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Migliavaca, Celina Borges; Stein, Cinara; Colpani, Verônica; Barker, Timothy Hugh; Ziegelmann, Patricia Klarmann; Munn, Zachary; Falavigna, Maicon – Research Synthesis Methods, 2022
Over the last decade, there has been a 10-fold increase in the number of published systematic reviews of prevalence. In meta-analyses of prevalence, the summary estimate represents an average prevalence from included studies. This estimate is truly informative only if there is no substantial heterogeneity among the different contexts being pooled.…
Descriptors: Incidence, Meta Analysis, Statistics, Statistical Distributions
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Gibbs, Benjamin G.; Shafer, Kevin; Miles, Aaron – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2017
While the use of inferential statistics is a nearly universal practice in the social sciences, there are instances where its application is unnecessary and potentially misleading. This is true for a portion of research using administrative data in educational research in the United States. Surveying all research articles using administrative data…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Statistics, Data, Information Utilization
Shaughnessy, Michael – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2008
Until recently, much of the research on students' understanding of statistical ideas has focused on their conceptions of center or on what constitutes a good sample. In the past decade research on students' statistical thinking has broadened and increasing interest has been paid to how students think about variability in data or variability in…
Descriptors: Statistics, Statistical Data, Data Interpretation, Sampling
Creighton, Theodore B. – 2000
Data collection and analysis are frequently neglected by school leaders over the course of the decision-making process. All schools gather large amounts of information about students and teachers, but most data are used to satisfy administrative requirements rather than evaluate school improvement in a systematic fashion. Apprehension regarding…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Data, Data Analysis, Data Collection