Significance Testing; Necessary but Insufficient.

Suen, Hoi K.

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Publication Date: 1992

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Significance Testing; Necessary but Insufficient.

Suen, Hoi K.

Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, v12 n1 p66-81 Spr 1992

This commentary on EC 603 695 argues that significance testing is a necessary but insufficient condition for positivistic research, that judgment-based assessment and single-subject research are not substitutes for significance testing, and that sampling fluctuation should be considered as one of numerous epistemological concerns in any positivistic research. (JDD)

Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluative Thinking, Research Design, Research Methodology, Sampling, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Inference, Statistical Significance

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Language: English

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