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The Other Half of the Story: Effect Size Analysis in Quantitative Research
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Statistical significance testing is the cornerstone of quantitative research, but studies that fail to report measures of effect size are potentially missing a robust part of the analysis. We provide a rationale for why effect size measures should be included in quantitative discipline-based education research. Examples from both biological and educational research demonstrate the utility of effect size for evaluating practical significance. We also provide details about some effect size indices that are paired with common statistical significance tests used in educational research and offer general suggestions for interpreting effect size measures. Finally, we discuss some inherent limitations of effect size measures and provide further recommendations about reporting confidence intervals.
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Distribution Theory for Glass's Estimator of Effect Size and Related Estimators
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“The p value represents the probability of the observed data (or more extreme data) given that the null hypothesis is true: Pr(observed data|H0), assuming that the sampling was random and done without error (Kirk, 1996; Johnson, 1999).”
BackgroundInfluentialEta-squared and partial eta-squared in fixed factor anova designs
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A common language effect size statistic
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“Additionally, McGraw and Wong (1992) developed a measure to report what they call “the common language effect size indicator,” which describes the probability that a random value sampled from one group will be greater than a random value sampled from a comparison group (McGraw and Wong, 1992).”
BackgroundGottesman, A. J., & Hoskins, S. G. (2013) · CBE—Life Sciences Education · doi:10.1187/cbe.12-11-0201 · Cited by 123 · cited 1×
“Gottesman and Hoskins (2013) applied Cohen’s d to compare pre/post means of data collected using an instrument measuring students’ critical thinking, experimental design ability, attitudes, and beliefs.”
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Stevens, L. M., & Hoskins, S. G. (2014) · CBE—Life Sciences Education · doi:10.1187/cbe.13-12-0239 · Cited by 62
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- Maher, J. M., Markey, J. C., & Ebert-May, D.
- Venue
- CBE—Life Sciences Education
- Published
- 2013-09
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 345-351
- ISSN
- 1931-7913 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2128850990
- Cited by
- 625
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 63.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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