Effect size literature

Materials for KI Dep Clinical Neuroscience Seminar

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Our paper

Judd, N., & Klingberg, T. (2021). Training spatial cognition enhances mathematical learning in a randomized study of 17,000 children. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–7. PDF

Re-evaluating Cohen’s standards

In order of importance:

1. Funder, D. C., & Ozer, D. J. (2019). Evaluating Effect Size in Psychological Research: Sense and Nonsense. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 2(2), 156–168. PDF
2. Anvari, F., Kievit, R., Lakens, D., Pennington, C. R., Przybylski, A. K., Tiokhin, L., Wiernik, B. M., & Orben, A. (2021). Evaluating the practical relevance and significance of observed effect sizes in psychological research. psyarxiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/g3vtr PDF
3. Götz, F. M., Gosling, S. D., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2021). Small Effects: The Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science: A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 1745691620984483. PDF

Education literature

• Kraft, M. A. (2020). Interpreting Effect Sizes of Education Interventions. Educational Researcher , 49(4), 241–253. PDF
• Ritchie, S. J., & Tucker-Drob, E. M. (2018). How Much Does Education Improve Intelligence? A Meta-Analysis. Psychological Science, 29(8), 1358–1369. PDF
• Bloom, H. S., Hill, C. J., Black, A. R., & Lipsey, M. W. (2008). Performance Trajectories and Performance Gaps as Achievement Effect-Size Benchmarks for Educational Interventions. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 1(4), 289–328. PDF
• Lortie-Forgues, H., & Inglis, M. (2019). Rigorous Large-Scale Educational RCTs Are Often Uninformative: Should We Be Concerned? Educational Researcher , 48(3), 158–166. PDF

Other relevant literature

• Abelson, R. P. (1985). A variance explanation paradox: When a little is a lot. In Psychological Bulletin (Vol. 97, Issue 1, pp. 129–133). https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.97.1.129 PDF
• Dick, A. S., Watts, A. L., Heeringa, S. G., Lopez, D. A., Bartsch, H., Fan, C. C., Palmer, C. E., Reuter, C., Marshall, A. T., Haist, F., Hawes, S., Nichols, T., Barch, D. M., Jernigan, T. L., Garavan, H., Grant, S., Pariyadath, V., Hoffman, E., Neale, M., … Thompson, W. (2020). Meaningful Effects in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (p. 2020.09.01.276451). https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.01.276451 PDF

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