Publications: Research Issues

NEPC Review: Comparing Ed Reforms: Assessing the Experimental Research on Nine K-12 Education Reforms (EdChoice, April 2020)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 27, 2020

Community Research Collaboratives

Policy Memo

Adam York, Siomara Valladares, Michelle Renée Valladares, Jon Snyder, and Matt Garcia

March 24, 2020

NEPC Review: Money for Nothing: The Relationship Between Various Types of School Spending and Academic Outcomes (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, August 2018)

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

October 11, 2018

NEPC Review: Balancing Act: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Racial Imbalance (Brookings Institution, November 2017)

NEPC Review

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Erica Frankenberg

February 8, 2018

NEPC Review: School District Reform in Newark (National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber and Bruce D. Baker

December 14, 2017

Might the New Gates Education Initiative Close Opportunity Gaps?

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

December 12, 2017

NEPC Review: Charter Management Organizations 2017 (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), June 2017)

NEPC Review

Gary Miron and Christopher Shank

September 7, 2017

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

Review of Measuring School Turnaround Success

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo and Marialena Rivera

July 20, 2016

NEPC Review: Dramatic Action, Dramatic Improvement: The Research on School Turnaround (Center for American Progress, March 2015)

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo

May 11, 2015

NEPC Review: Measuring and Understanding Education Advocacy (Brookings Institution, March 2015)

NEPC Review

Robin Rogers and Sara Goldrick-Rab

April 16, 2015

Review of Turning Lightning into Electricity

NEPC Review

Mark R. Warren

February 2, 2015

NEPC Review: National Charter School Study 2013 (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), August 2013)

NEPC Review

Andrew Maul and Abby McClelland

July 16, 2013

Review of Middle Class or Middle of the Pack

NEPC Review

Martin Carnoy

June 4, 2013

Review of Evaluation of Teach for America in Texas Schools

NEPC Review

Ed Fuller and Nathan Dadey

April 9, 2013

Review of Two Articles on Principal Effects

NEPC Review

Margaret Terry Orr

March 5, 2013

Researchers as Resources: A List of Experts Who Can Speak to the Overall Knowledge Base on Important Education Issues

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner, William J. Mathis, and Alex Molnar

January 23, 2012

Productivity Research, the U.S. Department of Education, and High-Quality Evidence

Policy Brief

Kevin G. Welner and Bruce D. Baker

December 15, 2011

NEPC Review: Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems (April 2011)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 18, 2011

Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers

Research Brief

Derek C. Briggs and Ben Domingue

February 8, 2011

NEPC Review: Learning About Teaching (December 2010)

NEPC Review

Jesse Rothstein

January 13, 2011

NEPC Review: Stuck Schools: A Framework for Identifying Schools Where Students Need Change - Now (Education Trust, February 2010)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

April 7, 2010

The Research that Reaches the Public: Who Produces the Educational Research Mentioned in the News Media?

Research Brief

Holly Kurtz

July 27, 2009

The Overselling of Growth Modeling

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

June 1, 2008

School Choice: Evidence and Recommendations

Policy Brief

David Arsen, Clive Belfield, Marisa Cannata, Wendy C. Chi, Casey Cobb, Stephanie Evergreen, Gregg Garn, Christopher Lubienski, Julie F. Mead, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Gary Miron, Yongmei Ni, Stephanie Southworth, Jessica Urschel, and Terri S. Wilson

March 20, 2008

The Privatization Infatuation

Legacy Publication

Kevin G. Welner and Alex Molnar

February 20, 2008

NEPC Review: Whole Language High Jinks: How to Tell When 'Scientifically-Based Reading Instruction' Isn't (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2007)

NEPC Review

Richard Allington

February 14, 2007

Truthiness in Education

Legacy Publication

Kevin G. Welner and Alex Molnar

January 1, 2007

Money Mutterers

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2007

Diagnostic Assessment with Ordered Multiple-Choice Items

Resource Document

Derek C. Briggs, Alicia Alonzo, Cheryl Schwab, and Mark Wilson

January 1, 2006

Book Review: The SAGE Handbook of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Resource Document

Derek C. Briggs

January 1, 2006

Reforming the Doctoral Program in Education Research at the University of Colorado. In C. Hancock & P. Paul (Eds.), Essays on th

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart

January 1, 2005

Science Plus: A Response to the Responses to Scientific Research in Education

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart

January 1, 2005

New Approaches to Using Census Data to Test the Critical Period Hypothesis for Second Language Acquisition

