NCSER Releases Technical Paper “Statistical Power Analysis in Education Research”

Date: April 28, 2010
Location: College Park, MD

The Institute of Educations Sciences (IES) at the U.S. Department of Education contracted with Optimal Solutions Group, LLC to develop a guide for calculating statistical power for complex multilevel designs that are used in most field studies in education.

On its website, the National Center for Special Education Research has released a paper entitled “Statistical Power Analysis in Education Research,” coauthored by Larry Hedges and Christopher Rhoads. This paper provides a guide to calculating statistical power for the complex multilevel designs that are used in most field studies in education research. To view the report, please visit: http://ies.ed.gov/ncser/pubs/20103006/.