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Download full textShaver, James P. – 1980
The implications of data from a review of ten years of the American Educational Research Journal (AERJ) indicating that random sampling is rare and that there is increased use of quasi-experimental designs lacking in random assignment are considered. It is suggested that tests of significance could be abandoned or at least placed in a subsidiary…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Graduate Study, Higher Education
