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Goldhaber, Dan; Koedel, Cory – American Educational Research Journal, 2019
In the summer of 2013, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) issued public ratings of teacher education programs. We provide the first empirical examination of NCTQ ratings, beginning with a descriptive overview of the ratings and how they evolved from 2013--2016. We also report on results from an information experiment built around the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Education Programs, Intervention, Program Evaluation
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Ocean, Mia; Hirschi, Melissa – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
It is currently unknown how many Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) exist at community colleges. This study investigates the percentage of public and Tribal community colleges that have active IRBs. It also examines the potential relationships between states that allow community colleges to confer baccalaureate degrees, or that have articulation…
Descriptors: Tribally Controlled Education, Community Colleges, Evaluators, Experiments
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Rodriguez, Idaykis; Goertzen, Renee Michelle; Brewe, Eric; Kramer, Laird H. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2015
We investigate the development of expert identities through the use of the sociocultural perspective of learning as participating in a community of practice. An ethnographic case study of biophysics graduate students focuses on the experiences the students have in their research group meetings. The analysis illustrates how the communities of…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Communities of Practice, Ethnography, Case Studies
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Yamaguchi, Motonori; Proctor, Robert W. – Psychological Review, 2012
The present study proposes and examines the multidimensional vector (MDV) model framework as a modeling schema for choice response times. MDV extends the Thurstonian model, as well as signal detection theory, to classification tasks by taking into account the influence of response properties on stimulus discrimination. It is capable of accounting…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Mathematical Models, Scaling, Experiments
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Sheehy, Benedict – Australian Universities' Review, 2010
Markets have a number of uses. One increasingly important use of markets by politicians is as a means of regulating the supply and distribution of goods and services formerly supplied and distributed by governments on non-market bases. The use of markets as a regulator of higher education is not novel. However, the increased reliance on markets as…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Experiments, Models