Deconstructing Quality in Education Research

Deconstructing RAND : Education Next

In the summer of 2000, perfectly timed to shape the election debate over education reform, came a new RAND study that claimed to contradict the conventional research wisdom on the connection between school expenditures and class size on the one hand and student achievement on the other. “Our results certainly challenge the traditional view of public education as ‘unreformable,’” the study’s dir...

Deconstructing racial differences: the effects of quality of education and cerebrovascular risk factors.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of vascular conditions and education quality on cognition over time in White and African American (AA) older adults. METHOD We investigated cross-sectional and longitudinal racial differences in executive functioning (EF) and memory composites among Whites (n = 461) and AAs (n = 118) enrolled in a cohort study. We examined whether cerebrovascular risk factor...

Research in Echocardiography Education: Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

Research in Echocardiography Education: Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

Cognition, culture, and credibility: deconstructing feedback in medical education

Although feedback has been widely endorsed as an essential facilitator of learning [1–4], there have been few systematic investigations of how it becomes meaningful for learners. In this thesis, we address this important gap through a series of studies exploring feedback in the medical education setting. Defining feedback broadly as information about a learner’s performance, and drawing on the ...

Teaching Quality in Higher Education: Literature Review and Qualitative Research