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V. N. Vimal Rao; Jeffrey K. Bye; Sashank Varma – Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2024
The 0.05 boundary within Null Hypothesis Statistical Testing (NHST) "has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move" (to quote Douglas Adams). Here, we move past meta-scientific arguments and ask an empirical question: What is the psychological standing of the 0.05 boundary for statistical significance? We…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Statistical Analysis, Testing, Statistical Significance
Jacob P. Wong-Campbell; Ashley Gerhardson; Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero; Naunihal Zaveri – Association for Institutional Research, 2024
While the Two or More Races category has been the de facto mechanism to count multiracial college students since 2010, little research has critically examined how this category has been used in institutional research contexts. Extending previous scholarship on monoracism in higher education, we define "quantitative monoracism" as the…
Descriptors: College Students, Multiracial Persons, Racism, Institutional Research
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Susan L. Robertson – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
In this paper, I argue a new politics of ordinal differentiation and its instruments for governing education aims to make invisible a 'low intensity civil war' against the labouring classes. It does this through the elevation and ubiquity of actuarial and quantitative measures aimed at producing a new form of differentiated belonging: that of…
Descriptors: Social Differences, Politics of Education, Citizenship, Personal Autonomy