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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Rusticus, Shayna A.; Lovato, Chris Y. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2014
The question of equivalence between two or more groups is frequently of interest to many applied researchers. Equivalence testing is a statistical method designed to provide evidence that groups are comparable by demonstrating that the mean differences found between groups are small enough that they are considered practically unimportant. Few…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Equivalency Tests, Simulation, Error of Measurement
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Rusticus, Shayna A.; Lovato, Chris Y. – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2011
Assessing the comparability of different groups is an issue facing many researchers and evaluators in a variety of settings. Commonly, null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) is incorrectly used to demonstrate comparability when a non-significant result is found. This is problematic because a failure to find a difference between groups is not…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Evaluators, Intervals, Testing