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Chesnut, Steven R.; Wei, Tianlan; Barnard-Brak, Lucy; Richman, David M. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
The current meta-analysis examines the previous research on the utility of the Social Communication Questionnaire as a screening instrument for autism spectrum disorder. Previously published reports have highlighted the inconsistencies between Social Communication Questionnaire-screening results and formal autism spectrum disorder diagnoses. The…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Meta Analysis, Screening Tests, Autism
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Scrutton, Roger; Beames, Simon – Journal of Experiential Education, 2015
Outdoor adventure education (OAE) has a long history of being credited with the personal and social development (PSD) of its participants. PSD is notoriously difficult to measure quantitatively, yet stakeholders demand statistical evidence that given approaches to eliciting PSD are effective in their methods. Rightly or wrongly, many stakeholders…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Educational Research, Statistical Analysis, Individual Development
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Brannick, Michael T.; Zhang, Nanhua – Research Synthesis Methods, 2013
The current paper describes and illustrates a Bayesian approach to the meta-analysis of coefficient alpha. Alpha is the most commonly used estimate of the reliability or consistency (freedom from measurement error) for educational and psychological measures. The conventional approach to meta-analysis uses inverse variance weights to combine…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Meta Analysis, Sampling, Reliability
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Goktas, Yuksel; Kucuk, Sevda; Aydemir, Melike; Telli, Esra; Arpacik, Omer; Yildirim, Gurkan; Reisoglu, Ilknur – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The purpose of this study is to examine Turkish educational technology studies in the academic literature within the scope of SSCI, and to reveal methodological trends within these studies. For this purpose, 460 Turkey-addressed articles, published between the years of 2000-2009 in 32 international journals, within the scope of 2010 SSCI were…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Educational Trends, Content Analysis, Educational Research