http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/01/lost-in-translation.html Education News, Analysis, and Commentary Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:45:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/01/lost-in-translation.html/comment-page-1#comment-346 Anonymous Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:49:00 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/wordpress/2008/01/lost-in-translation.html#comment-346 It should also be up to the reader to determine the validity of the essay and the research included within it. So read cautiously. It should also be up to the reader to determine the validity of the essay and the research included within it. So read cautiously.

]]> http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/01/lost-in-translation.html/comment-page-1#comment-326 Lori Crouch Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:21:00 +0000 http://www.eduwonk.com/wordpress/2008/01/lost-in-translation.html#comment-326 Just FYI, the Education Writers Association provides an annual intensive three-day bootcamp for reporters to learn about education research and statistics, the terminology, uses and misuses of statistics, causation v. correlation, among other issues. The 20 reporters who have to compete to get into the bootcamp come out (we hope) with a better understanding of how to gauge the plethora of education research reports that comes across their desks or across their editors' wires. Just FYI, the Education Writers Association provides an annual intensive three-day bootcamp for reporters to learn about education research and statistics, the terminology, uses and misuses of statistics, causation v. correlation, among other issues. The 20 reporters who have to compete to get into the bootcamp come out (we hope) with a better understanding of how to gauge the plethora of education research reports that comes across their desks or across their editors’ wires.

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