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Necessary but Not Sufficient? Youth Responses to Localised Returns to Education in Australia
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Biddle, Nicholas – Education Economics, 2013
In this paper, the 2001 Australian Census is used to estimate predicted net benefits of education at a small geographic level. These are then linked to youth in the areas to test the associations with high school participation. This is done separately for Indigenous youth, a population sub-group with historically low levels of education…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Cost Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Educational Benefits
What Constitutes Legitimate Causal Linking?
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Baird, Jo-Anne – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2010
Newton's article (2010) makes three main contributions to the literature. First, it is transatlantic, bringing together literatures that have been dealing with similar problems, using sometimes different methods and certainly with distinctive educational, cultural perspectives. He points out that neither of these literatures has all of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictive Validity, Standards, Ethics
What Dictates the Meaning of Test Linking? A Reaction to "Thinking about Linking"
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von Davier, Alina A. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2010
The article "Thinking About Linking" by Newton (2010) presents a novel philosophical perspective on the way that educational assessments should be linked. Newton starts by describing the linking framework as it was characterized in various publications and identifies a cross-cultural dimension in the definitions and uses of test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
Comparison of Methods for Long-Range Assessment in Education
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Bruno, James E. – Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1975
Compares the accuracy of various student test score projection techniques, including idiographic analysis, standard score method, regression analysis, and a differential equation growth model. Concludes with an overview of the problems of projecting student test scores and suggests a stochastic procedure based on Bayesian analysis for educational…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Models, Prediction
Correlations Between and Within the Apgar Test, Pre-Kindergarten Assessment and Kindergarten Performance.
Williams, Doris K. – 1978
This longitudinal study examined the relationship of the physical-neurological conditions of infants at one minute after birth to mental and motor development at prekindergarten and kindergarten levels. Subjects were 44 children, 16 males and 28 females, born in 1970 in the same hospital. Neonatal physical status one minute after birth was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Correlation, Early Childhood Education, Educational Assessment
Development of Procedures for Assessing the Impact of Vocational Education Research and Development on Vocational Education (Project IMPACT). Volume 8--A Field Study of Predicting Impact of Research and Development Projects in Vocational and Technical Education.
Malhorta, Man Mohanlal – 1980
As part of Project IMPACT's effort to identify and develop procedures for complying with the impact requirements of Public Law 94-482, a field study was conducted to identify and validate variables and their order of importance in predicting and evaluating impact of research and development (R&D) projects in vocational and technical education.…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Research