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Rhoads, Christopher – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Experimental evaluations that involve the educational system usually involve a hierarchical structure (students are nested within classrooms that are nested within schools, etc.). Concerns about contamination, where research subjects receive certain features of an intervention intended for subjects in a different experimental group, have often led…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Error of Measurement, Research Design, Statistical Analysis
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Hedges, Larry V. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2007
A common mistake in analysis of cluster randomized trials is to ignore the effect of clustering and analyze the data as if each treatment group were a simple random sample. This typically leads to an overstatement of the precision of results and anticonservative conclusions about precision and statistical significance of treatment effects. This…
Descriptors: Statistical Significance, Computation, Cluster Grouping, Statistics
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Schweizer, Karl – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1992
Two versions of a decision rule for determining the most appropriate number of clusters on the basis of a correlation matrix are presented, applied, and compared with three other decision rules. The new rule is efficient for determining the number of clusters on the surface level for multilevel data. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Comparative Analysis, Correlation