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Building Local Skills: The Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix In Practice
… (Campbell & Fiske, 1959) combined with the Sawilowsky I test (Sawilowsky, 2002) may provide a way for site-based administrators to develop a deeper understanding of the data for which they are responsible while increasing these administrators' usefulness as evaluators of measurement …
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Distribution-Free Trends Test To Determine The Construct Validity Of An Anti-Social Criminal Attitudes Scale
… look at the matrix to determine validity. Sawilowsky’s I-Test offers a statistical approach that incorporates the current practice but removes the subjectivity involved in this process. </p> <p>There are only two existing studies that look at the I-Test, Sawilowsky in 2002 and Cuzzocrea in …
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Critical Values For The Two Independent Samples Winsorized T Test
… <p>AUGUST 2010</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Shlomo Sawilowsky</p> <p>Major: (Education, Evaluation and Research)</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>Through Monte Carlo Simulation, this study explores the approximate behavior of the two sample winsorized t test. Samples are drawn from the …
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Descriptive Statistical Attributes Of Special Education Datasets
… <p>December 2013</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Shlomo Sawilowsky</p> <p>Major: Educational Evaluation and Research</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p> Micceri (1989) examined the distributional characteristics of 440 large-sample achievement and psychometric measures. All the distributions were …
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The Impact Of Nested Testing On Experiment-Wise Type I Error Rate
<p>When conducting a statistical test the initial risk that must be considered is a Type I error, also known as a false positive. The Type I error rate is set by nominal alpha, assuming all underlying conditions of the statistic are met. Experiment-wise Type I error inflation occurs when multiple …
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Robustness And Power Of The Kornbrot Rank Difference, Signed Ranks, And Dependent Samples T-Test
… <p> <strong>Advisor:</strong>Dr. Shlomo S. Sawilowsky</p> <p> <strong>Major:</strong>Evaluation and Research - Statistics</p> <p> <strong>Degree:</strong>Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p> The purpose of the study was to compare the power and accuracy of the Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks test in …
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The effects of story performance on fourth and fifth grade students' comprehension and oral reading fluency of narrative and expository texts
… also employed. These tests include the Blair-Sawilowsky Salter-Fawcett adjusted rank transformation test (ART), Kruskal-Wallis H tests, and Wilcoxon rank-sum tests (Mann-Whitney U).</p> <p>The major finding from this study involves fifth graders' comprehension of narrative texts. With the …
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Examining The Psychometric Properties Of The Family Resource Scale-Revised
… <p>May 2016</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Shlomo Sawilowsky</p> <p>Major: Evaluation and Research</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p> Introduction: Over 10,000 children under the age of 15 will be diagnosed with cancer in the year 2015 (Siegel, 2015). The five year survival rate across all …