Benchmarking a misnomer: A note on “Interpreting effect sizes in education interventions”

Simpson, A

doi:10.3102/0013189x20985448

Benchmarking a misnomer: A note on “Interpreting effect sizes in education interventions”

Simpson, A

Authors

Professor Adrian Simpson adrian.simpson@durham.ac.uk
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Abstract

A recent article calculates new benchmarks from the distribution of effect sizes in a dataset, without accounting for signed values or sampling appropriately. In addition, the focus-narrowing approach it takes does little to address the issues highlighted about the value of effect size for policy.

Citation

Simpson, A. (2023). Benchmarking a misnomer: A note on “Interpreting effect sizes in education interventions”. Educational Researcher, 52(3), 180-182. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189x20985448

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Nov 30, 2020
Online Publication Date	Jan 6, 2021
Publication Date	2023-04
Deposit Date	Dec 1, 2020
Publicly Available Date	May 17, 2023
Journal	Educational Researcher
Print ISSN	0013-189X
Electronic ISSN	1935-102X
Publisher	SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	52
Issue	3
Pages	180-182
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189x20985448

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