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Bloom, Howard S.; Porter, Kristin E. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
In recent years, the regression discontinuity design (RDD) has gained widespread recognition as a quasi-experimental method that when used correctly, can produce internally valid estimates of causal effects of a treatment, a program or an intervention (hereafter referred to as treatment effects). In an RDD study, subjects or groups of subjects…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Research Design, Computation, Generalizability Theory
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Garet, Michael S.; Cronen, Stephanie; Eaton, Marian; Kurki, Anja; Ludwig, Meredith; Jones, Wehmah; Uekawa, Kazuaki; Falk, Audrey; Bloom, Howard S.; Doolittle, Fred; Zhu, Pei; Sztejnberg, Laura – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2008
To help states and districts make informed decisions about the professional development (PD) they implement to improve reading instruction, the U.S. Department of Education commissioned the Early Reading PD Interventions Study to examine the impact of two research-based PD interventions for reading instruction: (1) a content-focused teacher…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Reading Instruction, Professional Development, Intervention