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Direct linkHarris, Douglas N.; Goldrick-Rab, Sara – Education Finance and Policy, 2012
Given scarce resources for evaluation, we recommend that education researchers more frequently conduct comprehensive randomized trials that generate evidence on how, why, and under what conditions interventions succeed or fail in producing effects. Recent experience evaluating a randomized need-based financial aid intervention highlights some of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Productivity, Experiments, Research Methodology
Harris, Douglas N.; Rutledge, Stacey A.; Ingle, William K.; Thompson, Cynthia C. – Education Finance and Policy, 2010
The vast majority of research and policy related to teacher quality focuses on the supply of teachers and ignores teacher demand. In particular, the important role of school principals in hiring teachers is rarely considered. Using interviews of school principals in a midsized Florida school district, we provide an exploratory mixed methods…
Descriptors: Principals, Teacher Selection, Teacher Characteristics, Intelligence
Harris, Douglas N. – Education Finance and Policy, 2009
Annual student testing may make it possible to measure the contributions to student achievement made by individual teachers. But would these "teacher value-added" measures help to improve student achievement? I consider the statistical validity, purposes, and costs of teacher value-added policies. Many of the key assumptions of teacher value added…
Descriptors: Credentials, Educational Testing, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis
