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Direct linkViadero, Debra – Education Week, 2008
As value-added research designs gain in popularity and undergo increasing scrutiny, experts are beginning to wave cautionary flags about how best to make use of them in education. Value-added techniques for measuring student achievement appeal to administrators and policymakers at all levels of education because they quantify the gains that…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Academic Achievement, Researchers, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedParker, Amy T. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2009
Persons who are deaf-blind represent a heterogeneous, low-incidence population of children and adults who, at some point in life, regardless of the presence of additional disabilities, may benefit from formal orientation and mobility (O&M) instruction. Current national policies, such as the No Child Left Behind Act, which emphasize that…
Descriptors: Intervention, Visual Impairments, Federal Legislation, Deafness
Cook, Bryan G.; Tankersley, Melody; Cook, Lysandra; Landrum, Timothy J. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2008
A major tenet of both the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act is the identification and use of evidence-based practices, or those instructional techniques shown by research as most likely to improve student outcomes meaningfully. However, much confusion exists regarding the meaning and potential…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Disabilities, Special Education, Evidence
Download full textMayer, Diane E. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2006
Discussions about appropriate methods for education research have escalated in the wake of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 and related changes to federal policies for educational research and its funding. This legislation highlights the importance of "scientifically-based research" and in particular foregrounds the use of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Research, Federal Legislation, Politics of Education
McCardle, Peggy; Chhabra, Vinita – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
When the editors of The Voice of Evidence in Reading Research, Ms. McCardle and Ms. Chhabra, decided to edit a book and to invite authors to contribute to it, they wanted it to be a book for teachers. As stated in the first chapter, their motivation was to empower teachers to judge research worthiness for themselves. They feel that it is important…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Intervention, Identification, Reading Instruction
van Kraayenoord, Christina E. – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2006
In this address, the author examines what it means when one uses phrases like "evidence-based practices" and "evidence-based policies." She suggests that there is a need to re-think the meanings attached to these terms and she presents a rebuttal of the reliance on a single conceptualisation of evidence. The author then argues…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Special Education
Agodini, Roberto; Dynarski, Mark; Honey, Margaret; Levin, Douglas – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2003
The No Child Left Behind Act (P.L. 107-110) called for the U.S. Department of Education to carry out a national study of the effectiveness of educational technology. With computers becoming ubiquitous in American schools, and purchases of hardware and software now substantial expenses for school districts, whether funding is supporting effective…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Research Methodology
