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Peer reviewedYou, Soon-Hyung; Stone-Romero, Eugene F. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1996
To clarify the findings of R. Gillett (1991) about the inequality of the means of test scores of minority and majority examinees, the standard errors of the quota-selected sample means and the sampling distribution of these means were studied through Monte Carlo simulation. Results explain that the quota selection inequality results from…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Minority Groups, Monte Carlo Methods, Sampling
Download full textBreunig, Nancy A. – 1995
Despite the increasing criticism of statistical significance testing by researchers, particularly in the publication of the 1994 American Psychological Association's style manual, statistical significance test results are still popular in journal articles. For this reason, it remains important to understand the logic of inferential statistics. A…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Research, Hypothesis Testing, Sampling
