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Page, Lindsay C. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
Experimental evaluations are increasingly common in the U.S. educational policy-research context. Often, in investigations of multifaceted interventions, researchers and policymakers alike are interested in not only "whether" a given intervention impacted an outcome but also "why". What "features" of the intervention…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Income
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Smith, George; James, Terry – Oxford Review of Education, 1975
Prefaced by an interpretation of American preschool studies, a semihistorical approach is used in presenting findings from preschool experiments from the West Riding Educational Priority Area project in England, with a purpose being to suggest some alternatives and to sketch a framework for explaining the conflicting results. (ND)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Development, Educational Experiments
US Senate, 2002
Senator Edward Kennedy, from the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, submitted this report in accompaniment to United States Senate Bill 2969 (S. 2969), which was introduced by Senator Kennedy and Senator Gregg on September 19, 2002. S. 2969 provides for an office within the Department of Education to conduct high quality research…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Federal Legislation, Validity, Evaluation