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Publication Date: 2020
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Design Parameter Values for Impact Evaluations of Science and Mathematics Interventions Involving Teacher Outcomes
Westine, Carl D.; Unlu, Fatih; Taylor, Joseph; Spybrook, Jessaca; Zhang, Qi; Anderson, Brent
Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, v13 n4 p816-839 2020
Experimental research in education and training programs typically involves administering treatment to whole groups of individuals. As such, researchers rely on the estimation of design parameter values to conduct power analyses to efficiently plan their studies to detect desired effects. In this study, we present design parameter estimates from a compilation of 11 studies involving teacher-level outcomes. These results expand upon what little is known about the clustering of variance among teacher-level outcomes. The findings inform the design of intervention studies which nest teachers within schools and aim to improve teacher mathematics and science content knowledge or instructional practices. The results show large differences in unconditional intraclass correlation coefficients across studies as well as within outcomes. They also quantify the relative importance of having a pretest measure to promote efficiency. This study highlights a need for improved reporting of this information in the literature to facilitate better experimental designs of interventions involving teacher-level outcomes.
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Science Education, Mathematics Education, Intervention, Educational Research, Research Design, Correlation, Pretests Posttests, Statistical Analysis, Science Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Computation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 1544236
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