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Bloom, Howard; Bell, Andrew; Reiman, Kayla – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2020
This article assesses the likely generalizability of educational treatment-effect estimates from regression discontinuity designs (RDDs) when treatment assignment is based on academic pretest scores. Our assessment uses data on outcome and pretest measures from six educational experiments, ranging from preschool through high school, to estimate…
Descriptors: Data Use, Randomized Controlled Trials, Research Design, Regression (Statistics)
Bloom, Howard; Bell, Andrew; Reiman, Kayla – Grantee Submission, 2020
This article assesses the likely generalizability of educational treatment-effect estimates from regression discontinuity designs (RDDs) when treatment assignment is based on academic pretest scores. Our assessment uses data on outcome and pretest measures from six educational experiments, ranging from preschool through high school, to estimate…
Descriptors: Data Use, Randomized Controlled Trials, Research Design, Regression (Statistics)
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Zhu, Pei; Jacob, Robin; Bloom, Howard; Xu, Zeyu – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2012
This paper provides practical guidance for researchers who are designing and analyzing studies that randomize schools--which comprise three levels of clustering (students in classrooms in schools)--to measure intervention effects on student academic outcomes when information on the middle level (classrooms) is missing. This situation arises…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Research Methodology, Multivariate Analysis