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Comment author: atucker 09 April 2013 01:29:25AM *  1 point [-]

Has anyone published data on the effectiveness of Bayesian prediction models as an educational intervention? It seems like that would be very helpful in terms of being able to convince school districts to give them a shot.

Comment author: ThinkOfTheChildren 25 April 2013 08:08:12AM 0 points [-]

http://www.sas.com/govedu/edu/k12/evaas/papers.html

Quite a few things there. SAS's EVAAS is generally considered the gold standard of bayesian prediction models as educational interventions; unfortunately as SAS is based in North Carolina it has yet to spread outside that particular state. Some states have similar systems being produced by similar companies.

Particularly, if I were you I would read: http://www.sas.com/success/wf_rolesville.html