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Jores, Theo; Colloff, Melissa F.; Kloft, Lilian; Smailes, Harriet; Flowe, Heather D. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
There is widespread belief in the legal system that alcohol impairs witness testimony. Nevertheless, most laboratory studies examining the effects of alcohol on witness testimony suggest that alcohol may affect the number of correct but not incorrect details recalled. However, it is difficult to draw conclusions because sample sizes, testing…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Alcohol Abuse, Recall (Psychology), Memory
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Hart, Sara A.; Petrill, Stephen A.; Kamp Dush, Claire M. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2010
Purpose: The present study had two purposes: provide an illustration of use of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Children's (CNLSY; U.S. Department of Labor, 2009) database and use the database to seek convergent evidence regarding the magnitude and significance of genetic effects influencing low and typical performers on measures of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Siblings, Intervals, Genetics
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