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Barrett, Paula M.; Cooper, Marita; Stallard, Paul; Zeggio, Larissa; Gallegos- Guajardo, Julia – Education and Treatment of Children, 2017
This response aims to critically evaluate the methodology and aims of the meta-analytic review written by Maggin and Johnson (2014). The present authors systematically provide responses for each of the original criticisms and highlight concerns regarding Maggin and Johnson's methodology, while objectively describing the current state of evidence…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
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Adler, Moshe – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2013
The authors of the study "The Long-Term Impact of Teachers" claim that their study shows that increases in teacher value-added lead to significant and lasting increases in test scores and significant increases in income that will last throughout adulthood. Instead, I show that these claims are false because they are contradicted by the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Income, Scores
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Bollen, Kenneth A. – Psychological Methods, 2007
R. D. Howell, E. Breivik, and J. B. Wilcox (2007) have argued that causal (formative) indicators are inherently subject to interpretational confounding. That is, they have argued that using causal (formative) indicators leads the empirical meaning of a latent variable to be other than that assigned to it by a researcher. Their critique of causal…
Descriptors: Researchers, Structural Equation Models, Formative Evaluation, Transformative Learning
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Schafer, William D. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1992
Discusses problems researchers face when they want to describe relationship between several predictors and criterion variable. Considers ways of addressing problem of contribution of each predictor depending on which other predictors are in regression equation. Focuses on parallel information for each variable, examining initial and final…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Regression (Statistics), Research Problems
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Hallden, Ola; Haglund, Liza; Stromdahl, Helge – Educational Psychologist, 2007
Research within a constructivist approach often relies on interview data, which are used to reveal beliefs held by the interviewee or to expose conceptions or conceptual structures that are supposed to reside within the interviewee. From a sociocultural perspective, severe criticism has been leveled against the neglect of the problems of inferring…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Inferences, Concept Formation, Interviews
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Walker, Elaine; Emory, Eugene – Child Development, 1985
Written in response to an article (Horn, 1983) that appeared in special Developmental Behavioral Genetics section of CHILD DEVELOPMENT (Volume 54), this commentary (1) notes some issues concerning Horn's analysis and interpretation of data and (2) highlights the potential for interpretational bias in behavior genetics research. (Author/BE)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Bias, Data Interpretation, Intelligence Quotient
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Horn, Joseph M. – Child Development, 1985
In this rebuttal to Walker and Emory's commentary (also in this issue), Horn argues that the issue of the influence of environment on the average IQ of adopted children was well discussed in his article (Volume 54 of CHILD DEVELOPMENT). (BE)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Bias, Data Interpretation, Intelligence Quotient
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Bracey, Gerald W. – Educational Leadership, 2006
Education statistics are rarely neutral; those who collect and analyze them have different purposes. In this article, Bracey discusses several principles of data interpretation to help educators avoid falling into statistical traps. For example, because such reports as A Nation At Risk contain many "selected, spun, distorted, and even manufactured…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Statistical Data, Data Interpretation, Statistical Analysis
Wilkinson, Rebecca L. – 1992
Problems inherent in relying solely on statistical significance testing as a means of data interpretation are reviewed. The biggest problem with statistical significance testing is that researchers have used the results of this testing to ascribe importance or meaning to their studies where such meaning often does not exist. Often researchers…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Effect Size, Power (Statistics), Reliability
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Matheny, Adam P., Jr. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1997
Notes two faulty aspects of the Reznick et al., twin study (PS 526 688): the expressive language measure at 14 months, which has practically no spread of item difficulty, as well as measures included to assess specific cognitive characteristics; and the notion of infant transition as it affects interpretation of the results. (HTH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Data Interpretation, Developmental Stages, Infants
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Bateson, David John – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
The entire thesis of "The Bell Curve" disintegrates due to biased use of data, misrepresentations, and logical inconsistencies. Five basic flaws are: inferring causality from correlation, use of dubious racial categories, contradictory arguments concerning the immutability of cognitive ability and the relative contributions of heredity…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Data Interpretation, Inferences, Intelligence Differences
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Krishnan, Parmeswara – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Comments on some methodological limitations of the research base of "The Bell Curve": blind use of the normal distribution (bell curve); avoidance of nonnormal statistical distributions, which are more appropriate for some social and economic characteristics; copious use of percentiles and quintiles, inappropriate with nonnormal…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Intelligence Quotient, Multivariate Analysis, Research Methodology
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Stevenson, Harold W. – Educational Leadership, 1993
Excoriates Gerald Bracey's "broadsides" against the author's own article in same "Educational Leadership" issue for misinterpreting his conclusions and methodology. Stevenson's learning gap results did not oversimplify ability-effort relationship in U.S. and Asian students; results were similar for U.S. cities with both large…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Education, Data Interpretation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Reichardt, Charles S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1985
The results of Seaver's (1973) quasi-experimental study of the effects of teacher expectancies on student achievement based on older sibling performance are reinterpreted as a regression artifact. That this rival explanation has not been recognized in the literature is probably due to the effects of researcher expectancies. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Interpretation, Elementary Education, Expectation
Buchanan, David R. – Health Education Quarterly, 1992
In a study of the relationship between moral reasoning and teenage drug use, problems arose in an attempt to reduce qualitative data to a quantitative format: (1) making analytic sense of singular and universal responses; (2) the mistaken logical inference that each pattern of judgment should have behavioral indicators; and (3) construction and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Data Interpretation, Illegal Drug Use, Inferences
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