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Kraft, Matthew A. – Educational Researcher, 2023
It is a healthy exercise to debate the merits of using effect-size benchmarks to interpret research findings. However, these debates obscure a more central insight that emerges from empirical distributions of effect-size estimates in the literature: Efforts to improve education often fail to move the needle. I find that 36% of effect sizes from…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Benchmarking, Educational Research, Educational Policy
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Spybrook, Jessaca; Westine, Carl D.; Taylor, Joseph A. – AERA Open, 2016
The Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development were created as a joint effort between the Institute of Education Science and the National Science Foundation in an effort to streamline education research and contribute to an accumulation of knowledge that will lead to improved student outcomes. One type of research that emerged in the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Outcomes of Education, Science Achievement, Reading Achievement
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
The study authors examined the effects of using "Diagnostic Assessment Tools" ("DAT") on mathematics and reading outcomes for students in Indiana schools during the 2009-10 academic year. "DAT" consists of interim assessment tools--Wireless Generation's mCLASS for students in grades K-2 and CTB/ McGraw-Hill's Acuity…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Formative Evaluation, Student Evaluation