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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Use of Propensity Score Matching for Training Research with Observational Data
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Gemici, Sinan; Rojewski, Jay W.; Lee, In Heok – International Journal of Training Research, 2012
Evaluations of vocational education and training (VET) programs play a key role in informing training policy in Australia and elsewhere. Increasingly, such evaluations use observational data from surveys or administrative collections to assess the effectiveness of VET programs and interventions. The difficulty associated with using observational…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Probability, Statistical Analysis
A Primer for Handling Missing Values in the Analysis of Education and Training Data
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Gemici, Sinan; Bednarz, Alice; Lim, Patrick – International Journal of Training Research, 2012
Quantitative research in vocational education and training (VET) is routinely affected by missing or incomplete information. However, the handling of missing data in published VET research is often sub-optimal, leading to a real risk of generating results that can range from being slightly biased to being plain wrong. Given that the growing…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Research, Data, Statistical Analysis