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Ian Greener – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
This paper argues for three aspects of tolerance with respect to QCA research: tolerance with respect to different approaches to QCA; producing QCA research with tolerance (work that is resistant to criticism); and for QCA researchers to be clear about the tolerance of the solutions they present -- especially in terms of calibration and truth…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Comparative Analysis, Research Design
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Baron, Patricia; Sireci, Stephen G.; Slater, Sharon C. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2021
Since the No Child Left Behind Act (No Child Left Behind [NCLB], 2001) was enacted, the Bookmark method has been used in many state standard setting studies (Karantonis and Sireci; Zieky, Perie, and Livingston). The purpose of the current study is to evaluate the criticism that when panelists are presented with data during the Bookmark standard…
Descriptors: State Standards, Standard Setting, Evaluators, Training
Jacob M. Schauer; Kaitlyn G. Fitzgerald; Sarah Peko-Spicer; Mena C. R. Whalen; Rrita Zejnullahi; Larry V. Hedges – Grantee Submission, 2021
Several programs of research have sought to assess the replicability of scientific findings in different fields, including economics and psychology. These programs attempt to replicate several findings and use the results to say something about large-scale patterns of replicability in a field. However, little work has been done to understand the…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Research Methodology, Evaluation Methods, Replication (Evaluation)
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Naicker, Ramona – Education for Information, 2022
Racial bias in research impacts a study's relevancy, validity and reliability, though presently this aspect is not addressed in critical appraisal tools, and consequently appraisers may not take racial bias into account when assessing a paper's quality. Drawing on critical race theory (CRT) tenets that racism is ubiquitous and race a social…
Descriptors: Racism, Critical Race Theory, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Groups
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Oren Pizmony-Levy; James Harvey; William H. Schmidt; Richard Noonan; Laura Engel; Michael J. Feuer; Henry Braun; Carla Santorno; Iris C. Rotberg; Paul Ash; Madhabi Chatterji; Judith Torney-Purta – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2014
Purpose: This paper presents a moderated discussion on popular misconceptions, benefits and limitations of International Large-Scale Assessment (ILSA) programs, clarifying how ILSA results could be more appropriately interpreted and used in public policy contexts in the USA and elsewhere in the world. Design/methodology/approach: To bring key…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, International Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Measurement
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Page, Stewart; Cramer, Kenneth M.; Page, Laura – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2010
We present a data-based perspective concerning recent (e.g., 2008) "Maclean's" magazine rankings of Canadian universities, including cluster analysis of the 2008 data. Canadian universities empirically resemble and relate to each other in a manner different from their formal classification and final rank ordering in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Multivariate Analysis, Foreign Countries