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Towne, Lisa, Ed.; Hilton, Margaret, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2004
The central idea of evidence-based education--that education policy and practice ought to be fashioned based on what is known from rigorous research--offers a compelling way to approach reform efforts. Recent federal trends reflect a growing enthusiasm for such change. Most visibly, the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act requires that…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Workshops, Research Design, Educational Change
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Diehl, Daniel; Frey, Andy – School Social Work Journal, 2008
While research has shown that social workers can have positive impacts on students' school adjustment, evaluations of overall practice models continue to be limited. This article evaluates a model of community-school social work practice by examining its effect on problem behaviors and concerns identified by teachers and parents at referral. As…
Descriptors: Research Design, Intervention, Student Adjustment, School Social Workers
Henderson, Dianne L.; Julian, Marc W.; Yen, Wendy M. – 2002
This paper discusses different perspectives associated with the use of multiple measures in educational assessment and explores some of the technical considerations for selecting and combining multiple measures. The paper concludes with an example of the use of multiple measures with regard to the recent No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2002.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Slavin, Robert E. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2005
In this keynote address presented at the Mid-western Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in October, 2004, the author discusses the increasing interest of federal policy-makers in scientifically-based research. A comparison between education and other disciplines is offered, and a proposal for increased rigor in educational research is…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Change, Professional Associations, Comparative Analysis
Page, Stephen, Ed.; Shaw, Danielle, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2004
Beginners in many disciplines learn that correlation never proves causation, but sometimes, even in public health, correlation, mistaken for causation, becomes the basis for policy and great expenditures of public and private money. "True experiments" with random assignment to experimental and control groups hold a special place in the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Federal Legislation, Statistical Studies