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A Policymaker's Primer on education research: how to understand, evaluate and use it: the Education Commission of the States, Midcontinent Research for Education and Learning.


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 and others better understand and evaluate education research. It provides an overview of research methods and statistics, flash animation animation

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, hot links to examples, pop-up definitions of technical terms, an education research glossary A term used by Microsoft Word and adopted by other word processors for the list of shorthand, keyboard macros created by a particular user. See glossaries in this publication and The Computer Glossary.  and tools to guide users through an assessment of research studies. It also includes two tutorials on understanding statistics and researching the ERIC database.

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