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Boller, Kimberly; Kisker, Ellen Eliason – Regional Educational Laboratory, 2014
This guide is designed to help researchers make sure that their research reports include enough information about study measures so that readers can assess the quality of the study's methods and results. The guide also provides examples of write-ups about measures and suggests resources for learning more about these topics. The guide assumes…
Descriptors: Research Reports, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Check Lists
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Bavier, Richard – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
A recent series of papers has renewed interest in the question of whether consumption data are superior to income data for poverty measurement. Although the Census Bureau has provided researchers with an experimental series of variables that can produce a comprehensive income measure, this resource has not been fully exploited in previous…
Descriptors: Poverty, Income, Money Management, Consumer Economics
Helwig, Carl – 1976
The five point scale is the most frequently applied scaling used in the current practices for evaluating instructor classroom performance through graduate student observations. Hence, the investigation addressed itself toward determining, through a series of 55 computerized exact randomization tests, at what degree of mean differences would…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Rating Scales, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Data
RALEY, WILLIAM L. – 1966
A DISCUSSION WAS PRESENTED ON THE PROCEDURES OF EQUATING DIVERSE ABILITY SCORES OBTAINED BY DIFFERENT SCALED MEASURES. THE AUTHOR INDICATED THE NECESSITY OF EQUATING SUCH SCORES WHEN ABILITY IS TO BE TREATED AS A SINGLE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE IN SIGNIFICANCE TESTS AND IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF DICHOTOMIZED GROUPS. A NEW RATIONALE FOR EQUATING…
Descriptors: Ability, Ability Grouping, Comparative Analysis, Equated Scores
Wyman, W.C. – 1974
This paper is an extended series of appendices to the report "Exploring the T.R.Q.: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Teachers' Rating Questionnaire," Report Number 123. It should be most useful to those familiar with multiple regression analysis and factor analysis and wishing a more complex record of the statistical procedures…
Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary Education, Evaluation, Factor Analysis
Pietrofesa, John J.; Wurtz, Robert E. – 1970
It has been hypothesized that personality needs have a significant impact upon eventual occupational placement. The Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS) was designed to provide researchers in Career development with a quick and convenient measure of a number of relatively independent personality variables, or needs. It gauges 15 such needs…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Group Norms