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Perkins, Aminah; Engelhard, George, Jr. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
Coburn and Turner (this issue) present an intriguing framework for understanding how data has come to be used in the current high accountability environments in education. In this framework, they connect various processes of data use within organizational and political contexts. Data use is presented using an ecological perspective that deepens…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Quality, Evaluation Utilization, Research Utilization
Dynarski, Mark – 1994
Since 1988 five evaluations of Federal demonstration programs in education have been implemented that had random-assignment designs to measure program impacts. The implementation of two of these evaluations, the evaluation of the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program and that of the Alternative Schools Random Assignment Program, are…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Demonstration Programs, Dropout Programs, Evaluation Methods