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Hott, Brittany L.; Flores, Margaret M.; Morano, Stephanie; Randolph, Kathleen M.; Peltier, Corey – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2023
This article, part of the "Learning Disability Quarterly" special series dedicated to single-case research design (SCRD), summarizes the review process and outlines how to provide high-quality SCRD study manuscript reviews. We offer recommendations for the entirety of the review process, including accepting the role of reviewer,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Standards, Evidence, Reliability
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Barra, Cristian; Zotti, Roberto – Tertiary Education and Management, 2017
The main purpose of the paper is to estimate the efficiency of a big public university in Italy using individual student-level data, modeling exogenous variables in human capital formation through a heteroscedastic stochastic frontier approach. Specifically, a production function for tertiary education has been estimated with emphasis on…
Descriptors: Efficiency, School Statistics, Student Records, Information Utilization
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Jamil, Tahira; Marsman, Maarten; Ly, Alexander; Morey, Richard D.; Wagenmakers, Eric-Jan – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
In 1881, Donald MacAlister posed a problem in the "Educational Times" that remains relevant today. The problem centers on the statistical evidence for the effectiveness of a treatment based on a comparison between two proportions. A brief historical sketch is followed by a discussion of two default Bayesian solutions, one based on a…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Evidence, Comparative Analysis, Problem Solving
Shores, Kenneth; Steinberg, Matthew P. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2017
The Great Recession was the most severe economic downturn in the United States since the Great Depression. Using newly available population-level achievement data from the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA), we estimate the impact of the Great Recession on the math and English language arts (ELA) achievement of all grade 3-8 students in the…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Academic Achievement, Language Arts, Mathematics Achievement
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McFarland, Joel; Stark, Patrick; Cui, Jiashan – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
Dropping out of high school is related to a number of negative outcomes. For example, the median income of persons ages 18 through 67 who had not completed high school was roughly $26,000 in 2013. By comparison, the median income of persons ages 18 through 67 who completed their education with at least a high school credential (i.e., a regular…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, High School Graduates, Dropout Rate