questionnaire about their attitudes. The mean score on the questionnaire for these 36 students is 70. The score for people in general on this questionnaire is 75‚ with a standard deviation of 12. Using the five steps of hypothesis testing and the 5% significance level (i.e. alpha = .05)‚ does showing the film change students’ attitudes towards the chronically mentally ill? • What does it mean to set alpha at .05? Alpha at .05 means there is a .05 probability or 5% chance of committing a Type I error
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Gender Differences in Academic Achievement Lashear C. Price Cleveland State University Author Note Lashear C. Price‚ Department of Psychology‚ Cleveland State University. Address Correspondence to: Lashear C. Price‚ Department of Psychology‚ Cleveland State University‚ 2121 Euclid Ave‚ Cleveland‚ OH 44115. E- mail: lashear_07@yahoo.com Abstract In recent years‚ researchers have debated whether social bias exists between boys and girls regarding social skills
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Differences in ability of facial and object image recognition and its suggestibility by image rotation Abstract The ability of face and object image recognition and it s suggestibility by image rotation was examined on first year Psychology students of University of London (N=59). “Subject” participants from assigned pairs were presented with a series of images including faces and objects where 50% of the images were inverted. “Subject” participants had
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Study Habits of Postgraduate Students in Selected Nigerian Universities Stella E. Igun Delta State University‚ akustella@yahoo.com Oghenevwogaga Benson Adogbeji Delta State University‚ benadogbeji@yahoo.com Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Igun‚ Stella E. and Adogbeji‚ Oghenevwogaga Benson ‚ " Study Habits of Postgraduate Students in Selected Nigerian Universities" (2007). Library Philosophy and Practice
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WHAT ARE THE STATISTICS ON COOPERATIVE LEARNING ANYWAY? Cooperative learning has been debated by educators for a long time and continues to be questioned today. Many educators feel that cooperative learning strips students of the benefits of direct instruction. Proponents of homogeneous learning tend to stray from cooperative learning because it seems to deprive gifted students of learning with their gifted peers. Five studies will be summarized that look at different
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Determine which level of measurement— nominal‚ ordinal‚ interval‚ or ratio—is used in the following examples. The Association of Accountants is conducting a survey to determine the ranking of the top 100 accounting firms in the world. Ordinal How many years did it take you to earn your college degree? Ratio On a questionnaire which asks for gender‚ males are coded as 1 and females are coded as 2. Interval Respondents are asked to rate a list of high-tech companies as excellent‚ good‚ fair‚ or
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Through this investigation we found no effect in carbohydrate mouth rinsing on exercise performance. On the contrary to our hypothesis‚ there was no significant difference in distance cycled between those who carbohydrate mouth rinsed and the control (Fig. 1.). In addition‚ we also found that there was no significant difference in HR throughout the entire investigation between treatment groups (Fig. 2.). These exercise performance results is inconsistent with those results obtained by Carter et
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陆乐 TPO33 综合写作 The reading passage holds that three major functions of the carved stone balls. However‚ the professor argues that none of the three theories are very convincing. Firstly‚ according to the reading passage that the carved stone balls were weapons used in hunting or fighting. Whereas the professor thinks that common Heolithic weapons such as arowheads and hand axes had sign of wear. If the stone balls had been used as weapons‚ there would be cracks and pieces broken off as well. However
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The new Thessaly test for early detection of meniscal tears provides high level of accuracy in both specificity and sensitivity. The previous evidence based approach for detection of meniscal tears following subjective history was done by carrying out a combination of the McMurray’s test and joint line tenderness. The combination of the two was needed to rule in meniscal tear as McMurray’s test was high in specificity and low in sensitivity (Malanga‚ 2003 ). Specificity of the test was determined
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Grade 11 Physics Study Guide SPH3U1 Unit 1: Kinematics + Intro How to count significant figures: -Embedded 0’s count (i.e. 101 has 3 sig figs) -Any numbers that aren’t zeros count (i.e. 5263 has 4 sig figs) -0’s after the decimal place count (i.e. 1.00 has 3 sig figs) -Trailing 0’s (i.e. 2000 has 4 sig figs) -Numbers after the first non-zero (i.e. 0.0002102 has 4 sig figs) How to add and subtract numbers with proper sig figs: The result will have the least amount of numbers after the decimal
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