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Scammacca, Nancy K.; Roberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon; Stuebing, Karla K. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
This meta-analysis synthesizes the literature on interventions for struggling readers in Grades 4 through 12 published between 1980 and 2011. It updates Scammacca et al.'s analysis of studies published between 1980 and 2004. The combined corpus of 82 study-wise effect sizes was meta-analyzed to determine (a) the overall effectiveness of reading…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Intervention, Reading Difficulties, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kim, Seock-Ho; Cohen, Allan S. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 1998
Presents a review of fundamental concepts and applications used to address the Behrens-Fisher problem (W. Behrens, 1929 and R. Fisher, 1935), a problem in testing the difference between two population means, through fiducial, Bayesian, and frequentist approaches. (Contains 86 references.) (SLD)
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Significance
Rabinowitz, Stanley N.; Pruzek, Robert – 1978
Despite advances in common factor analysis, a review of 89 studies published in four selected journals between 1963 and 1976 indicated that behavioral scientists preferred principal components analysis, followed by varimax or orthogonal rotation. Resultant row sums of squares of factor matrices from principal component analyses of real data sets…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Factor Analysis