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Rickles, Jordan H. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
This paper illustrates how information collected through interviews can develop a richer understanding of the assignment mechanism, which can result in more plausible causal effect estimates from observational studies and provides a roadmap for sensitivity analysis. Focusing on the issue of assignment to algebra in 8th grade, the author shows how…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grade 8, Interviews, Algebra
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Alacaci, Cengiz – Journal of Statistics Education, 2004
This study investigated the knowledge base necessary for choosing appropriate statistical techniques in applied research. In this study, we compared knowledge used by six experts and six novices in two types of statistical tasks. The tasks were: 1) comparing research scenarios from the perspective of choosing a statistical technique, and 2) direct…
Descriptors: Statistics, Statistical Inference, Expertise, Comparative Analysis