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McDuffie, Kimberly A.; Scruggs, Thomas E. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2008
In response to recent trends and legislation, the concept of implementing evidence-based practices has become a critical component of contemporary schooling. It is important that teachers and families of students with disabilities understand the role that qualitative research plays in determining whether a practice is in fact evidence based.…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Disabilities, Special Education, Evidence
Hittleman, Daniel R.; Simon, Alan J. – 1997
This volume is intended for use in introductory research courses in which elementary and early childhood teachers, reading specialists, special education teachers, and content area teachers at the middle and secondary school levels are prepared as consumers of educational research rather than producers of educational research. The text provides…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Research Reports
Orwin, Robert G. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1985
The manner in which results and methods are reported influences the ability of the synthesis of prior studies for planning new evaluations. Confidence ratings, coding conventions, and supplemental evidence can partially overcome the difficulties. Planners must acknowledge the influence of their own judgement in using prior research. (Author)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Meta Analysis
Hall, Melvin E. – 1979
Program portrayal is one way of addressing the need for increased descriptive capability in evaluation research. Portrayal supplements traditional reporting by utilizing subjective, anecdotal, or impressionistic information, in an appropriately communicable form, to enrich the description of program transactions, settings, and outcomes. It is…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Program Descriptions

Smith, John K. – Educational Researcher, 1988
Relativism is an inevitable consequence of our interpretive mode of being in the world. This is so for both our daily lives and our professional lives. What does not overly concern us at the former level should likewise not concern us at the latter level. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Research Needs

Mathison, Sandra. – Educational Researcher, 1988
Triangulation strategy results in evidence characterized by the following: (1) convergence; (2) inconsistency; and (3) contradiction. In order to render the data sensible, the researcher or evaluator must report data collection procedures, as well as the three levels of information from which explanations of social phenomena are constructed. (BJV)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators
Thompson, Bruce – 2000
Web-based statistical instruction, like all statistical instruction, ought to focus on teaching the essence of the research endeavor: the exercise of reflective judgment. Using the framework of the recent report of the American Psychological Association (APA) Task Force on Statistical Inference (Wilkinson and the APA Task Force on Statistical…
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Computer Assisted Instruction, Evaluation Methods
Bergquist, Constance C. – 1979
A framework is presented that relates concepts of audit reliability to the uses of information gathered from a discrepancy program audit of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title IV-C programs in Florida. Three issues are addressed: (1) the meaning of reliability in relation to the audit process; (2) the importance of reliability of auditor…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Federal Aid

Nissim, Ruth; Simm, Mike – Adoption & Fostering, 1994
Suggests incorporating into practice those findings that emerge repeatedly in different foster care studies. Identifies four characteristics of children that have been linked to particular outcomes: age at time of placement, contact with biological family, length of time in care, and behavior problems. Shows how incorporation of these factors into…
Descriptors: Age, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Children

Marshall, Catherine – 1982
After several lengthy evaluations of California's Early Childhood Education (ECE) program proved inadequate, unhappy legislators and educators finally found satisfaction in a brief, mimeographed report. Several factors were responsible for the success of this new evaluation, the "Interim Report on the Special Study of Selected ECE Schools…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy
Buttram, Joan L.; And Others – 1992
The effectiveness of four technical assistance-oriented services/products of one regional educational laboratory was studied. The services/products studied included a thinking skills activities workbook for classroom teachers, a videotape for rural educators on exemplary software for developing the thinking skills of at-risk students, a research…
Descriptors: Education Service Centers, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education