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Understanding the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina for ACF Service Populations: A Feasibility Assessment of Study Approaches
April 15, 2008This report is a feasibility assessment—an analysis of alternative datasets and analytic approaches that…
Studying the Consequences of Hurricane Katrina for ACF Service Populations: Annotated Bibliography
September 15, 2007The Urban Institute has undertaken a 12-month project to assess the feasibility of studying the consequences of…
Conclusion Summary
March 5, 2007The roundtable concluded with a discussion that focused on three themes: research design and methodology;…
Considering effect sizes within the policy context Helping Educators, Parents and Students Find Meaning in Research Results, Harris Cooper, Duke University
March 5, 2007There are difficulties in communicating results of research to audiences lacking statistical expertise…
Contextualizing effect sizes by examining population, study, and outcome characteristics: Extended investigation using multilevel models and mixtures, Hendricks Brown, University of South Florida
March 5, 2007This presentation examines the variation in impact with effect sizes by describing traditional meta-analyses and…
How measurement of outcomes affects the interpretation and understanding of effect sizes, Margaret Burchinal, University of North Carolina
March 5, 2007Effect sizes describe the magnitude of findings from statistical analyses...
How should we calculate effect sizes? What are common mistakes in the calculation of effect sizes? How does research design influence the calculation of effect sizes? Howard Bloom, MDRC
March 5, 2007There are two considerations when computing or interpreting Effect Sizes: (a) different definitions of effect…
Issues in calculating average effect sizes in meta-analyses, Rebecca Maynard, Nianbo Dong, and Irma Perez-Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
March 5, 2007This session focused on the rationale for calculating average effect sizes, described which measures should be…
Panel 1 Summary
March 5, 2007The discussion session focused on methods for standardizing the language used when reporting effect sizes and…
Panel 2 Summary
March 5, 2007The implications of measurement error differ depending on whether one is using natural or standardized units…