Page 1 CONDUCTING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH series editor: Harry Torrance Using
Secondary Data in Educational and Social Research Emma Smith Page 2 Using Secondary …

OBJECTIVE: Comparisons of the performance of multiple health care providers are often
based on hypothesis tests, those with resulting P-values below some critical threshold being …

Whereas findings from recent research highlight the importance of teacher quality in
improving students' academic performances and experiences of schooling, substantive and …

Background The relationship between physicians' cognitive skill and the delivery of
evidence-based processes of care is not well characterized. Therefore, we set out to …

There is growing concern that almost 20 years after the 1988 Education Act, top‐down, large‐
scale reform has stalled. The policy mix of choice, competition, markets, regulation …

Multilevel models have gained wide acceptance over the past 20 years in many fields,
including education and medicine [eg, 26, 43, 45], as an important methodology for dealing …

School league tables are eagerly scanned by parents hoping to find the best school for their
child, and by teachers hoping to see their school rise in the rankings. But do they tell parents …

A statistical model is proposed for the analysis of peer-review ratings of R01 grant
applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health. Innovations of this model include …

Background: A single composite measure calculated from individual quality indicators (QIs)
is a useful measure of hospital performance and can be justified conceptually even when …

Parental choice among schools in England is informed by annually published school
performance (league) tables. The 2006 league tables included a measure of contextual …