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Mark W. Lipsey; Christina Weiland; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Sandra Jo Wilson; Kerry G. Hofer – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
Much of the currently available evidence on the causal effects of public prekindergarten programs on school readiness outcomes comes from studies that use a regression-discontinuity design (RDD) with the age cutoff to enter a program in a given year as the basis for assignment to treatment and control conditions. Because the RDD has high internal…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, School Readiness, School Entrance Age
Achilles, C. M.; Lintz, M. N. – 1986
Researchers conducted surveys of public attitudes in two Tennessee school systems in 1984-85 and 1985-86. Although interested in the survey results, one purpose of the researchers was to determine some inexpensive and relatively simple survey procedures. The researchers sought--through several pilot studies--to identify an efficient, parsimonious…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Community Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Opinion