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Peer reviewedMcCartney, Kathleen; Rosenthal, Robert – Child Development, 2000
Shares three ideas concerning how to evaluate the practical importance of developmental findings to make them more useful to policymakers: (1) statistical significance tests need to be accompanied by effect size estimates; (2) meta-analyses are helping in using all existing data when examining issues involved in policy debates; and (3) researchers…
Descriptors: Child Development, Data Analysis, Developmental Psychology, Effect Size
