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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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The Role of Statistical Significance Testing in Educational Research.
McLean, James E.; Ernest, James M. – Research in the Schools, 1998
Although statistical significance testing as the sole basis for result interpretation is a flawed practice, significance tests can be useful as one of three criteria that must be demonstrated to establish a position empirically. Statistical significance testing provides evidence that an event did not happen by chance but gives no evidence of the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Hypothesis Testing, Research Methodology, Statistical Significance
Fight the Good Fight: A Response to Thompson, Knapp, and Levin.
Ernest, James M.; McLean, James E. – Research in the Schools, 1998
Discusses commonalities in the papers of this special issue, addresses concerns about errors of omission expressed by T. Knapp, and provides some recommendations for the use of statistical significance testing with requirements for estimates of effect sizes. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Effect Size, Estimation (Mathematics), Hypothesis Testing
The Harrington-O'Shea Career Decision-Making System (CDM) and the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT): Relationship of Interest Scale Scores to Fluid and Crystallized IQs at Ages 12 to 22 Years.
McLean, James E.; Kaufman, Alan S. – Research in the Schools, 1995
The six Holland-based Interest Scale scores yielded by the Harrington-O'Shea Career Decision-Making System (CDM) (T. Harrington and A. O'Shea, 1982) were related to sex, race, and performance on the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test for 254 adolescents and young adults. CDM scores did not relate to most of the variables studied, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Interest Inventories
Sixty Years of Research in the Schools: A Conversation with Ralph W. Tyler.
McLean, James E. – Research in the Schools, 1994
At the age of 91, Ralph W. Tyler reflects on his long and distinguished career as an educator and educational researcher in this interview. He comments on educational reforms, teacher education, the uses of educational assessment, and the purpose of education. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Research
The Relationship of the Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children to Sex, Race, and Fluid-Crystallized Intelligence on the KAIT at Ages 11 to 15.
Kaufman, Alan S.; McLean, James E. – Research in the Schools, 1994
Four typologies assessed by the Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children (C. Meisgeier and M. Murphy, 1987) (Extraversion-Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, Judging-Perceiving) were related to sex, race/ethnic group, intelligence level, and fluid/crystallized IQ discrepancy for 263 adolescents. The Thinking/Feeling index…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classification, Decision Making, Extraversion Introversion
Do Funding Inequities Produce Educational Disparity? Research Issues in the Alabama Case.
Ross, Steven M.; Smith, Lana J.; Nunnery, John; Douzenis, Cordelia; Trentham, Landa L.; McLean, James E. – Research in the Schools, 1994
As part of the legal defense in an educational-disparity court case in Alabama, school resources and conditions and teacher and principal attitudes were studied in 45 school districts. Findings from all sources show disparities favoring wealthy schools on about 84% of the variables examined. Research impact on the trial is discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
Sequential-Simultaneous Profile Analysis of Korean Children's Performance on the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC).
Moon, Soo-Back; Byun, Chang-Jin; McLean, James E.; Kaufman, Alan S. – Research in the Schools, 1994
Korean children (n=440) aged 2.5 to 12.5 years were tested with the Korean version of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) (A. Kaufman and N. Kaufman, 1983) to see if these children demonstrated a profile similar to that of Japanese children. Korean children scored higher on the Sequential Scale than Japanese children, and had a…
Descriptors: Children, Cultural Differences, Intelligence Tests, Mathematics Instruction