Resource Document

Edward W. Wiley and E. Bialystok

January 1, 2005

Hammers and Saws for the Improvement of Education Research

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart

January 1, 2005

A Critique of Experimentalism

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 2004

Toward a Critical Deliberative Strategy for Addressing Ideology in Educational Policy Processes

Resource Document

Michele S. Moses and M. Gair

January 1, 2004

The Science of Professional Development

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 2004

Causal Inference and the Heckman Model

Resource Document

Derek C. Briggs

January 1, 2004

Critical Evidence: A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Second Language Acquisition

Resource Document

K. Hakuta, E. Bialystok, and Edward W. Wiley

January 1, 2003

Research Worth Knowing

Legacy Publication

Alex Molnar

January 1, 2003

Breaking the Code: Colorado's Defeat of the Anti-Bilingual Education Initiative (Amendment 31)

Resource Document

Kathy Escamilla, Sheila Shannon, Silvana Carlos, and J. García

January 1, 2003

An Introduction to Multidimensional Measurement using Rasch Models

Resource Document

Derek C. Briggs and Mark Wilson

January 1, 2003

Research: Researching the Researchers

Resource Document

February 20, 2002

Comment: Jack Kaplan's New Study of SAT Teaching

Resource Document

Derek C. Briggs

January 1, 2002

The Heart of the Matter: Philosophy and Educational Research

Resource Document

Michele S. Moses

January 1, 2002

The Transformation of Ethnographic Practices: Past and Current Challenges

Resource Document

Margaret D. LeCompte

January 1, 2002

SAT Coaching, Bias and Causal Inference

Resource Document

Derek C. Briggs

January 1, 2002

Test Preparation Programs: Impact

Resource Document

Derek C. Briggs

January 1, 2002

Free Market Free-for-All

Legacy Publication

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 2002

The Media and Educational Research: What We Know vs. What the Public Hears

Policy Brief

Alex Molnar

January 1, 2001

Let the Buyer Beware

Research Brief

Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Alex Molnar, and Katie Embree

January 1, 2001

Does Paid Employment Help or Hinder Performance in Secondary School? Insights from U.S. High School Students

Resource Document

D. Stern and Derek C. Briggs

January 1, 2001

Assessing the Writing of Spanish Speaking Students: Issues and Suggestions

Resource Document

Maria Coady and Kathy Escamilla

January 1, 2001

Educational Ethnography Past, Present, and Future: Ideas to Think With

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart

January 1, 2001

The Effect of Admissions Test Preparation: Evidence from NELS-88

Resource Document

Derek C. Briggs

January 1, 2001

Changing Conceptions of Culture and Ethnographic Methodology: Recent Thematic Shifts and their Implications for Research

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart

January 1, 2001

Changing Admissions Policies: Mounting Pressures, New Developments, More Questions

Resource Document

Derek C. Briggs and D. Stern

January 1, 2001

Note On Sources of Sampling Variability in Science Performance Assessments

Resource Document

R. J. Shavelson, Edward W. Wiley, and M. A. Ruiz-Primo

January 1, 1999

Ethics in Educational Research

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 1999

On the Subject of Interpretive Reviews

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart

January 1, 1998

The Interpretive Turn and the New Debate in Education

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 1998

The Centrality of Test Use and Consequences for Test Validity

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1997

Conceptual Knowledge Falls through the Cracks: Complexities of Learning to Teach Mathematics for Understanding

Resource Document

R. Underhill, Hilda Borko, Margaret Eisenhart, C. Brown, D. Jones, and P. Agard

January 1, 1993

Ethics, Institutional Review Boards, and the Changing Face of Educational Research

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 1993

Evaluating Test Validity

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1993

Commentary: What Policymakers Who Mandate Tests Should Know About the New Psychology of Intellectual Ability and Learning

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1992

Validity in Educational Research

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 1992

Learning to Teach Hard Mathematics: Do Novice Teachers and Their Instructors Give Up Too Easily?

Resource Document

Hilda Borko, R. Underhill, C. Brown, Margaret Eisenhart, P. Agard, and D. Jones

January 1, 1992

Getting Over the Quantitative-Qualitative Debate

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 1992

Standards for Qualitative (and Quantitative) Research: A Prolegomenon

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 1990

Against the Quantitative-Qualitative Incompatibility Thesis (Or Dogmas Die Hard)

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 1988

The Ethnographic Research Tradition and Mathematics Education Research

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart

January 1, 1988

The Inadequacy of ANOVA for Detecting Test Bias

Resource Document

Gregory Camilli

January 1, 1987

Bias in the Biography: Bias and Subjectivity in Ethnographic Research

Resource Document

Margaret D. LeCompte

January 1, 1987