Bruce Thompson (2007a), in his AERA-D/EdResMeth post of 4 April 2007
titled "Fidler & Cumming's new article" wrote [bracketed by lines
"TTTTT. . . ."; my insert at ". . . .[insert]. . . ."]:
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
Folks interested in improvement in statistical practices may want to
check out Fidler and Cumming's article, "Lessons Learned from
Statistical Reform Efforts in Other Disciplines" . . . . [Fidler &
Cumming (2007)]. . . . which just appeared in the latest issue (#5)
of "Psychology in the Schools"
<http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/114206113/PDFSTART>.
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
The above URL brings up an order form for Thompson (2007b), only one
of the articles in the latest issue (#5) of "Psychology in the
Schools." A listing of ALL the articles is at
<http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/32084>. Judging
from the lead article [Kehle & Bray (2007)], the theme of the issue
is 'Introduction to statistical reform in school psychology.]. . . .
. At that URL one may freely access the abstracts (if they exist),
including those for Fidler & Cumming (2007), Thompson (2007b).
For an earlier special journal issue on "Statistical Significance
Testing" see "Research in the Schools" [RITS (1998)], placed online
by Dennis Roberts. For a review of the status of Null Hypothesis
Significance Testing (NHST) see Chapter 7 "Practical Significance" of
Thompson (2006). For a mildly pro-NHST article see Wainer &
Robinson (2003). But even they conclude that "NHST is most often
useful as an adjunct to other results (e.g., effect sizes) rather
than as a stand-alone result."
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>
REFERENCES
Fidler, F. & G. Cumming. 2007. "Lessons Learned from Statistical
Reform Efforts in Other Disciplines," Psychology in the Schools
44(5): 441-449; an abstract is online at
<http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114206096/ABSTRACT>.
The full article is online at the same URL, free to subscribers, $25
to non-subscribers.
Thompson, B. 2006. "Foundations of Behavioral Statistics: An
Insight-Based Approach." Guilford Press - information at
<http://www.guilford.com/pr/thompson.htm>. See also
<http://www.coe.tamu.edu/~bthompson/datasets.htm>.
Thompson, B. 2007a. "Fidler & Cumming's new article," online at
<http://tinyurl.com/2vvh3x>. Post of 4 Apr 2007 to AERA-D & EdResMeth.
Thompson, B. 2007b. "Effect sizes, confidence intervals, and
confidence intervals for effect sizes," Psychology in the Schools
44(5): 423-432; an abstract is online at
<http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114206113/ABSTRACT>.
The full article is online at the same URL, free to subscribers, $25
to non-subscribers.
Kehle, T.J. & M.A. Bray. 2007. "On such a full sea and we still are
not afloat: Introduction to statistical reform in school psychology,"
online to subscribers at
<http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/114206112/ABSTRACT>.
RITS. 1998. "Research In The Schools" (a nationally refereed journal
sponsored by the Mid-South Educational Research Association and the
University of Alabama at Birmingham) Volume 5, Number 2, Fall,
Special Issue On Statistical Significance Testing; online at
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/d/m/dmr/sigtest/sigtest.htm>.
Wainer, H. & D.H. Robinson. 2003. "Shaping Up the Practice of Null
Hypothesis Significance Testing," Educational Researcher 32(7);
22-30; online as a 148 kB pdf at
<http://www.aera.net/publications/?id=399>.
---
To make changes to your subscription go to:
http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
