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Phillips, Paul; Moutinho, Luiz; Godinho, Pedro – Higher Education Quarterly, 2018
This paper aims to extend understanding of the business and societal impact of academic research. From a business school perspective, it has taken stock of the role of academic research and relevance in business and society. The proposed conceptual framework highlights the forces influencing the pursuit of academic rigour and relevance in…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Outcomes of Education, Educational Research, Relevance (Education)
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Schochet, Peter Z. – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2008
Pretest-posttest experimental designs are often used in randomized control trials (RCTs) in the education field to improve the precision of the estimated treatment effects. For logistic reasons, however, pretest data are often collected after random assignment, so that including them in the analysis could bias the posttest impact estimates. Thus,…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Pretesting, Scores, Intervention
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Nandakumar, Ratna; Roussos, Louis – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2004
A new procedure, CATSIB, for assessing differential item functioning (DIF) on computerized adaptive tests (CATs) is proposed. CATSIB, a modified SIBTEST procedure, matches test takers on estimated ability and controls for impact-induced Type 1 error inflation by employing a CAT version of the IBTEST "regression correction." The…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Pretesting