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Fask, Alan; Englander, Fred; Wang, Zhaobo – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2015
There has been a remarkable growth in distance learning courses in higher education. Despite indications that distance learning courses are more vulnerable to cheating behavior than traditional courses, there has been little research studying whether online exams facilitate a relatively greater level of cheating. This article examines this issue…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Introductory Courses, Statistics, Cheating
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Price, Paul C.; Kimura, Nicole M.; Smith, Andrew R.; Marshall, Lindsay D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Previous research has shown that people exhibit a sample size bias when judging the average of a set of stimuli on a single dimension. The more stimuli there are in the set, the greater people judge the average to be. This effect has been demonstrated reliably for judgments of the average likelihood that groups of people will experience negative,…
Descriptors: Sample Size, Statistical Bias, Visual Perception, Pictorial Stimuli