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Download full textLoeb, Susanna; Dynarski, Susan; McFarland, Daniel; Morris, Pamela; Reardon, Sean; Reber, Sarah – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2017
Whether the goal is to identify and describe trends and variation in populations, create new measures of key phenomena, or describe samples in studies aimed at identifying causal effects, description plays a critical role in the scientific process in general and education research in particular. Descriptive analysis identifies patterns in data to…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Educational Research, Scientific Methodology, Scientific Research
Direct linkTyson, William – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
This article is written for scholars, researchers, and academic leaders who have a passion to share their knowledge outside the classroom, laboratory, or institution. They want to make a difference and believe that the information they possess and ideas they have to offer have a public importance. Based on his book "Pitch Perfect:…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Researchers, Higher Education, Leadership
