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Download full textDaniel, Larry G. – 1996
Fred N. Kerlinger has been hailed as having contributed to the transformation of the way that behavioral scientists and educators read research reports, design and execute research, and draw conclusions about research. In 1960 he introduced the notion that educational research is fraught with mythology. Three of the research myths that he…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Design, Research Methodology, Research Problems
Thompson, Bruce – 1995
The research literature provides important guidance to counselors working to keep abreast of the latest thinking regarding best practices and recently developed counseling tools. The purpose of this digest is to highlight a few errors that seem to recur within the literature, and to provide some helpful references that further explore these…
Descriptors: Counseling, Educational Researchers, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems
Osborne, Jason W. – 2002
The goal of this Digest is to explore some of the issues involved in data transformation, with particular focus in the use of data transformation for the normalization of variables. The Digest is intended to serve as an aid to researchers who do not have extensive mathematical backgrounds or who had not had extensive exposure to this issue. It…
Descriptors: Data Conversion, Research Methodology, Statistical Analysis, Transformations (Mathematics)
Thompson, Bruce – 1994
Too few researchers understand what statistical significance testing does and does not do, and consequently their results are misinterpreted. This Digest explains the concept of statistical significance testing and discusses the meaning of probabilities, the concept of statistical significance, arguments against significance testing,…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Effect Size
Loxley, Bill – 1990
This digest examines the organization of and international studies conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). The IEA is a non-profit, private association that conducts international comparative studies on schools and aids the research community in developing international tests and statistical…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Mabry, Theo N. – 1988
Thoughtful, well-planned and systematic reviews of both instructional and noninstructional programs provide community colleges with a way of determining whether programs are meeting stated objectives and what standards of performance should be maintained. Programs that need improvement or should be eliminated can be identified, and fiscal…
Descriptors: College Programs, Community Colleges, Data Analysis, Data Collection
