1. by Stanley Pogrow, Professor of Leadership and Equity San Francisco State University stanpogrow@att.net CPED 15 Rethinking the Teaching and Definition of the Practical Significance of Quantitative Research for Leadership Decision-Making 2. Abstracted from the forthcoming book This book will be available online this July from http://www.ncpeapublications.org, then look under NCPEA Press (BOOKS) 3. The focus of this quant methods book is on how to assess and apply evidence for leadership decision- making The statistical criteria taught in quantitative methods courses to determine the importance of research findings for informing leadership decision-making are misleading 4. The first mistake is teaching that a finding of statistical significance (p