What Is an Exemplary Program, and Why Should Anyone Care? A Reaction to Slavin and Klein.

Pogrow, Stanley

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Publication Date: 1998

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What Is an Exemplary Program, and Why Should Anyone Care? A Reaction to Slavin and Klein.

Pogrow, Stanley

Educational Researcher, v27 n7 p22-29 Oct 1998

Explores issues in evaluating exemplary programs, including the measurement of the degree to which the program is exemplary or promising. Suggests that comparison (control) group analysis can mislead researchers about the effectiveness of a program and suggests the use of gain scores to identify exemplary programs. (SLD)

Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Control Groups, Evaluation Methods, Experimental Groups, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Research Methodology

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Language: English

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