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Richard S. Balkin; Quentin Hunter; Bradley T. Erford – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2024
We describe best practices in reporting reliability estimates in counseling research with consideration to precision, generalization, and diverse populations. We provide a historical context to reporting reliability estimates, the limitations of past practices, and new methods to address reliability generalization. We highlight best practices…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Reliability, Counseling, Research
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Jamelia Harris – Field Methods, 2024
Not knowing the population size is a common problem in data-limited contexts. Drawing on work in Sierra Leone, this short take outlines a four-step solution to this problem: (1) estimate the population size using expert interviews; (2) verify estimates using interviews with participants sampled; (3) triangulate using secondary data; and (4)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sample Size, Surveys, Computation
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Elliott Ostler; Tami Williams; John Schultz – School Leadership Review, 2025
In today's data-driven and data-informed educational landscape, leaders face increasing pressure to make decisions and present results based on what appear to be comprehensive statistical analyses. However, the ethical implications of these responsibilities can be complex, particularly when statistical results carry the potential to be…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Data Use, Ethics
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Beth Chance; Andrew Kerr; Jett Palmer – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2024
While many instructors are aware of the "Literary Digest" 1936 poll as an example of biased sampling methods, this article details potential further explorations for the "Digest's" 1924-1936 quadrennial U.S. presidential election polls. Potential activities range from lessons in data acquisition, cleaning, and validation, to…
Descriptors: Publications, Public Opinion, Surveys, Bias
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Marc Brysbaert – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
Experimental psychology is witnessing an increase in research on individual differences, which requires the development of new tasks that can reliably assess variations among participants. To do this, cognitive researchers need statistical methods that many researchers have not learned during their training. The lack of expertise can pose…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Individual Differences, Statistical Analysis, Task Analysis
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Matthew J. Mayhew; Christa E. Winkler – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
Higher education professionals often are tasked with providing evidence to stakeholders that programs, services, and practices implemented on their campuses contribute to student success. Furthermore, in the absence of a solid base of evidence related to effective practices, higher education researchers and practitioners are left questioning what…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Program Evaluation
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Ting Zhang; Paul Bailey; Yuqi Liao; Emmanuel Sikali – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
The EdSurvey package helps users download, explore variables in, extract data from, and run analyses on large-scale assessment data. The analysis functions in EdSurvey account for the use of plausible values for test scores, survey sampling weights, and their associated variance estimator. We describe the capabilities of the package in the context…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Information Retrieval, Data Collection, Test Validity