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Wendy Castillo; Rachel Renbarger; Sasha Mejia-Bradford; Christen Priddie; Juan Cruz; Brein Mosely; Katherine Aragon – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Education policy research aimed at eliminating racism necessitates methodological innovation that fosters both equity-centered approaches and robust empirical analysis of the systemic nature of racism. Most quantitative research in educational psychology omits the racist environment that students in K-12 education exist in (DeCuir-Gunby &…
Descriptors: Racism, Elementary Secondary Education, Racial Discrimination, Surveys
Vaske, Jerry J. – Sagamore-Venture, 2019
Data collected from surveys can result in hundreds of variables and thousands of respondents. This implies that time and energy must be devoted to (a) carefully entering the data into a database, (b) running preliminary analyses to identify any problems (e.g., missing data, potential outliers), (c) checking the reliability and validity of the…
Descriptors: Surveys, Theories, Hypothesis Testing, Effect Size
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Nyeris, Raymond; Koross, Benjamin Towett – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The introduction of Free Primary Education (FPE) policy in 2003 was aimed at enhancing the enrolment of all school going-age children in Kenya indiscriminately. However, significant concerns have been raised by scholars and the public over the low enrolment of children with Special Needs Education (SNE). The main objective of this study was to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Sampling, Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students
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Zeyneloglu, Simge; Terzioglu, Fusun – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2011
This research was conducted for the purpose of developing a scaling tool to determine university students' attitudes towards gender roles. University students' attitudes should first be determined in order to change this traditional view to gender and to achieve a more egalitarian view. The research sample was comprised of one university's…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Sex Role, Measures (Individuals), Sampling
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
Developed for users of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY), this user guide consolidates information about the LSAY 2009 cohort into one document. The guide aims to address all aspects of the LSAY data including: how to access the data; data restrictions; variable naming conventions; the structure of the data; documentation;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment, Classification, Longitudinal Studies
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Tourangeau, Karen; Nord, Christine; Lê, Thanh; Wallner-Allen, Kathleen; Vaden-Kiernan, Nancy; Blaker, Lisa; Najarian, Michelle – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This manual provides guidance and documentation for users of the longitudinal kindergarten-fourth grade (K-4) public-use data file of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (ECLS-K:2011), which includes the first release of the public version of the third-grade data. This manual mainly provides information specific…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Children, Surveys, Kindergarten
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Barnette, J. Jackson; And Others – Educational Research Quarterly, 1978
The DELPHI procedure requires respondents to reply to several questionnaire iterations with subsequent rounds containing previous round feedback. This study investigated the methodology (response rates, effects of feedback) and offered evidence that large-scale DELPHI surveys are not as advantageous as has previously been indicated. Suggestions…
Descriptors: Feedback, Item Analysis, Measurement Techniques, Predictive Measurement
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Zapka, Jane G.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1991
The construct validity of hypothesized survey items and data reduction procedures for selected psychosocial constructs frequently used in breast cancer screening research were investigated in telephone interviews with randomly selected samples of 1,184 and 903 women and a sample of 169 Hispanic clinic clients. Validity of the constructs is…
Descriptors: Adults, Cancer, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Construct Validity
Morris, Lynn Lyons; Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1978
Measuring attainment of the program's objectives and describing the program's implementation are listed as two of the evaluator's major responsibilities. The description should include an explanation of the context in which the program was initiated, as well as the component materials and activities. This booklet has three purposes: (1) suggesting…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods