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Wainer, Howard – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2010
In this essay, the author tries to look forward into the 21st century to divine three things: (i) What skills will researchers in the future need to solve the most pressing problems? (ii) What are some of the most likely candidates to be those problems? and (iii) What are some current areas of research that seem mined out and should not distract…
Descriptors: Research Skills, Researchers, Internet, Access to Information
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Wainer, Howard – Evaluation and Research in Education, 2000
Discusses three interlocking areas associated with effectively and accurately conveying information about school performance to the public: (1) graphical display; (2) nonrandomly gathered data; and (3) statistical adjustment. Illustrates these points with historical data, including test results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission (School), Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
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Wainer, Howard – American Educational Research Journal, 1971
See TM 500 270 in this issue. (CK)
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Cluster Analysis, Data Collection, Individual Differences
Wainer, Howard – 1992
This paper reports 20 unsolved problems in educational measurement and points toward what seem to be promising avenues of solution. The first group of concerns involves validity, posing the problems of obtaining suitable validity criteria, determining and measuring the predictor variables that best characterize the traits and proficiencies of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Measurement Techniques