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Significance, Effect Sizes, Stepwise Methods, and Other Issues: Strong Arguments Move the Field
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The author asserts that editors should publicly declare their expectations and expose the rationales for editorial policies to public scrutiny. He argues that editorial policies ought to require effect size reporting, as those at 17 journals now do. He also argues (a) that score reliabilities should be reported; (b) that stepwise methods should not be used; (c) that structure coefficients should be interpreted; and (d) that if used wisely, confidence intervals differ from hypothesis tests in important ways. The use of noncentral t and F distributions to create confidence intervals about effect sizes also is appealing.
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- Authors
- Thompson, B.
- Venue
- The Journal of Experimental Education
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2001-01
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 80-93
- ISSN
- 0022-0973 (ISSN-L)
- 1940-0683
- OpenAlex
- W1990149973
- Cited by
- 210
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 14.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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