Dateline USFSP: Thursday, December 4, 2003
  Volume 1, Issue 13


Name: Abbie Garcia
Email: agarcia@bayflash.stpt.usf.edu
Subject: Lament From a Behavioral Scientist: “What Could We Possibly Have Done to Deserve the Curse of Statistical Significance Tests”?
Date: Friday, December 5th
Lament From a Behavioral Scientist: “What Could We Possibly Have Done to Deserve the Curse of Statistical Significance Tests”?

J. Thomas Kellow, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Measurement and Research
College of Education

The 5th Edition of the APA Style Manual recognizes the limitations of reporting only tests of significance to interpret research results. Find out why, and learn some ways to supplement significance tests with confidence intervals and various measures of effect size. The presentation includes applications of these procedures with real-world data from education and psychology.

Davis 105
12:00 – 1:00
Friday, December 5th