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Voices In Education, Marlene Schommer

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Veteran leaders of education, as well as some new leaders, were directly asked by the author to respond to the following two questions. Their Reaction and Impact estimates are summarized below. The "leader" is identified at the end of the responses.

I. a. What are the two most critical issues in K -12 education that should be addressed in the next five years?

b. Why do you think they are the most critical?

Special Program Issue October 2-5, 1996, Kim K. Metcalf

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Special Program Issue

Estimating The Reliability Of Criterion-Referenced Tests Before Administration, Clint Chase

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

The classical procedures for calculating the two indexes of decision consistency (P and Kappa) for criterion-referenced tests require two testings on each child. Huynh and Peng & Subkoviak have presented one-testing procedures for these indexes. This article shows how these indices can be estimated without any test administration using Ebel's estimates of the mean, standard deviation and KR₂₁.

Research In Action: Becoming A Better Teacher, Jack Snowman

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Greg Marchant, a past editor of MWER, and now an Associate Editor of the Newsletter for Educational Psychologists posed the following question to anyone who cared to answer: "Why are research results in educational psychology seldom reflected in educational policies, and what can be done to improve the application of research findings to practice?". Several respondents noted that while there are numerous examples of research findings that can easily be turned into useful classroom applications, many of them languish in our academic journals because they are written by researchers, for researchers, and in the language of researchers. This column has …