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Steven Glazerman; Larissa Campuzano; Nancy Murray – Evaluation Review, 2025
Randomized experiments involving education interventions are typically implemented as cluster randomized trials, with schools serving as clusters. To design such a study, it is critical to understand the degree to which learning outcomes vary between versus within clusters (schools), specifically the intraclass correlation coefficient. It is also…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Foreign Countries, Educational Assessment, Research Design
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Esbensen, Finn-Aage; Melde, Chris; Taylor, Terrance J.; Peterson, Dana – Evaluation Review, 2008
Active parental consent policies have been blamed for low participation rates and selection bias (i.e., loss of "high-risk" youths) in school-based studies. In this article, the authors describe active consent procedures that produced an overall active consent rate of 79% in a sample of more than 4,500 middle school students attending 29…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Educational Research, School Surveys, Parent Rights