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Buchanan, Taylor L.; Lohse, Keith R. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2016
We surveyed researchers in the health and exercise sciences to explore different areas and magnitudes of bias in researchers' decision making. Participants were presented with scenarios (testing a central hypothesis with p = 0.06 or p = 0.04) in a random order and surveyed about what they would do in each scenario. Participants showed significant…
Descriptors: Researchers, Attitudes, Statistical Significance, Bias
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DeSutter, T.; Viall, E.; Rijal, I.; Murdoff, M.; Guy, A.; Pang, X.; Koltes, S.; Luciano, R.; Bai, X.; Zitnick, K.; Wang, S.; Podrebarac, F.; Casey, F.; Hopkins, D. – Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education, 2010
A field-based, soil methods, and instrumentation course was developed to expose graduate students to numerous strategies for measuring soil parameters. Given the northern latitude of North Dakota State University and the rapid onset of winter, this course met once per week for the first 8 weeks of the fall semester and centered on the field as a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Projects, Scientific Methodology, Experiential Learning
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Brewer, James K. – Journal of Educational Statistics, 1985
Six behavioral statistics textbooks listed by their publishers as "bestsellers" during 1982 were reviewed by the author. The intent was to detect the presence of and to discuss the nature of some theoretical inferential inaccuracies, misinterpretations and errors. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing, Sampling, Statistical Analysis
McLean, James E. – 1983
This simple method for simulating the Central Limit Theorem with students in a beginning nonmajor statistics class requires students to use dice to simulate drawing samples from a discrete uniform distribution. On a chalkboard, the distribution of sample means is superimposed on a graph of the discrete uniform distribution to provide visual…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing, Research Methodology, Sampling
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Holmes, Allen H.; And Others – Two-Year College Mathematics Journal, 1977
Procedures are described for teaching statistical inference and decision-making without lengthy pre-requisite work in descriptive statistics and probability theory. (JLH)
Descriptors: College Mathematics, General Education, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing
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Eiting, Mindert H.; Mellenbergh, Gideon J. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1980
Using reasonable values for the parameters in both null and alternative hypotheses about covariance matrices, an optimal and feasible combination of number of subjects, significance level, and power of the test were determined for an empirical study of the measurement of musical ability. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Education Majors, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing
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Pagell, Ruth A.; Lusk, Edward J. – College and Research Libraries, 1986
Tested the hypothesis that increasing library services would increase returns of a questionnaire generated by that library. Students and faculty were surveyed before and after new services were offered at Wharton School. Results suggest source of sponsorship should be related to user group to be surveyed to maximize return rate. (CDD)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Faculty, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing
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Maher, W. A.; And Others – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1994
Presents a general framework for designing sampling programs that ensure cost effectiveness, and managed errors kept within known and acceptable limits. (LZ)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Environmental Education, Environmental Research, Error of Measurement
McMillan, James H. – 1996
This book is intended for a one-semester or one-term course in educational research. It is designed to enable students to become intelligent consumers of educational research and to introduce its basic principles to those who eventually may be involved in research in their work. The chapters are: (1) "Introduction to Research in Education"; (2)…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Educational Research, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing
Albanese, Mark A. – 1985
This study reexamines results reported by Angoff and Schrader regarding formula directions and rights directions for standardized tests. In that study, it was concluded that the two scoring directions were essentially equivalent. In this study, methodological concerns are discussed and additional data analyses undertaken. Among various…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Data Interpretation, Fatigue (Biology), Guessing (Tests)
Kruskal, William, Ed. – 1970
This book, one of a series prepared in connection with the Behavioral and Social Sciences Survey (BASS) conducted between 1967 and 1969, deals with problems of statistics, mathematics, and computation as they related to the social sciences. Chapter 1 shows how these subjects help in their own ways for studying learning behavior with irregular…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Computation, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing