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Vacha-Haase, Tammi; Thompson, Bruce – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1998
Responds to Biskin's comments (this issue) on the significance test controversy. Highlights areas of agreement (importance of replication evidence, importance of effect sizes) and disagreement (influence of sample size, evaluation of populations vs. samples, significance of Carver's article). Includes further recommendations for reporting research…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Hypothesis Testing, Psychological Studies, Sampling

Biskin, Bruce H. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1998
Significance tests are often used inappropriately in counseling research. In addition to comments on the significance test controversy (Vacha-Haase and Nilsson, this issue), a wider historical context and personal experiences are provided. The controversy is discussed, and seven recommendations for using significance tests are included. (EMK)
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Hypothesis Testing, Psychological Studies, Psychometrics
Holmberg, Borje – 1990
A personal understanding of the concepts of scholarship, knowledge, and research is presented. The basic task of scholarship is to study reality with a view to finding out what it is like, the relations of different parts to each other, and the applications to which the findings can lead. The scholarly search must be a rational procedure.…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Epistemology, Hermeneutics, Hypothesis Testing

Paradis, Michel – Language Learning, 1995
Focuses on the interpretation of research data of Berthier, Starkstein, Lylyk, and Leiguarda (1990) reporting a case of faster recovery, after selective sodium amytal injection, of the patient's second language than his native language. Paradis (1990) argued that these results do not support Ojemann and Whitaker's (1978) hypothesis. (five…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Data Interpretation, Drug Therapy, English (Second Language)

Knapp, Thomas R. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1999
Presents an opinion on the appropriate use of significance tests, especially in the context of regression analysis, the most commonly encountered statistical technique in education and related disciplines. Briefly discusses the appropriate use of power analysis. Contains 47 references. (Author/SV)
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Educational Research, Effect Size, Hypothesis Testing
Thompson, Bruce – 1987
This paper evaluates the logic underlying various criticisms of statistical significance testing and makes specific recommendations for scientific and editorial practice that might better increase the knowledge base. Reliance on the traditional hypothesis testing model has led to a major bias against nonsignificant results and to misinterpretation…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Data Interpretation, Editors, Effect Size