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Showing 39 reports filtered by "Indiana" sorted by date added . Show All Reports
Education and Literacy
Distills evaluations of a state program to promote college preparation and access for low-income students. Assesses links between preparation courses and college attendance and completion, successful support practices, and retention efforts.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Indiana
Education and Literacy
Distills evaluations of a state program to promote college preparation and access for low-income students. Assesses links between preparation courses and college attendance and completion, successful support practices, and retention efforts.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Indiana
Education and Literacy;Government Reform
Presents results of a survey of central Indiana's National Merit Scholars on their college and career choices, as well as their views on factors for academic success, the importance of teachers, and priorities for improving the educational system.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Indiana
Education and Literacy;Government Reform
Presents results of a survey of central Indiana's National Merit Scholars on their college and career choices, as well as their views on factors for academic success, the importance of teachers, and priorities for improving the educational system.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Indiana
Education and Literacy;Government Reform
Presents results of a survey of central Indiana's National Merit Scholars on their college and career choices, as well as their views on factors for academic success, the importance of teachers, and priorities for improving the educational system.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America / United States (Midwestern) / Indiana
Education and Literacy
We use non-experimental data from a large panel of schools and districts in Indiana to evaluate the impacts of math curricula on student achievement. Using matching methods, we obtain causal estimates of curriculum effects at just a fraction of what it would cost to produce experimental estimates. Furthermore, external validity concerns that are particularly cogent in experimental curricular evaluations suggest that our non-experimental estimates may be preferred. In the short term, we find large differences in effectiveness across some math curricula. However, as with many other educational inputs, the effects of math curricula do not persist over time. Across curriculum adoption cycles, publishers that produce less effective curricula in one cycle do not lose market share in the next cycle. One explanation for this result is the dearth of information available to administrators about curricular effectiveness.
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Midwestern)-Indiana
Education and Literacy, Government Reform
Lee's review of this report finds it relies on misleading data and unreliable methodology. Lee indicates that, "the report's methods are so simplistic, arbitrary and poorly fitting to the report's own assumptions that it is more harmful to sound policymaking than helpful."
August 1970
Geographic Focus: North America-United States (Midwestern)-Indiana, North America-United States (Southern)-Maryland
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