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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
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Hinkle, Dennis E.; Oliver, J. Dale – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1983
In this paper, tables for the appropriate sample sizes are presented and discussed in the context that the determination of the effect size must precede the determination of the sample size. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Effect Size, Research Methodology, Research Needs, Research Problems