Browsing by Author "R. Dale Ballou"
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Stuit, David Alan (2009-10-15)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe objective of this dissertation is to understand the circumstances under which non-experimental methods yield unbiased estimates of the effect of magnet school attendance on student achievement. This dissertation has ...
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Frisvold, David E. (2006-04-18)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation considers individuals’ behavioral responses to two major forms of public investment in education designed to increase educational opportunities: Head Start and reductions in class size. Head Start ...
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Fang, Meisha (2010-04-16)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesPublic schools have been found to be inefficient in producing education outcomes. Few studies, however, have investigated the sources of inefficiency in education. Lack of accountability is a possible contributing factor. ...
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Nicotera, Anna Charise (2014-03-29)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThe purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate the public school choice provision of the federal 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), a policy that widened the availability of public school choice options in the United ...
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Doan, Quoc-Sy Vinh (2019-07-17)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesClassroom observations are the most widely used K-12 teacher evaluation measure in the United States. However, far less is known about the properties of observation scores relative to student test score-based measures such ...