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Decomposing Treatment Effect Variation
(Informa UK Limited, 2018)Understanding and characterizing treatment effect variation in randomized experiments has become essential for going beyond the "black box" of the average treatment effect. Nonetheless, traditional statistical approaches ... -
Decontextualized Language Input and Preschoolers' Vocabulary Development
(Thieme Publishing Group, 2013)This article discusses the importance of using decontextualized language, or language that is removed from the here and now including pretend, narrative, and explanatory talk, with preschool children. The literature on ... -
Delayed Effects of a Low-Cost and Large-Scale Summer Reading Intervention on Elementary School Children’s Reading Comprehension.
(Taylor and Francis, 2016)To improve the reading comprehension outcomes of children in high poverty schools, policymakers need to identify reading interventions that show promise of effectiveness at scale. This study evaluated the effectiveness ... -
Democracy, Accountability, and Education
(SAGE, 2011)Educational standards, assessments, and accountability systems are of immense political moment around the world. But there is no developed theory exploring the role that these systems should play within a democratic polity ... -
Democratizing Education? Examining Access and Usage Patterns in Massive Open Online Courses
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2015)Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are often characterized as remedies to educational disparities related to social class. Using data from 68 MOOCs offered by Harvard and MIT between 2012 and 2014, we found that course ... -
Demystifying Differentiated Instruction
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The Dependence of Growth-Model Results on Proficiency Cut Scores
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)States participating in the Growth Model Pilot Program reference individual student growth against “proficiency” cut scores that conform with the original No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Although achievement results from ... -
Describing bilinguals: A systematic review of labels and descriptions used in the literature between 2005–2015
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017)Recent years have seen a surge in research comparing bilinguals to monolinguals, yet synthesizing this literature is complicated by the diversity of language and social backgrounds behind these dichotomous labels. The ... -
Descriptive Statistics for Modern Test Score Distributions: Skewness, Kurtosis, Discreteness, and Ceiling Effects
(SAGE Publications, 2014)Many statistical analyses benefit from the assumption that unconditional or conditional distributions are continuous and normal. Over fifty years ago in this journal, Lord (1955) and Cook (1959) chronicled departures from ... -
Developing questionnaires for educational research: AMEE Guide No. 87
(Informa UK Ltd., 2014)In this AMEE Guide, we consider the design and development of self-administered surveys, commonly called questionnaires. Questionnaires are widely employed in medical education research. Unfortunately, the processes used ... -
Development and validation of an early childhood development scale for use in low-resourced settings
(Springer Nature, 2017)Background:Low-cost, cross-culturally comparable measures of the motor, cognitive, and socioemotional skills of children under 3 years remain scarce. In the present paper, we aim to develop a new caregiver-reported early ... -
Development of Sensitivity to Geometry in Visual Forms
(Springer Verlag, 2009)Geometric form perception has been extensively studied in human children, but it has not been systematically characterized from the perspective of formal geometry. Here, we present the findings of three experiments that ... -
The Developmental Impact of Two First Grade Preventive Interventions on Aggressive/Disruptive Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence: An Application of Latent Transition Growth Mixture Modeling
(2011)We examine the impact of two universal preventive interventions in first grade on the growth of aggressive/disruptive behavior in grades 1–3 and 6–12 through the application of a latent transition growth mixture model ... -
Differences in Early Gesture Explain SES Disparities in Child Vocabulary Size at School Entry
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009)Children from low–socioeconomic status (SES) families, on average, arrive at school with smaller vocabularies than children from high-SES families. In an effort to identify precursors to, and possible remedies for, this ... -
Discrepancies Between Score Trends from NAEP and State Tests: A Scale-Invariant Perspective
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2007)State test score trends are widely interpreted as indicators of educational improvement. To validate these interpretations, state test score trends are often compared to trends on other tests such as the National Assessment ... -
Discreteness Causes Bias in Percentage-Based Comparisons: A Case Study From Educational Testing
(Informa UK Limited, 2015)Discretizing continuous distributions can lead to bias in parameter estimates. We present a case study from educational testing that illustrates dramatic consequences of discreteness when discretizing partitions differ ... -
Disrupted Data: Using Longitudinal Assessment Systems to Monitor Test Score Quality
(Wiley, 2022-02-03)Technical documentation for educational tests focuses primarily on properties of individual scores at single points in time. Reliability, standard errors of measurement, item parameter estimates, fit statistics, and linking ... -
Diversity and Civic Education
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Do More Effective Teachers Earn More Outside of the Classroom?
(CESifo Group Munich, 2010)We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001–02 and 2006–07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4–8 teachers ...