Education Week

Morality, Validity, and the Design of Instructionally Sensitive Tests

The first reason for caring about how sensitive our standardized tests are to instruction is moral. If the tests we use to judge the effects of instruction on student learning are not sensitive to ...
Education Week

Let’s Mend, Not End, Educational Testing

The Common Core State Standards and accompanying K-12 assessments have recently sparked a fierce national backlash against testing. Sound educational testing and assessment are integral to good ...
Princeton University

Supplementary Material for "Valid t-ratio Inference for IV"

1. What is the problem with the typical use and interpretation of the t-ratio for inference in just-identified IV models? Practitioners typically use the critical values ±1.96 for the IV t-ratio when ...
JSTOR Daily

The Validity of Inferences of Sex-Selective Infanticide, Abortion and Neglect from Unusual Reported Sex Ratios at Birth

European Journal of Population addresses a broad public of researchers, policy makers and others concerned with population processes and their consequences. Its aim is to improve understanding of ...
lse

Introduction to Logic

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Philosophy and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics ...