%0 Journal Article
%T Analysis of Nominally Equivalent Outcome Studies: A Comment on Rickles, Heppen, Allensworth, Sorensen, and Walters (2018)
%A Mark C. White
%J Educational Researcher
%@ 1935-102X
%D 2019
%R 10.3102/0013189X19837220
%X Rickles, Heppen, Allensworth, Sorensen, and Walters (2018) compare two credit recovery programs with a null hypothesis of equal effects. Upon failing to reject the null, they implicitly accept the null. However, not rejecting the null is not equivalent to accepting the null, a confusion common to a range of research, which I highlight
%K evaluation
%K program evaluation
%K research methodology
%K statistics
%K validity/reliability
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0013189X19837220