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Thompson, Karen D.; Martinez, Martha I.; Clinton, Chelsea; Díaz, Guadalupe – Educational Researcher, 2017
Researcher-practitioner partnerships have gained increasing prominence within education in recent years, yet scholarship on partnerships and tools to guide partnerships' work remain in their infancy. Drawing on our own work in a partnership as well as analysis of abstracts for the 41 partnerships funded by the Institute of Education Sciences and…
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, Interpersonal Relationship, Incidence, Data Collection
McCoy, Dana Charles; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M.; Duncan, Greg J.; Schindler, Holly S.; Magnuson, Katherine; Yang, Rui; Koepp, Andrew; Shonkoff, Jack P. – Educational Researcher, 2017
Despite calls to expand early childhood education (ECE) in the United States, questions remain regarding its medium- and long-term impacts on educational outcomes. We use meta-analysis of 22 high-quality experimental and quasi-experimental studies conducted between 1960 and 2016 to find that on average, participation in ECE leads to statistically…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Outcomes of Education, Meta Analysis, Research Design
Evidence-Based Practices in a Changing World: Reconsidering the Counterfactual in Education Research
Lemons, Christopher J.; Fuchs, Douglas; Gilbert, Jennifer K.; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Educational Researcher, 2014
Experimental and quasi-experimental designs are used in educational research to establish causality and develop effective practices. These research designs rely on a counterfactual model that, in simple form, calls for a comparison between a treatment group and a control group. Developers of educational practices often assume that the population…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Design, Models, Control Groups
Cheung, Alan C. K.; Slavin, Robert E. – Educational Researcher, 2016
As evidence becomes increasingly important in educational policy, it is essential to understand how research design might contribute to reported effect sizes in experiments evaluating educational programs. A total of 645 studies from 12 recent reviews of evaluations of preschool, reading, mathematics, and science programs were studied. Effect…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Research Methodology, Research Design, Preschool Evaluation
Anderson, Terry; Shattuck, Julie – Educational Researcher, 2012
Design-based research (DBR) evolved near the beginning of the 21st century and was heralded as a practical research methodology that could effectively bridge the chasm between research and practice in formal education. In this article, the authors review the characteristics of DBR and analyze the five most cited DBR articles from each year of this…
Descriptors: Evidence, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Research Design

Klausmeier, Herbert J. – Educational Researcher, 1982
Identifies trends in educational achievement in the 1970s. Presents hypotheses concerning the relationship between research and gains/declines in educational achievement during that period. Discusses a project for individualized learning programs and its theoretical rationale, and describes a research project based on that educational improvement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Research, Educational Strategies

Tobias, Sigmund – Educational Researcher, 1982
Studies comparing the external characteristics of instructional methods have obscured the most important variable which accounts for learning from instruction: macroprocesses, or the frequency and intensity with which students cognitively process instructional input. Further research on macroprocesses may be a meeting point between the psychology…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Curriculum Research, Educational Researchers, Instructional Design