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Naraian, Srikala – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2016
Research in the implementation of inclusive education in international contexts shows that progress in the Global South appears to lag behind nations in the North. In this paper, I investigate this phenomenon not by associating it with regional cultural and socioeconomic resource limitations, but by reconsidering the assumptions within inclusive…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Teacher Education, Error Patterns, Scholarship
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Gabriel, Rachael; Lester, Jessica Nina – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
Since the beginning of the federal Race To The Top grant competition, Value-Added Measurement (VAM) has captured the attention of the American public through high-profile media representations of the tool and the controversy that surrounds it. In this paper, we build upon investigations of constructions of VAM in the media and present a discourse…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Teacher Evaluation, Discourse Analysis, Policy Formation
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Easterday, Matthew W.; Aleven, Vincent; Scheines, Richard; Carver, Sharon M. – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009
Policy problems like "What should we do about global warming?" are ill-defined in large part because we do not agree on a system to represent them the way we agree Algebra problems should be represented by equations. As a first step toward building a policy deliberation tutor, we investigated: (a) whether causal diagrams help students learn to…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Protocol Analysis, Tutors, Inferences
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Chapman, David W.; Dhungana, Madhup – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
The quality of educational data in Nepal was evaluated by investigating three questions: (1) the extent of reporting error in national education data; (2) accuracy of error estimation; and (3) levels at which error is introduced. Evidence suggests that data may be more accurate than decision makers suppose. (SLD)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Developing Nations, Educational Research
Wisenbaker, Joseph M. – 1975
Suggesting that James Coleman's paper on massive school desegragation reveals methodological flaws of such magnitude that they raise serious questions as to the validity of the conclusions, this paper addresses a full sequence of perceived methodological errors found in the Coleman document, but does not dismiss the conclusions based upon initial…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Educational Policy, Educational Research
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Hesse, Sharlene J.; Burstein, Ina B. – 1977
Because public opinion polls have become important sources of information for legislators and politicians, public opinion pollsters should carefully consider the relationships between gender wording of polling questions, measurement errors, and validity and generalizability of survey findings. Findings from numerous research projects indicate that…
Descriptors: Bias, Error Patterns, Evaluation, Females