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Statistical Power for Nonequivalent Pretest-Posttest Designs: The Impact of Change-Score Versus ANCOVA Models

New England Research Institutes

Henry A. Feldman

New England Research Institutes

Nonequivalent controlled pretest-posttest designs are central to evaluation science, yet no practical and unified approach for estimating power in the two most widely used analytic approaches to these designs exists. This article fills the gap by presenting and comparing useful, unified, power formulas for ANCOVA and change-score analyses, indicating the implications of each on sample-size requirements. The authors close with practical recommendations for evaluators. Mathematical details and a simple spreadsheet approach are included in appendices.

Key Words: measurement error • quasi-experiment • experiment

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