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Tipton, Elizabeth; Olsen, Robert B. – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2022
This guide will help researchers design and implement impact studies in education so that the findings are more generalizable to the study's target population. Guidance is provided on key steps that researchers can take, including defining the target population, selecting a sample of schools--and replacement schools, when needed--managing school…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Evaluators, Educational Researchers, Educational Research
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Brunner, Martin; Keller, Lena; Stallasch, Sophie E.; Kretschmann, Julia; Hasl, Andrea; Preckel, Franzis; Lüdtke, Oliver; Hedges, Larry V. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2023
Descriptive analyses of socially important or theoretically interesting phenomena and trends are a vital component of research in the behavioral, social, economic, and health sciences. Such analyses yield reliable results when using representative individual participant data (IPD) from studies with complex survey designs, including educational…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Surveys, Research Design, Educational Research
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2018
Underlying all What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) products are WWC Study Review Guides, which are intended for use by WWC certified reviewers to assess studies against the WWC evidence standards. As part of an ongoing effort to increase transparency, promote collaboration, and encourage widespread use of the WWC standards, the Institute of Education…
Descriptors: Guides, Research Design, Research Methodology, Program Evaluation
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2016
This document provides step-by-step instructions on how to complete the Study Review Guide (SRG, Version S3, V2) for single-case designs (SCDs). Reviewers will complete an SRG for every What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) review. A completed SRG should be a reviewer's independent assessment of the study, relative to the criteria specified in the review…
Descriptors: Guides, Research Design, Research Methodology, Program Evaluation
Zhu, Pei; Jacob, Robin; Bloom, Howard; Xu, Zeyu – MDRC, 2011
This paper provides practical guidance for researchers who are designing and analyzing studies that randomize schools--which comprise three levels of clustering (students in classrooms in schools)--to measure intervention effects on student academic outcomes when information on the middle level (classrooms) is missing. This situation arises…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Achievement, Research Methodology, Research Design
OECD Publishing, 2014
The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will establish technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the survey design and implementation processes of PIAAC yield high-quality and internationally comparable data. This document provides a revised version of the technical standards and guidelines originally…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence
Fan, Xitao; Wang, Lin – 1999
The popularity of sample surveys in evaluation and research makes it necessary for consumers to tell a good survey from a poor one. Several sources were identified that gave advice on how to evaluate a sample design used in a survey study. The sources are either too limited or too extensive to be useful practically. The purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Research Design, Research Methodology, Sampling
Elliot, Brownlee – CEDR Quarterly, 1980
This article presents a fairly quick, easy way to decide what size sample is needed for a survey, given a desired level of confidence and degree of accuracy. The method proposed will work on any multiple response instrument. A technical mathematical explanation is also included. (GK)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Research Design, Sampling, Statistical Analysis
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Friedman, Herbert – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1982
A concise table is presented based on a general measure of magnitude of effect which allows direct determinations of statistical power over a practical range of values and alpha levels. The table also facilitates the setting of the research sample size needed to provide a given degree of power. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Hypothesis Testing, Power (Statistics), Research Design, Sampling
Boser, Judith A. – 1988
This paper helps researchers develop criteria for conducting surveys. Cost considerations frame the paper's suggestions. Specifically, the text advises that researchers consider the human and material resources needed, type of survey instrument, medium for conducting the survey (mail, telephone, personal interview, etc.), data analysis…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Analysis, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
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Greene, David; David, Jane L. – Evaluation and Program Planning: An International Journal, 1984
The main features of a multiple site, structured case study design are presented. The nature of explanatory patterns, how case study investigators pursue and recognize valid patterns, and how an analyst can apply the same logic to cross-site analysis are discussed. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Generalization, Research Design
Suskie, Linda A. – 1988
A guide to survey research is presented for both novice and experienced researchers. Steps of the survey research process are covered: (1) planning the survey to determine the purpose of the study, collecting background information, designing the sample, and making a time line for completing the project; (2) questionnaire design, including the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Measurement Techniques, Questionnaires
Brown, James Dean – 1997
Some issues in the design of classroom research on second language teaching are discussed, with the intention of helping the researcher avoid conceptual pitfalls that may cripple the study later in the process. This begins with an examination of concerns in sampling, including definition of a population to be studied, alternative sampling…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Ethics, Research Design
Mason, Jennifer – 1997
This book is intended to explain principles of qualitative research to potential researchers and to provide them with a set of tools, and guidelines for critical thinking as they carry out such research. The chapters are organized around the elements of the research process which require decisions. Following an introductory chapter, Chapter 2…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Epistemology, Interviews
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Ingels, Steven J.; And Others – 1992
This manual has been produced to familiarize data users with the procedures followed for data collection and processing of the first follow-up dropout component of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88). Necessary documentation is also provided for use of the data files. The base-year population covered by the NELS:88 included…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Processing, Databases, Dropout Research
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