Measuring the Effects of Study Abroad
In the higher education advocacy business, an unhappily large proportion of the research used is of the correlation = causation type. For instance, many claim that higher education has lots of social benefits like lower crime rates and higher rates of community volunteering on the grounds that outcomes of graduates are better than outcomes of non-graduates in these areas. But this is shaky. There are very few studies which look at this carefully enough to eliminate selection bias – that
September 13, 2016
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