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Bahl, Alisa B.; Spaulding, Scott A.; McNeil, Cheryl B. – Education and Treatment of Children, 1999
This case report describes treatment of a 6-year-old boy with oppositional defiant disorder with Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, an empirically validated treatment for children with externalizing behavior problems. Data collection methods included completion of parent and teacher reports, behavior observations during every clinic session, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Case Studies, Compliance (Psychology), Data Collection
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Salazar, Jesus Jose – Bilingual Research Journal, 1998
Power analysis of studies in Greene's meta-analysis of bilingual education programs found that many studies of the past 30 years were statistically weak and uninterpretable. Effect size analysis of Thomas and Collier's 15-year study found that their longitudinal model best explains 30 years of bilingual education research and can serve as a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Data Interpretation, Educational Research
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Berger, Charles R. – Journal of Communication, 1998
Examines whether the apprehension and perceived victimization risk of undergraduate students reading news reports depicting frequency of increases in threatening phenomena would be lowered by exposure to stories portraying population increases. Shows that the presentation of relevant population data can lessen the apprehensiveness associated with…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Higher Education, Incidence, Mass Media Effects
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Saarni, Carolyn – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Asserts that journal's three studies examining cultural influences on emotional development reflect Western cultural model, using Western scripts for how data were collected and meaningfulness attributed. Addresses: (1) search for universals versus cultural specificity; (2) effect of unit of analysis; (3) whose perspective is used when proclaiming…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
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Guerrierie, Frank – Science Scope, 1996
Presents an interdisciplinary activity that combines math and science and enhances cooperative learning skills. Enables students to learn about the scientific method by designing an original research project, collecting and interpreting data, and drawing conclusions based on their research. (JRH)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Mostert, Mark P. – Exceptionality, 2001
Twenty-four meta-analyses in mental retardation, learning disabilities, and emotional/behavior disorders were reviewed and analyzed across six domains of information necessary for securing face validity of published meta-analyses. Wide variations that could influence summative results were found. Additionally, temporal analysis of 44 meta-analyses…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Data Interpretation, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Stelmach, Bonnie L. – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2005
Parents are increasingly drawn into school improvement as a key strategy to enhancing student achievement, but parents' understanding of their role is not well documented. This case study illuminates three Alberta (Canada) mothers' perspectives on the meaning of school improvement and their experiences within the provincially funded Alberta…
Descriptors: Mothers, Educational Improvement, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
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Harrison, Kathryn; Antweiler, Werner – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003
In the last decade, voluntary efforts by firms to reduce their environmental impacts have received increasing attention from both policymakers and scholars. This article discusses polluters' incentives to reduce their releases. In particular, using data from Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory, it examines the impacts of conventional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Federal Regulation, Accountability, Pollution
Ashby, Cornelia M. – Government Accountability Office, 2006
Title III of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLBA) designates federal funds to support the education of students with limited English proficiency and provides for formula-based grants to states. This report describes the data the Education Department used to distribute Title III funds and the implications of data measurement issues for the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Officials, Limited English Speaking, Community Surveys
Cibulka, James G.; Derlin, Roberta L. – 1992
This paper analyzes trends in education expenditures in elementary and secondary schools, especially the extent to which special education costs are responsible for the overall upward expenditure trends. It reports on the limited national data available and on a longitudinal analysis of special education costs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1982-83…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Disabilities, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
Forsyth, G. Alfred; And Others – 1996
Many students view statistics as their worst college course. Four heuristics that can improve students' proficiency in statistics and in interpreting reports of research are presented in this paper. The heuristics guide students' judgments about significance, generalizability, cause-and-effect, and strength of independent-dependent variable…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Interpretation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Kovalik, Cindy L.; Lambdin, Kim – 1997
This paper presents findings from an historical investigation of visual literacy, a unique aspect being that the approach relied on the marriage of two disciplines--geography and history--which study change over time. Maps and their interpretation of data by cartographers tend to provide a foundational context that can illuminate past and present…
Descriptors: Archives, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Critical Viewing
Farlow, Leslie J.; Snell, Martha E. – 1994
This manual presents 12 guidelines to help teachers of students with mental retardation make more informed decisions about instruction by gathering and using student performance data. Development of the guidelines incorporated both teachers' recommendations and researchers' findings about what procedures work best, and guidelines were tested in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Diagnostic Teaching
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Ingersoll, Richard M.; And Others – 1997
This report explores the effects of teacher professionalization on elementary and secondary teachers in the United States. The analysis examines the relationships between a set of characteristics traditionally associated with professions and professionals and teachers' commitment to their teaching careers. The report focuses on the following…
Descriptors: Credentials, Data Interpretation, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
McLean, James E. – 1995
This book offers guidelines for action research, a process in which teachers experiment with various strategies at the classroom level. Action research is the process of systematically evaluating the consequences of educational decisions and adjusting practices to maximize effectiveness. Essentially the examination of one's own practice, it…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computer Software, Data Interpretation, Database Management Systems
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