Citation

Supplee LH. Child Dev. Perspect. 2008; 2(3): 164-166.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1750-8606.2008.00059.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

ABSTRACT—Effect sizes are increasingly used to describe the magnitude of findings about program effectiveness across a range of policy contexts. However, often, both researchers and policy makers could benefit from more information about the factors that affect the calculation and interpretation of these effect sizes. To address these issues, the Administration for Children and Families and federal partners convened a roundtable in 2007, entitled Application of Effect Sizes in Research on Children and Families. This special section includes articles from this roundtable that begin a focused discussion about the purposes, calculation, and interpretation of effect sizes.