NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Deke, John; Wei, Thomas; Kautz, Tim – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2017
Evaluators of education interventions are increasingly designing studies to detect impacts much smaller than the 0.20 standard deviations that Cohen (1988) characterized as "small." While the need to detect smaller impacts is based on compelling arguments that such impacts are substantively meaningful, the drive to detect smaller impacts…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Research, Research Problems, Statistical Bias
Fahoome, Gail; Sawilowsky, Shlomo S. – 2000
Nonparametric procedures are often more powerful than classical tests for real world data, which are rarely normally distributed. However, there are difficulties in using these tests. Computational formulas are scattered throughout the literature, and there is a lack of availability of tables of critical values. This paper brings together the…
Descriptors: Monte Carlo Methods, Nonparametric Statistics, Sample Size, Statistical Distributions