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Stellmack, Mark A. – Teaching of Psychology, 2013
Studies of the effects of class attendance on class performance typically are quasi-experimental because students choose whether or not to attend class; that is, the samples are self-selecting. The lack of random assignment prevents one from establishing a causal relationship between attendance and performance. Relating attendance to performance…
Descriptors: Sampling, Quasiexperimental Design, Demonstrations (Educational), Research Methodology
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Bartz, Albert E.; Wenstrom, Lisa – Teaching of Psychology, 1981
The purpose of this survey was to identify the statistics texts most frequently used by psychology departments and to see if a typical survey of textbooks used by a partial sample of psychology departments would be accurate in describing the entire sample of departments. Partial returns resulted in a meaningful error. (RM)
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Evaluation, Higher Education, Psychology