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On the Treatment of Authors, Outliers, and Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates.
Jaeger, Richard M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1993
Ruth Stott violates canons of scholarly debate by attacking author's October 1992 "Kappan" article on world-class academic standards. Average class size predicted only 10% of variation in 13 year-olds' mean mathematics scores in 14 nations supplying reasonable comprehensive sampling frames for International Assessment of Academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Education, Expenditure per Student, Foreign Countries
Misrepresentations and Idiosyncratic Methodology.
Stotts, Ruth – Phi Delta Kappan, 1993
Richard Jaeger owes "Kappan" readers apology for violating ethics of his profession in deliberately propagating erroneous information. Jaeger rejects the positive correlation of large class size with high mathematics test scores in Korea and Taiwan and ignores Japan, another high-scoring nation with high class sizes. However, Jaeger…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Comparative Education, Expenditure per Student