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Bady, Richard J. – 1977
Several tasks were developed to investigate adolescents' ability to see correlations in data and to test hypotheses. Emphasis was placed on methodology: do students clearly understand the problem and do the tasks tap the skills they claim to? The 20 ninth-grade and 20 eleventh-grade boys and 15 college freshmen were tested. Most students did…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Developmental Tasks, Educational Research