as "configurational comparative research," has long been one of the main preoccupations of evaluation scholars and practitioners. However, only the last three decades have witnessed the evolution of a set of formal methods that are sufficiently…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Comparative Analysis, Tutorial Programs
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Naglieri, Jack A.; Ford, Donna Y. – Roeper Review, 2015
Black and Hispanic students are undeniably underidentified as gifted and underrepresented in gifted education. The underrepresentation of the two largest groups of "minority" students is long-standing, dating several decades, and is a serious area of contention. Most debates focus on the efficacy of traditional intelligence tests with…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Nonverbal Ability, Ability, Ability Identification
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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
Rice, Jennifer King – National Education Policy Center, 2012
Schools and school systems throughout the nation are increasingly experimenting with using various instructional technologies to improve productivity and decrease costs, but evidence on both the effectiveness and the costs of education technology is limited. A recent report published by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute sets out to describe "the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Online Courses
Marjanovic, Sonja; Hanney, Stephen; Wooding, Steven – RAND Corporation, 2009
This report critically examines studies of how scientific research drives innovation which is then translated into socio-economic benefits. It focuses on research evaluation insights that are relevant not only to the academic community, but also to policymakers and evaluation practitioners--and particularly to biomedical and health research…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Evaluation Research, Research and Development, Research Reports
Miron, Gary; Applegate, Brooks – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2009
The Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University conducted a large-scale analysis of the impact of charter schools on student performance. The center's data covered 65-70% of the nation's charter schools. Although results varied by state, 17% of the charter school students have significantly higher math results than …
Descriptors: Evidence, Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, Program Effectiveness
Reardon, Sean F. – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2009
"How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement" estimates the effects on student achievement of attending a New York City charter school rather than a traditional public school and investigates the characteristics of charter schools associated with the most positive effects on achievement. Because the report relies on an…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating
Caison, Amy L.; Baker, Becca A. – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2007
The lack of consensus among researchers in defining the focal construct of rurality has led to contradictory conclusions of whether or not a rural-urban performance gap exists in higher education. Compounding this problem are the changing definitions of rural and urban, even among governmental agencies. Thus, this study used two different…
Descriptors: Definitions, Institutional Research, Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis
Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2009
Global economic transformations have never been as dramatic as in the twentieth century. Most countries have experienced radical changes in the standards of income per capita, technology, fertility, mortality, income inequality and the extent of democracy in the course of the past century. It is the goal of many disciplines--economics, history,…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Attainment, Demography, Global Approach
Cobb, Casey D. – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2009
The study under review is the second-year evaluation report of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), a publicly funded voucher program that allows low-income students in Milwaukee to attend secular and religious private schools in that city. Its primary finding is that there were no overall statistically significant differences in…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Research Methodology, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
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McClintock, Charles; Greene, Jennifer – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1985
A between method triangulation strategy was used to evaluate a process for long-range program planning. One study team conducted interviews and the other used a mail questionnaire. The resulting problems in coordination between teams are discussed. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cooperation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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Veugelers, Reinhilde – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2005
Since the use of bibliometric instruments has grown and will continue to grow in the future, the quality, availability, and accessibility of data on publications and citations is of tantamount importance. But equally important is a correct use of the data. This means that an important task of the bibliometric field is to highlight not only what…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Bibliometrics, Test Validity, Economics
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Katz, J. Sylvan – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2005
This article presents the author's critique of Anthony F. J. van Raan's article titled, "Measurement of Central Aspects of Scientific Research: Performance, Interdisciplinarity, Structure." van Raan makes an excellent case for using bibliometric data to measure some central aspects of scientific research and to construct indicators of…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Medical Research, Peer Evaluation, Foreign Countries
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Feller, Irwin – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2005
This article presents the author's critique of "Measurement of Central Aspects of Scientific Research: Performance, Interdisciplinarity, Structure," by Anthony F. J. van Raan. The author states that van Raan's article provides an excellent, if tightly compressed, introduction to key findings and innovative methods of the accumulating and…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Scientific Research, Citation Analysis, Researchers
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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
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