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R!
A graduate student in biostats here is willing to tutor me in R (the open-source equivalent of S-Plus). Yes, faculty need to learn additional things, and sometimes that requires tutoring/coaching. For me, those realms include music, martial arts, and now new stats packages. And because my college wants guinea pigs for its exercise-training classes, I’m […]
Hechinger Institute hypes the obvious — this is a role model for reporters??
I received an e-mail advertisement for a “webinar” on “The Dropout Crisis” from the Hechinger Institute. This is an organization that claims it “exists to equip journalists with the knowledge and skills they need to produce fair, accurate and insightful reporting.” Both the e-mail and the webpage for the seminar claim that “new research shows […]
The world is complicated, part 752
So the Center for Research on Education Outcomes has a report on charter-school performance, the Center on Education Policy has released a report on student achievement trends, NAEP released art-education data, and the spin has begun. Missing from almost all the reporting: Statements about the extent of peer reviewing for any of these reports. I’m […]
On graduation rates and auditing state databases
I sympathize with Florida’s Deputy Commissioner of Education Jeff Sellers, finding himself defending the state’s official graduation rate the week that Education Week published its Swanson-index issue and pointed to Florida as a low-graduation state, using numbers far below the state’s official numbers. Some perspective: Florida’s official graduation rate is inflated, but it’s still better […]
Unhappy with my brain right now
Fuzzy logic Responders/nonresponders Donald Rubin and multiple imputation Dichotomous variables Record linkage: whether a linkage allows one to determine outcome Limits Category theory You have now been infected. That is all (for now).