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Deke, John; Wei, Thomas; Kautz, Tim – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2017
Evaluators of education interventions are increasingly designing studies to detect impacts much smaller than the 0.20 standard deviations that Cohen (1988) characterized as "small." While the need to detect smaller impacts is based on compelling arguments that such impacts are substantively meaningful, the drive to detect smaller impacts…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Research, Research Problems, Statistical Bias
Suydam, Marilyn N. – 1984
Data from 32 state assessments in mathematics (conducted in 1984 and earlier) are analyzed in this document. The high degree of variability across the states is stressed, with some of the points of variation in the test development, administration, and analysis process noted. Information is then presented on topics on which students are doing well…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Educational Assessment, Educational Research