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Chan, Wendy – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
Recent methods to improve generalizations from nonrandom samples typically invoke assumptions such as the strong ignorability of sample selection, which is challenging to meet in practice. Although researchers acknowledge the difficulty in meeting this assumption, point estimates are still provided and used without considering alternative…
Descriptors: Generalization, Inferences, Probability, Educational Research
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Tipton, Elizabeth; Yeager, David; Iachan, Ronaldo – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Questions regarding the generalizability of results from educational experiments have been at the forefront of methods development over the past five years. This work has focused on methods for estimating the effect of an intervention in a well-defined inference population (e.g., Tipton, 2013; O'Muircheartaigh and Hedges, 2014); methods for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Science Research, Intervention, Educational Experiments
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Crooke, Alexander Hew Dale; McFerran, Katrina Skewes – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2014
The potential for music programs to promote psychosocial wellbeing in mainstream schools is recognised in both policy and research literature. Despite this recognition, there is a dearth of consistent research evidence supporting this link. Authors attribute this lack of consistent evidence to limitations in the areas of research design and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Well Being, Psychological Patterns
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McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Sass, Tim R.; Lockwood, J. R.; Mihaly, Kata – Education Finance and Policy, 2009
The utility of value-added estimates of teachers' effects on student test scores depends on whether they can distinguish between high- and low-productivity teachers and predict future teacher performance. This article studies the year-to-year variability in value-added measures for elementary and middle school mathematics teachers from five large…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Mathematics Achievement, Sampling, Middle School Teachers
Johnstone, Christopher J.; Bottsford-Miller, Nicole A.; Thompson, Sandra J. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2006
Finding ways to improve the design of large-scale tests is a timely issue. Recent changes in Federal legislation (including the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001) have placed greater emphasis on accountability via large-scale tests. Students who have previously been exempted from large-scale assessments, including students with disabilities and…
Descriptors: Measurement, Testing, Test Construction, Protocol Analysis