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Direct linkSlavin, Robert E. – European Educational Research Journal, 2008
If education is to make significant progress in the twenty-first century, it must embrace evidence-based reforms. Perhaps the most important requirement for evidence-based reform is the development of a substantial set of replicable programs and practices with strong evidence of effectiveness. Educators and policy makers must have a variety of…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Incentives, Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedSlavin, Robert E. – Educational Researcher, 1997
Responds to Sue Klein's comparative analysis on Design Competitions and Expert Panels (Educational Research, 1997) in which the author addresses drawbacks of the Expert Panels approach to educational product evaluation. Cautions that the approach is so minimalist a strategy that it could inhibit more serious attempts to build a system based on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSlavin, Robert E. – Educational Researcher, 1997
Proposes the need for a design competition system (DCS) in federally funded educational research and development and discusses the key issues that a DCS must address in methodology. Also addresses the high cost of using a DCS and whether such costs can be justified. Concludes that a DCS is justified and necessary. (GR)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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
Peer reviewedSlavin, Robert E. – Educational Researcher, 1990
Explores reasons for the tenuous relationship between educational research and educational practice. Suggests changes in research and policy to bring educational research directly to bear on educational problems. The major problem is that researchers are searching for variables that relate to improved outcomes, whereas educational innovators are…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Improvement Programs
Download full textSlavin, Robert E. – 1992
It is proposed that schools receiving funds under Chapter 1 (Hawkins Stafford Act 1988) be required to spend at least 20 percent of their allocations on staff development. High-quality staff development programs would enable schools to improve instruction all day for all students. Chapter 1 schools would become centers of educational renewal and…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Finance, Educational Practices
