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Responding to the Charge of Alchemy: Strategies for Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of Costing-Out Research
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Duncombe, William – Journal of Education Finance, 2006
Reforming school finance systems to support performance standards entails estimating the cost of an adequate education. Cost of adequacy (COA) studies have been done in more than 30 states. Recently Eric Hanushek challenged the legitimacy of COA research, calling it alchemy and pseudoscience. The objectives of this study are to present reliability…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Validity, Social Sciences, Federal Government