Statistical Methods Used in Gifted Education Journals, 2006-2010 Academic Article

abstract

• This article describes the statistical methods used in quantitative and mixed methods articles between 2006 and 2010 in five gifted education research journals. Results indicate that the most commonly used statistical methods are means (85.9% of articles), standard deviations (77.8%), Pearsons r (47.8%), 2 (32.2%), ANOVA (30.7%), t tests (30.0%), and MANOVA (23.0%). Approximately half (53.3%) of the articles included reliability reports for the data at hand; Cronbachs alpha was the most commonly reported measure of reliability (41.5%). Some discussions of best statistical practice and implications for the field of gifted education are included.

authors

• Macik, Maria
• Ritter, Nicola

published proceedings

• GIFTED CHILD QUARTERLY

altmetric score

• 4.95

author list (cited authors)

• Warne, R. T., Lazo, M., Ramos, T., & Ritter, N.

citation count

• 36

complete list of authors

• Warne, Russell T||Lazo, Maria||Ramos, Tammy||Ritter, Nicola

publication date

• July 2012

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Gifted Child Quarterly  Journal

keywords

• Literature Review
• Methodology
• Quantitative Methods
• Reliability
• Statistical Analyses

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0016986212444122

start page

• 134

end page

• 149

volume

• 56

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0016986212444122

user-defined tag

• 4 Quality Education