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Atkinson, Leslie – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1990
The article provides a set of tables with the differences necessary for statistical significance between the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales and Bayley Scales of Infant Development, McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities, Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, and Wechsler scales. The tables are intended to supplement clinical decisions in…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Evaluation Methods, Intelligence Tests, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedSuen, Hoi K. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1992
This commentary on EC 603 695 argues that significance testing is a necessary but insufficient condition for positivistic research, that judgment-based assessment and single-subject research are not substitutes for significance testing, and that sampling fluctuation should be considered as one of numerous epistemological concerns in any…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluative Thinking, Research Design, Research Methodology
Peer reviewedDa Prato, Robert A. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1992
This paper argues that judgment-based assessment of data from multiply replicated single-subject or small-N studies should replace normative-based (p=less than 0.05) assessment of large-N research in the clinical sciences, and asserts that inferential statistics should be abandoned as a method of evaluating clinical research data. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluative Thinking, Norms, Research Design
Allen, David F.; Fry, Robert E. – 1986
This study determined the effects of two data collection techniques on response rate, response bias, response validity and respondent evaluation. Administration of a computer survey was compared to a machine readable paper survey. Cover letters were sent to 249 college sophomores who were randomly selected and proportionally stratified by intended…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Students, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection


