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Tienken, Christopher H. – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2013
Secretary of Education Duncan (2010) lamented the state of U.S. education in 2010 after the release of the results from the 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). He wrote: "Unfortunately, the 2009 PISA results show that American students are poorly prepared to compete in today's knowledge economy. President Obama has…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing
Ritter, Gary; Jensen, Nathan; Kisida, Brian; McGee, Joshua – Education Next, 2010
In January 2010, the UCLA-based Civil Rights Project (CRP) released "Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards." The study intended to report on, among other things, levels of racial segregation in charter schools across the United States. The authors use 2007-08 data from the U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Racial Segregation, School Segregation, Racial Composition
Sarangapani, Padma M.; Winch, Christopher – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
Tooley, Dixon and Gomathi maintain that private unrecognised unaided schools in Hyderabad, India, catering for children of the poor, provide a better level of education than do their government counterparts. We examine this contention and argue first that Tooley et al.'s conceptualisation of education and its benefits is flawed and second that the…
Descriptors: Private Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Assessment

de Francesco, Corrado – European Journal of Education, 1986
Overreliance on enrollment figures for comparative analysis of higher education systems may create misunderstanding because data often lump together what is institutionally different, and the notion of "higher education student" may conceal completely different conditions, even within the same sector. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation

Testone, Sharon – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 1998
Addresses the problems related to research design and the improper interpretation of survey results at the institutional level. Analyzes the validity of student opinion surveys. Discusses the importance of response rates. Encourages developmental educators to question results of surveys when outcomes are contrary to the findings of research…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Interpretation, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Research

Alley, Vivian Morgan – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 1999
Reviews literature and statistical test data from previously administered student evaluations at Middle Tennessee State University to draw conclusions about evaluation reliability. Five series of tests were performed on the evaluations, comparing measures such as time of class and type of course taught. The most notable finding was that…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Interpretation, Higher Education, Reliability

Telzrow, Cathy F. – Early Education and Development, 1993
Reviews three areas of limitations in the comparative evaluations of early intervention alternatives for disabled children presented in this volume: (1) inaccurate outcomes measures; (2) a misconception of parent training programs as representing true family involvement; (3) and the lack of control over the integrity of treatment given study…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Interpretation, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education

Lipetz, Ben-Ami; Paulson, Peter J. – Library Trends, 1987
Reports the rationale, design, implementation, and results of an examination of the impact of online subject catalogs on users by comparing their behaviors before and after catalog installation. Evaluation criteria included volume of use, types of searches, use of other catalogs, search time, user satisfaction, and need for assistance. (CLB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Interpretation, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods