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Porter, Kristin E. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2018
Researchers are often interested in testing the effectiveness of an intervention on multiple outcomes, for multiple subgroups, at multiple points in time, or across multiple treatment groups. The resulting multiplicity of statistical hypothesis tests can lead to spurious findings of effects. Multiple testing procedures (MTPs) are statistical…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Hypothesis Testing
Porter, Kristin E. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Researchers are often interested in testing the effectiveness of an intervention on multiple outcomes, for multiple subgroups, at multiple points in time, or across multiple treatment groups. The resulting multiplicity of statistical hypothesis tests can lead to spurious findings of effects. Multiple testing procedures (MTPs) are statistical…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Hypothesis Testing
Porter, Kristin E. – MDRC, 2016
In education research and in many other fields, researchers are often interested in testing the effectiveness of an intervention on multiple outcomes, for multiple subgroups, at multiple points in time, or across multiple treatment groups. The resulting multiplicity of statistical hypothesis tests can lead to spurious findings of effects. Multiple…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Hypothesis Testing
Chappell, Shanan L.; O'Connor, Patrick; Withington, Cairen; Stegelin, Dolores A. – National Dropout Prevention Center/Network, 2015
Almost from the start of the public schools system in America, students have been leaving school without high school diplomas. However, the dropout issue did not rise to the level of significance it has today until the early 1980s, when social pressures, along with business leaders, leveraged their influence on educators to address the dropout…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dropout Prevention, At Risk Students, Business