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More than a Checkmark

MIND Research Institute

If you’re merely looking to check a box saying “It has evidence” before you commit to a program, you’re asking for something that can be generated by any program. To measure recent program impact in Texas , we used quasi-experimental methods to compare the growth of ST Math students versus matched comparisons within the same subgroup.

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The dark side of education research: widespread bias

The Hechinger Report

There are a number of reasons for why developer studies tend to show stronger results, according to Wolf, whose full time work is to evaluate educational programs. The first is that a company is unlikely to publish unfavorable results. ” A second common issue is how students are kept out of experiments.

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