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Dorans, Neil J. – ETS Research Report Series, 2018
A distinction is made between scores as measures of a construct and predictions of a criterion or outcome variable. The interpretation attached to predictions of criteria, such as job performance or college grade point average (GPA), differs from that attached to scores that are measures of a construct, such as reading proficiency or knowledge…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Scores, Data Interpretation, Statistical Distributions
Lem, Stephanie; Onghena, Patrick; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – Educational Psychology, 2013
Recent studies have shown that the interpretation of graphs is not always easy for students. In order to reason properly about distributions of data, however, one needs to be able to interpret graphical representations of these distributions correctly. In this study, we used Tversky's principles for the design of graphs to explain how 125…
Descriptors: Graphs, Data Interpretation, College Freshmen, Design
Hobden, Sally – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2014
Information on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern Africa is often interpreted through a veil of secrecy and shame and, I argue, with flawed understanding of basic statistics. This research determined the levels of statistical literacy evident in 316 future Mathematical Literacy teachers' explanations of the median in the context of HIV/AIDS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Scientific Literacy, Statistics
Koedel, Cory – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2011
Students who take classes in education departments at universities receive significantly higher grades than students who take classes in other academic departments. The higher grades awarded by education departments cannot be explained by differences in student quality or by structural differences across departments (i.e., differences in class…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Grades (Scholastic), Elementary Secondary Education
Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2009
Global economic transformations have never been as dramatic as in the twentieth century. Most countries have experienced radical changes in the standards of income per capita, technology, fertility, mortality, income inequality and the extent of democracy in the course of the past century. It is the goal of many disciplines--economics, history,…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Attainment, Demography, Global Approach