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Five Methodology Errors in Educational Research: The Pantheon of Statistical Significance and Other Faux Pas.
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Thompson, Bruce – 1998
After presenting a general linear model as a framework for discussion, this paper reviews five methodology errors that occur in educational research: (1) the use of stepwise methods; (2) the failure to consider in result interpretation the context specificity of analytic weights (e.g., regression beta weights, factor pattern coefficients,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Effect Size, Research Methodology, Scores
Common Methodology Mistakes in Educational Research, Revisited, along with a Primer on Both Effect Sizes and the Bootstrap.
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Thompson, Bruce – 1999
As an extension of B. Thompson's 1998 invited address to the American Educational Research Association, this paper cites two additional common faux pas in research methodology and explores some research issues for the future. These two errors in methodology are the use of univariate analyses in the presence of multiple outcome variables (with the…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Educational Research, Effect Size, Research Methodology