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Rodgers-Farmer, Antoinette Y.; Davis, Diane – Social Work Research, 2001
Uses data from the 1994 AIDS Knowledge and Attitudes Supplement to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to illustrate that biased point estimates, inappropriate standard errors, and misleading tests of significance can result from using traditional software packages, such as SPSS or SAS, for complex survey analysis. (BF)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Research Methodology

Liljestrand, Petra – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1993
Reviewed 65 reports, dated 1986 through 1990, focusing on college student alcohol consumption patterns. Review shows that shortcomings in research design, analysis, and presentation of results make it difficult to draw conclusions regarding the present nature and problem of college student drinking. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, College Students, Data Analysis, Drinking
Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2009
Global economic transformations have never been as dramatic as in the twentieth century. Most countries have experienced radical changes in the standards of income per capita, technology, fertility, mortality, income inequality and the extent of democracy in the course of the past century. It is the goal of many disciplines--economics, history,…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Attainment, Demography, Global Approach
Greene, Jay P.; And Others – 1996
In 1990, Milwaukee (Wisconsin) became the site of the first publicly funded school-choice program providing low-income parents with vouchers that could be used to send their children to secular, private schools. An evaluation of Milwaukee's school-choice experiment was conducted by a team of researchers, headed by John Witte at the University of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Problems
Miles, Matthew B. – 1987
Two innovative methods for collecting and analyzing qualitative data are vignettes and pre-structured cases. Vignettes are descriptions of situations or problems written by a professional, with a suggested outline and comments provided by a researcher. Advantages of this method are strength of impact of the written descriptions and efficiency of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Altonji, Joseph G. – 1990
This paper examines whether failure to control for family background, aptitude, high school quality, high school curriculum, and community characteristics leads to bias in estimates of the economic return resulting from postsecondary education. High school specific fixed effects were used to control for all observed and unobserved characteristics…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Community Characteristics, Data Analysis, Educational Benefits