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Rejoinder: Probing Assumptions, Enriching Analysis
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Raudenbush, Stephen W.; Reardon, Sean F.; Nomi, Takako – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
This article presents the authors' rejoinder to the comments of Howard Bloom, Derek Neal, and Mike Seltzer on their article. Their commentary focused foremost on the advantages and disadvantages of using Options A, B, or C in using instrumental variables in multisite trials. Of interest are the quantities one can estimate and test in each case,…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Predictor Variables, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques, Experimental Programs
Value, Impact, and the Transcendent Library: Progress and Pressures in Performance Measurement and Evaluation
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Town, J. Stephen – Library Quarterly, 2011
Libraries are under pressure to prove their worth and may not have achieved this fully successfully. There is a resultant growing requirement for value and impact measurement in academic and research libraries. This essay reviews the natural history of library performance measurement and suggests that proof of worth will be measured by the…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Measurement, Academic Libraries, Values
Understanding Achievement and Acting To Produce It: Some Recommendations for NAEP.
Resnick, Daniel P.; Resnick, Lauren B. – 1987
Recent developments in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have addressed criticisms of previous assessments and have focused on state education departments as the major clients for test results. NAEP currently indicates progress in academic learning but does not define which aspects of schools are responsible for successes and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Data Collection