Identifying Highly Effective Interventions

• In Event: Beyond Evaluation as Usual: New Approaches for Assessing Educational Innovations

Abstract

The research community has gone to great lengths to rationalize the importance of small effect sizes as being credible evidence that the intervention "works," however, there is growing evidence that the impacts documented by small effect sizes do not replicate in subsequent research or in practice. Using two databases, interventions with effect sizes of at least .50 are identified as evidence that highly effective interventions indeed exist and should be a priority for implementation and further replication research.

Authors

• Jerome V. D'Agostino, The Ohio State University
  Presenting Author

• Stanley Pogrow, San Francisco State University
  Presenting Author