Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Research Warning Label: Analysis contains inadequate measurement of student poverty « School Finance 101

Research Warning Label: Analysis contains inadequate measurement of student poverty « School Finance 101

Research Warning Label: Analysis contains inadequate measurement of student poverty

Posted on April 27, 2011 by schoolfinance101

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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