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Larson-Hall, Jenifer; Plonsky, Luke – Language Learning, 2015
This paper presents a set of guidelines for reporting on five types of quantitative data issues: (1) Descriptive statistics, (2) Effect sizes and confidence intervals, (3) Instrument reliability, (4) Visual displays of data, and (5) Raw data. Our recommendations are derived mainly from various professional sources related to L2 research but…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Statistical Analysis, Language Research, Second Language Learning
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Fraile, Rubén; Bosch-Morell, Francisco – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
Lecturer promotion and tenure decisions are critical both for university management and for the affected lecturers. Therefore, they should be made cautiously and based on reliable information. Student evaluations of teaching quality are among the most used and analysed sources of such information. However, to date little attention has been paid in…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teacher Promotion, Tenure, College Faculty
Lang, W. Steve; Wilkerson, Judy R. – Online Submission, 2008
The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE, 2002) requires teacher education units to develop assessment systems and evaluate both the success of candidates and unit operations. Because of a stated, but misguided, fear of statistics, NCATE fails to use accepted terminology to assure the quality of institutional evaluative…
Descriptors: State Standards, Validity, Resource Materials, Reliability