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ERIC Number: EJ586994
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-189X
What Is an Exemplary Program, and Why Should Anyone Care? A Reaction to Slavin and Klein.
Pogrow, Stanley
Educational Researcher, v27 n7 p22-29 Oct 1998
Explores issues in evaluating exemplary programs, including the measurement of the degree to which the program is exemplary or promising. Suggests that comparison (control) group analysis can mislead researchers about the effectiveness of a program and suggests the use of gain scores to identify exemplary programs. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Control Groups, Evaluation Methods, Experimental Groups, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Research Methodology
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Gain Scores
Note: Comments on previous articles by R. Slavin and S. Klein on design competitions ("Educational Researcher" v26 n6 p12-20, v26 n1 p22-29, and v26 n6 p21-22.