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Elsevier and qui tam lawsuits?
Is there anyone else horrified by the Elsevier journal scam waiting not just for academic righteousness but legal action in the U.S. based on the False Claims Act? If federal money was entangled at all in any of the journal nonsense, statements made by any of the fraudulent Elsevier journals could conceivably implicate the publisher […]
Research blog started
For those who want to walk into the weeds with me on a new research project, feel free to follow my new research blog hosted at USF. Dorn’s dangerously public research blog has the subtitle “conducting research without a net,” and I am likely to fail in public view. [Update 4/20/09: the blog server’s database […]
Migration and graduation
I’m experimenting with publishing working papers on the Social Science Research Network, with the first one, Migration and Graduation Measures, freely downloadable on some technical issues with graduation rates. The gist: without knowing accurate information about migration (and transfers), non-longitudinal graduation rates are going to be inherently problematic.
Grokking social-science statistics
Several comments in the past few weeks have expressed some wonder that I use statistics when I am publicly skeptical of several policy-related uses of education statistics. I am a little confused by the comments (and implicit accusation of inconsistency), since many of the most articulate critics of high-stakes testing are assessment experts, but for […]
Stationary population models and graduation
In odd moments in the last few weeks, I’ve been playing around with a standard demographic concept, the stationary population model. This is one of those things that don’t really exist in reality, a population with constant mortality and fertility rates, with no migration in or out, and where the population is the same every […]