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Chatterji, Madhabi – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background: Much is still unknown or unclear about how and where validity issues arise in high stakes testing situations in education, and ways by which we can rectify validity problems in practice and policy contexts. Purpose: This paper is the Foreword to the Special Section in the "Teachers College Record," titled, "When…
Descriptors: Validity, High Stakes Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Scores
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Chatterji, Madhabi – American Journal of Evaluation, 2007
This article argues with a literature review that a simplistic distinction between strong and weak evidence hinged on the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the federal "gold standard" for generating rigorous evidence on social programs and policies, is not tenable with evaluative studies of complex, field interventions such as…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Research Design
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Chatterji, Madhabi – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2005
In light of the NCLB Act of 2001, this study estimated mathematics achievement gaps in different subgroups of kindergartners and first graders, and identified child- and school-level correlates and moderators of early mathematics achievement. A subset of 2300 students nested in 182 schools from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study K-First Grade…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Class Size, Poverty
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Chatterji, Madhabi; Kwon, Young Ae; Sng, Clarice – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2006
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 requires that public schools adopt research-supported programs and practices, with a strong recommendation for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) as the "gold standard" for scientific rigor in empirical research. Within that policy framework, this paper compares the relative utility of…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis