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Hanushek, Eric A.; Warren, John Robert; Grodsky, Eric – Educational Policy, 2012
This exchange represents a follow-up to an article on the effects of state high school exit examinations that previously appeared in this journal (Warren, Grodsky, & Kalogrides 2009). That 2009 article was featured prominently in a report by the National Research Council (NRC) that evaluated the efficacy of test-based accountability systems.…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, High Schools, Exit Examinations, Context Effect
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Vacha-Haase, Tammi; Thompson, Bruce – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1998
Responds to Biskin's comments (this issue) on the significance test controversy. Highlights areas of agreement (importance of replication evidence, importance of effect sizes) and disagreement (influence of sample size, evaluation of populations vs. samples, significance of Carver's article). Includes further recommendations for reporting research…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Hypothesis Testing, Psychological Studies, Sampling
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