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Grant, Timothy S.; Nathan, Mitchell J. – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2008
Confidence intervals are beginning to play an increasing role in the reporting of research findings within the social and behavioral sciences and, consequently, are becoming more prevalent in beginning classes in statistics and research methods. Confidence intervals are an attractive means of conveying experimental results, as they contain a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Intervals, Research Methodology, Figurative Language
Trawick, LaVergne – 1992
This study involved the development and preliminary assessment of an intervention derived from contemporary social-cognitive theory to train academically underprepared college students in academic volitional control strategies, as implied by theory and research on volition and research on academic self-regulation. In this pre-post comparison…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Processes, Community Colleges