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Brown, Seth; Song, Mengli; Cook, Thomas D.; Garet, Michael S. – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
This study examined bias reduction in the eight nonequivalent comparison group designs (NECGDs) that result from combining (a) choice of a local versus non-local comparison group, and analytic use or not of (b) a pretest measure of the study outcome and (c) a rich set of other covariates. Bias was estimated as the difference in causal estimate…
Descriptors: Research Design, Pretests Posttests, Computation, Bias
Song, Mengli; Garet, Michael S.; Yang, Rui; Atchison, Drew – American Educational Research Journal, 2022
This study was designed to assess the effects of states' adoption of more rigorous standards as part of the current wave of standards-based reform on student achievement using comparative interrupted time series analyses based on state-level NAEP data from 1990 to 2017. Results show that the effects of adopting more rigorous standards on students'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Academic Standards, National Competency Tests