Research Warning Label: Analysis contains inadequate measurement of student poverty
I’ll likely regret writing this post at some point. But this is a really, really important issue and one that undermines a very large number of prominent research studies on the effectiveness of various school reforms, especially when evaluated in high poverty contexts.
I blogged about this a few weeks back – the problems of poverty measurement in educational research. But this issue continues to come up in e-mails and other conversations. And it’s a critically important issue that so many researchers callously overlook. My sensitivity to this issue is heightened by the potential problems emergent from using bad poverty measurement in models
Posted on April 27, 2011 by schoolfinance101
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