School reform: Independent variable or dependent measure?

Faculty Satisfaction in ALNs: A Dependent or Independent Variable?

The authors describe relationships among infrastructure, student outcomes, and faculty satisfaction at the University of Central Florida (UCF). The model focuses on a developmental process that progresses from courses with some Web presence to those that are driven by ALN. Faculty receive support for on-line teaching in the form of release time for training and development, upgraded hardware, a...

Nicaragua’s School Autonomy Reform: Fact or Fiction?

This study reviews Nicaragua's school autonomy reform -whether or not the public schools that joined the reform really exercise greater autonomy over their own management and operations than traditional public schools, and whether or not the local stakeholders in the so-called autonomous schools perceive an increase in their influence over school decisions. De jure autonomy, that is, whether a ...

Linear regression, the normal distribution of error values or normal distribution of the dependent variable?

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No . 042 School Reform – Programs or Packages ? Presented

School Reform, School Size, and Student Achievement

by Randall W. Eberts, Ellen Kehoe Schwartz, and Joe A. Stone Randall W. Eberts is an assistant vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Ellen Kehoe Schwartz is a research evaluator with the General Accounting Office; and Joe A. Stone is the W.E. Miner Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon. This work was supported in part by the National Institute of Ed...