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• Investigating forensics

  Mejia comprehensively explains crime lab investigations. She suggests what questions to start with, what types of tests to examine, online resources, sources to interview, and documents to find.

  Tags: crime labs; law enforcement; forensics; science; criminal justice system; courts; FBI; police

  By Robin Mejia

  2006

• Grading schools with CAR, on and off deadline

  Hacker provides advice for managing and analyzing education data. She points out specific types of data to flag and follow up on, and offers time management tips.

  Tags: education; data; CAR; schools; standardized tests; dropout rates; graduation; NCLB

  By Holly Hacker

  2006

• Doing your own laboratory testing

  Katches, Roe and Barry's tipsheet offers extensive guidance for conducting investigations that involve laboratory testing. The suggestions aim to ensure validity of scientific investigations and make them as affordable, efficient and useful as possible. Katches, Roe and Barry each have conducted award-winning investigations using laboratories.

  Tags: science; laboratories; mercury; pollution; toxic waste; dumping; lead poisoning

  By Sam Roe, Jan Barry, Mark Katches

  2006

• CAR for Covering Education

  Ciotta's tipsheet is a good guide for education reporters who want to incorporate CAR into their beat. She suggests ways to analyze test scores and then recommends other sorts of data that education reporters pursue for more in-depth stories. Finally, Ciotta gives some examples of education stories that implemented CAR.

  Tags: teachers; students; high school; school athletics; local government; state government; children

  By Rose Ciotta

  2006

• Uncovering the Secrets of Seroxat

  The author recounts each stage of the BBC Panorama investigation into the drug Seroxat, which is known as Paxil in the United States. It is one of the world's most prescribed anti-depressants, and it is addictive and can cause self-harm and suicide in some patients. The BBC investigation also found that the drug was sometimes tested on children.

  Tags: prescription medicine; drug companies; television journalism; broadcast news; health

  By Shelley Jofre

  2005

• Comparing Matriculation Examination

  The author explains how she investigated test scores in Finland to compare the results of different schools.

  Tags: education; test scores; examinations; education reporting; school

  By Hanna Ruokangas

  2005

• Checking out test scores with CAR

  This tipsheet is all about standardized test scores. Hacker discusses different ways to examine a set of scores, such as looking at the data geographically, examining results over time and trying different ways of reporting scores.

  Tags: standardized tests; education; elementary school; cheating; mapping; schools; teachers

  By Holly Hacker

  2005

• Do It Yourself Environmental Testing: When CAR becomes Computer - Assisted Research

  Cappiello offers five steps for doing a very thorough investigation of pollution. She covers everything from deciding that the investigation is necessary (Step 1) to making sense of the numbers (Step 5). In between are tips on designing an experiment, consulting with experts and using databases to focus research. Cappiello includes a very detailed description of each step, along with useful information and websites that are helpful for each stage of the investigation.

  Tags: environment; pollution; science; experiment; databases; analysis

  By Dina Cappiello

  2005

• SPSS 2 - Doing crosstabs to see the data in different ways, and statistical tests

  This tipsheet is a guide to very advanced statistical functions and means of data analysis. Primarily, it focuses on using SPSS to help view the data in different ways.

  Tags: crosstab statistics; chi-square; standard deviation; SPSS output

  By David Milliron

  2005

• School Data Proficiency -- California's Test for Journalists

  This tipsheet is exclusively about California's state school testing system. It includes all of the dates when data will be released in 2005, and then explains some of the specific terminology that makes this topic so confusing.

  Tags: testing; education; STAR test; standardized testing

  By Dick O'Reilly

  2005