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Murphy, Dan – Policy Futures in Education, 2014
In its analysis of data it collected in 2006, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) used a variety of statistical methods to arrive at the 'key findings' that school autonomy, school competition and the public posting of student achievement data were…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Educational Policy
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Lee, Beryl Chinghwa; Chern, Chiou-lan – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2011
This study aims to investigate whether English for Specific Purposes (ESP) reading relates to English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' identity and how they relate to each other if there is a link between the two. Via purposeful sampling, an experienced Taiwanese ESP reader in her 40s was recruited and received three life-story interviews.…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes, Reading Skills
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Parker, Richard I. – Behavior Therapy, 2006
There is need for objective and reliable single-case research (SCR) results in the movement toward evidence-based interventions (EBI), for inclusion in meta-analyses, and for funding accountability in clinical contexts. Yet SCR deals with data that often do not conform to parametric data assumptions and that yield results of low reliability. A…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Research Design, Intervention, Correlation