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Lewy, Arieh – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1981
Serial Evaluation Activities (SEAs) are series' of focused evaluational studies, each dealing with a well-defined "component unit" within a complex project. Strategies for enhancing timeliness in SEAs include a comprehensive conceptual framework, a permanent institutional setting, a prearranged sample plan, utilization of item banks, and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Institutional Research, Item Banks, Program Evaluation
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Huck, Schuyler W. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1991
This poem, with stanzas in limerick form, refers humorously to the many threats to validity posed by problems in research design, including problems of sample selection, data collection, and data analysis. (SLD)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Experiments, Poetry
Young, Rosalie F.; Kahana, Eva – 1983
Research with older persons suffering from physical illness presents numerous challenges to gerontologists. Issues of conceptualization pertaining to the definition of illness, its location in the research paradigm, and the context in which illness occurs must be addressed prior to dealing with methodological problems. Access to physically ill…
Descriptors: Bias, Data Analysis, Diseases, Gerontology
Krakower, Jack Y. – 1984
Three factors are considered that contribute to the perception that the higher education research effort has done a poor job in dealing with problems confronting academe. The first factor is the magnitude of the higher education enterprise and the number of problems and issues inherent in it. The second factor is the level of support for research,…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Higher Education, Institutional Research
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Gillmore, Gerald M. – Research in Higher Education, 1980
The critical issues, in a dispute between Romney's interpretation of his results and Gillmore's interpretation, are described as whether the teacher factor should be treated as fixed or random in the analysis of variance model and what conclusions can be drawn from the results of the study. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Higher Education, Research Methodology
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Deal, James E.; Anderson, Edward R. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1995
Presentation of quantitative research on the family often suffers from a tendency to interpret findings on a statistical rather than substantive basis. Advocates the use of data analysis that lends itself to an intuitive understanding of the nature of the findings, the strength of the association, and the import of the result. (JPS)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Effect Size, Evaluation Methods, Goodness of Fit
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Taylor, Matthew J.; Innocenti, Mark S. – Journal of Early Intervention, 1993
This paper recommends use of analysis of covariance in early intervention research to account for pretreatment group differences and increase statistical power. Diagrams show how analysis of covariance manipulates data under various conditions. Simulated data analysis demonstrates the process of selecting covariates and shows the results with and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Data Analysis, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
David, Jane L. – 1981
After a brief introduction indicating the value of the first Follow Through evaluation, this document offers ideas about how a new wave of Follow Through approaches should be evaluated. The discussion is based on the premise that the form of an evaluation must be derived from the questions for which answers are sought, the audience(s) to whom the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Context Effect, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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Feldens, Maria das Gracas F.; Duncan, James K. – Journal of Educational Thought, 1988
Reports on a study of the beliefs held by students, parents, and teachers regarding desirable schooling and teaching in grades one to eight in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Examines the combined use of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies; rationales and procedures of naturalistic and rationalistic inquiry; and implications for research in…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Attitudes
Greene, Jay P.; Peterson, Paul E. – 1996
In August 1996 Jay P. Greene, Paul E. Peterson, and Jiangtao Du, with Leesa Boeger and Curtis L. Frazier, issued a report called "The Effectiveness of School Choice in Milwaukee." The report, referred to as GPDBF, presented data that indicated that low-income minority students in their third and fourth years of participation in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Participant Characteristics
Glantz, Frederic B.; Layzer, Jean – 2000
The findings of the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes (CQO) study in Child Care Centers, the largest and most visible child care research conducted in the 1990s, were widely publicized and used to promote increased spending on initiatives to improve child care quality, the redesign of subsidy systems to provide quality incentives, more stringent…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Child Care, Child Care Centers, Child Care Effects