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Reese, Hayne W. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Recommends that when repeated-measures Latin-square designs are used to counterbalance treatments across a procedural variable or to reduce the number of treatment combinations given to each participant, effects be analyzed statistically, and that in all uses, researchers consider alternative interpretations of the variance associated with the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Problems, Research Methodology, Research Problems, Statistical Analysis
Kolen, Michael J. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 2004
In this article, the history of linking is summarized, and current linking frameworks that have been proposed are considered. Key publications discussed include Flanagan (1951), Angoff (1971), Linn (1993), Mislevy (1992), and Feuer, Holland, Green, Bertenthal, and Hemphill (1999). The article further focuses on the concordance situation for…
Descriptors: Measurement, Measurement Techniques, Evaluation Methods, Research Needs
Yun, John T. – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2008
A new report published by the Manhattan Institute for Education Policy, "The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence from Florida's McKay Scholarship Program," attempts to examine the complex issue of how competition introduced through school vouchers affects student outcomes in public schools. The…
Descriptors: Evidence, Research Design, Public Schools, Academic Achievement

Campbell, Donald T. – 1976
Program impact methodology--usually referred to as evaluation research--is described as it is developing in the United States. Several problems face the field of evaluation research. First, those issues grouped as "meta-scientific" include: (1) the distinction between qualitative and quantitative studies; (2) the separation of implementation and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Research, Program Effectiveness
Olson, George H. – 1988
This paper acknowledges that research on school dropouts presents problems in the definitions and computation of dropout indices. It considers a variety of methods for computing dropout rates, using dropout rates which are real and which were available at the end of the 1986-1987 school year. Fall enrollment, average daily membership, and total…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Dropout Rate, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria

Fitz, Don; Tryon, Warren W. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1989
Methods of using simplified time series analysis (STSA) in evaluating clinical programs are discussed. STSA assists in addressing problems of attrition/augmentation of subjects in programs with changing populations. Combining individually calculated "C" statistics in a simple aggregate analysis of restraint usage by nursing home staff…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Clinics, Evaluation Problems, Experimental Groups
Lubienski, Christopher – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2008
A Friedman Foundation report attempts to find empirical support for the contention that competition from private schools, through voucher programs, improves the effectiveness of public schools. In the first year of Ohio's new EdChoice voucher program, the report claims to have found substantial academic gains at public schools exposed to the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Public Schools, Private Schools, School Choice
Thompson, Bruce – 1995
The research literature provides important guidance to counselors working to keep abreast of the latest thinking regarding best practices and recently developed counseling tools. The purpose of this digest is to highlight a few errors that seem to recur within the literature, and to provide some helpful references that further explore these…
Descriptors: Counseling, Educational Researchers, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Greene, Jay P.; And Others – 1996
In 1990, Milwaukee (Wisconsin) became the site of the first publicly funded school-choice program providing low-income parents with vouchers that could be used to send their children to secular, private schools. An evaluation of Milwaukee's school-choice experiment was conducted by a team of researchers, headed by John Witte at the University of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Problems