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Resources, Instruction, and Research

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Title
Resources, Instruction, and Research
Abstract/Description
Many researchers who study the relations between school resources and student achievement have worked from a causal model, which typically is implicit. In this model, some resource or set of resources is the causal variable and student achievement is the outcome. In a few recent, more nuanced versions, resource effects depend on intervening influences on their use. We argue for a model in which the key causal agents are situated in instruction; achievement is their outcome. Conventional resources can enable or constrain the causal agents in instruction, thus moderating their impact on student achievement. Because these causal agents interact in ways that are unlikely to be sorted out by multivariate analysis of naturalistic data, experimental trials of distinctive instructional systems are more likely to offer solid evidence on instructional effects.
Author/creator
Cohen, David K.
Raudenbush, Stephen W.
Ball, Deborah Loewenberg
Date
2003
In publication
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Volume
25
Issue
2
Pages
119-142
Resource type
en Background/Context
Medium
en Print
Background/context type
en Policy
en Conceptual
Keywords
experiments
instructional effects
research and policy
school effects
Open access/free-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en Yes
Language
en
ISSN
0162-3737
DOI
10.3102/01623737025002119
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals)
Full-text PDF Shared by Author (Academia.edu)
Citation
Cohen, D. K., Raudenbush, S. W., & Ball, D. L. (2003). Resources, Instruction, and Research. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 25(2), 119–142. https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737025002119
Cited in
The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement
Critical Social Network Analysis as a Method for Examining How Power Mediates Improvement Efforts
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Theoretical
Abbreviation
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
Item sets
Oxford Bibliography: The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement
Handbook Chapter 17 Citations
Handbook Chapter 19 Citations

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