Purpose The purpose was to examine and determine effect size distributions reported in
published audiology and speech-language pathology research in order to provide …

A census of effect-size practices in the past 5 volumes of American Speech-Language-
Hearing Association journals was accomplished. Inclusion of effect size in quantitative …

Clinical practices in speech-language pathology and audiology should be both theoretically
motivated and grounded in empirical evidence. To ensure that clinical practices keep pace …

The effect size is a standardized, scale-free measure of the relative size of the effect of an
intervention, and it has important and practical implications for clinicians in the speech and …

With a new chapter on evaluating research articles, the fourth edition of Clinical Research
Methods in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology continues to be an essential …

We present a tutorial for evaluating statistical significance in research reports when t, F, or
X2 is the primary statistic. The article is intended to help speech-language pathologists …

This tutorial summarizes some of the widely known limitations of tests of statistical
significance and then focuses on extracting measures of variation accounted for as a …

Purpose Clinicians depend on the accuracy of research in the speech, language, and
hearing sciences to improve assessment and treatment of patients with communication …

In a previous Editorial, 1 we focused on the value of reporting results based on the effect
size or magnitude of the difference or the strength of the association between groups …

The lack of an adequate standardized method for reporting level of hearing function in
clinical trials has hampered the ability of investigators to draw comparisons across studies …