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Kershaw, Paul; Forer, Barry; Irwin, Lori G.; Hertzman, Clyde; Lapointe, Vanessa – Early Education and Development, 2007
The article reports results from a Human Early Learning Partnership initiative that aims to address limitations within the literature concerning neighborhood effects on child development. Problems include the tendency for studies to (a) rely on small samples of children, (b) focus on high-risk populations, (c) define neighborhood by Census…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Child Development
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Bourke, S.; Hattie, J.; Anderson, L. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2004
This paper investigates relationships between candidate and examiner characteristics, the texts of examiner reports on Ph.D. theses and examiner recommendations made on theses. The data were related to 804 examiner reports on 301 theses submitted at three Australian universities. Thesis topics ranged across ten Broad Fields of Study or discipline…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Graduate Study, Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries
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Ingenkamp, K.; Wolf, B. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
Two studies of the oral secondary school leaving examinations in Germany indicated variances in ratings made by different teachers. The differences were significantly influenced by speed of speaking, background information about past achievement, and contrast of performance related to sequence of presentation. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Examiners, Experimenter Characteristics, Foreign Countries