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Direct linkDavis, Devora H.; Raymond, Margaret E. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
Two quasi-experimental methods--fixed effects (FE) and virtual control records (VCR)--were used to measure charter schooling in 14 states and two districts. The new VCR method uses all available observable charter student characteristics and prior performance to create a composite comparison record. A head-to-head comparison of the FE and VCR…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Effectiveness, Policy Analysis, Educational Experience
Keane, Elaine – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
Equality and quality in higher education (HE) are frequently juxtaposed in the literature. This paper presents evidence to contest deficit assumptions about widening participation, particularly the belief that entering HE with "non-traditional" entry qualifications lowers standards. Drawing on a three-year constructivist grounded theory…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Educational Environment
Shiohata, Mariko; Pryor, John – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2008
This paper investigates the learning of young people involved in learning a trade in Senegal, West Africa. Fieldwork took place at two contrasting sites, one a workshop where young men were apprenticed to a tailor and the other a vocational training centre where young women were also learning tailoring. The research addresses the relationship…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience, Vocational Education
Download full textWard, Chris; Yates, Dan; Song, Joon – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
This study examined the extent to which student engagement is associated with a traditional assessment of student knowledge. In this study, ETS Business Major Field Test (MFT) scores were compared to student's self-reported survey responses to specific questions on the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). Areas of the NSSE survey such as…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Learner Engagement, Business, Business Skills
