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Ecological fallacies encountered in the use of published aggregate level basic skills achievement reports
| dc.contributor.advisor | McNamara, James F. | |
| dc.creator | Gardner, David Walton | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-21T22:13:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-21T22:13:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1979 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-718609 | |
| dc.description | Vita. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The proliferation of aggregate basic skills achievement reporting without consideration of the problems associated with aggregate data poses potential problems for urban school districts participating in this practice. This inquiry examines one such administrative reporting system, the Houston Independent School District's Elementary School Profiles, within the context of the policy environment for which it is designed. As no previous research has attempted to link the literature dealing with the problems associated with ecological inference with the practice of aggregate basic skills reporting, this inquiry has taken the form of exploratory research. With this intent, six sequential tasks provide the structure of this inquiry. ... | en |
| dc.format.extent | xi, 235 leaves | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Major educational administration | en |
| dc.subject | Education and state | en |
| dc.subject | Educational planning | en |
| dc.subject | Educational reports | en |
| dc.subject | School districts | en |
| dc.subject | Evaluation | en |
| dc.subject.classification | 1979 Dissertation G226 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Educational reports | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Education and state | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Educational planning | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | School districts | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Evaluation | en |
| dc.title | Ecological fallacies encountered in the use of published aggregate level basic skills achievement reports | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
| dc.type.genre | dissertations | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
| dc.publisher.digital | Texas A&M University. Libraries | |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 6509555 |
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