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ERIC Number: EJ449976
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0271-1214
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
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Quantitative Research; Single Subject Research Design
Note: Theme Issue: Controversies in Early Intervention: Part 2.