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ERIC Number: EJ1346992
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Sep
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3737
EISSN: EISSN-1935-1062
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How Big Are Effect Sizes in International Education Studies?
Evans, David K.; Yuan, Fei
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v44 n3 p532-540 Sep 2022
A growing literature measures the impact of education interventions in low- and middle-income countries on both access and learning outcomes. But how should one contextualize the size of impacts? This article provides the distribution of standardized effect sizes on learning and access from 234 studies in low- and middle-income countries. We identify a median effect size of 0.10 standard deviations on learning and 0.07 standard deviations on access among randomized controlled trials. Effect sizes are similar for quasi-experimental studies. Effects are larger and demonstrate higher variance for small-scale studies than for large-scale studies. The distribution of existing effects can help researchers and policymakers to situate new findings within current knowledge and design new studies with sufficient statistical power to identify effects.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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