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Download full textHelberg, Clay – 1996
Abuses and misuses of statistics are frequent. This digest attempts to warn against these in three broad classes of pitfalls: sources of bias, errors of methodology, and misinterpretation of results. Sources of bias are conditions or circumstances that affect the external validity of statistical results. In order for a researcher to make…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Error of Measurement
Smith, Jeffrey K.; And Others – 1981
The original impetus for this monograph was a grant from the New Jersey Basic Skills Council of the New Jersey Department of Higher Education to evaluate two college basic skills remedial programs (one in a four-year state college, one in a two-year community college) and to produce a handbook for conducting such evaluations. This monograph is…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Basic Skills, Data Analysis, Data Collection
