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Nickel, K. N. – 1979
The failure of educational research to fully allow for limitations in methodology when drawing conclusions is faulted. In addition to this, a failure on the part of the media--educational and other--to fully publicize these limitations is also criticized. Methodological shortcomings of the 1977-78 American Institutes of Research (AIR) study of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Control Groups, Data Collection
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The New York State Experimental Prekindergarten Program (PreK) evaluation studied successive waves of children while they were in PreK, and as they progressed through the third grade. For each wave, two control groups were obtained: (1) A waiting-list control group, children in districts offering PreK programs who were identified as eligible for…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups
