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Shen, Zuchao; Kelcey, Benjamin – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2020
Conventional optimal design frameworks consider a narrow range of sampling cost structures that thereby constrict their capacity to identify the most powerful and efficient designs. We relax several constraints of previous optimal design frameworks by allowing for variable sampling costs in cluster-randomized trials. The proposed framework…
Descriptors: Sampling, Research Design, Randomized Controlled Trials, Statistical Analysis
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Li, Wei; Dong, Nianbo; Maynard, Rebecca A. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2020
Cost-effectiveness analysis is a widely used educational evaluation tool. The randomized controlled trials that aim to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the treatment are commonly referred to as randomized cost-effectiveness trials (RCETs). This study provides methods of power analysis for two-level multisite RCETs. Power computations take…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Research
Qin, Xu; Hong, Guanglei – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2017
When a multisite randomized trial reveals between-site variation in program impact, methods are needed for further investigating heterogeneous mediation mechanisms across the sites. We conceptualize and identify a joint distribution of site-specific direct and indirect effects under the potential outcomes framework. A method-of-moments procedure…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Probability
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Talloen, Wouter; Moerkerke, Beatrijs; Loeys, Tom; De Naeghel, Jessie; Van Keer, Hilde; Vansteelandt, Stijn – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2016
To assess the direct and indirect effect of an intervention, multilevel 2-1-1 studies with intervention randomized at the upper (class) level and mediator and outcome measured at the lower (student) level are frequently used in educational research. In such studies, the mediation process may flow through the student-level mediator (the within…
Descriptors: Intervention, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Computation, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Kelcey, Benjamin; Dong, Nianbo; Spybrook, Jessaca; Cox, Kyle – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2017
Designs that facilitate inferences concerning both the total and indirect effects of a treatment potentially offer a more holistic description of interventions because they can complement "what works" questions with the comprehensive study of the causal connections implied by substantive theories. Mapping the sensitivity of designs to…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Randomized Controlled Trials, Mediation Theory, Models
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VanHoudnos, Nathan M.; Greenhouse, Joel B. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2016
When cluster randomized experiments are analyzed as if units were independent, test statistics for treatment effects can be anticonservative. Hedges proposed a correction for such tests by scaling them to control their Type I error rate. This article generalizes the Hedges correction from a posttest-only experimental design to more common designs…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Randomized Controlled Trials, Error of Measurement, Scaling