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Tipton, Elizabeth – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
Practitioners and policymakers often want estimates of the effect of an intervention for their local community, e.g., region, state, county. In the ideal, these multiple population average treatment effect (ATE) estimates will be considered in the design of a single randomized trial. Methods for sample selection for generalizing the sample ATE to…
Descriptors: Sampling, Sample Size, Selection, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Tipton, Elizabeth; Pustejovsky, James E. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Randomized experiments are commonly used to evaluate the effectiveness of educational interventions. The goal of the present investigation is to develop small-sample corrections for multiple contrast hypothesis tests (i.e., F-tests) such as the omnibus test of meta-regression fit or a test for equality of three or more levels of a categorical…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Sample Size, Effect Size, Hypothesis Testing
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Tipton, Elizabeth; Hallberg, Kelly; Hedges, Larry V.; Chan, Wendy – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
Policy-makers are frequently interested in understanding how effective a particular intervention may be for a specific (and often broad) population. In many fields, particularly education and social welfare, the ideal form of these evaluations is a large-scale randomized experiment. Recent research has highlighted that sites in these large-scale…
Descriptors: Generalization, Program Effectiveness, Sample Size, Computation