Content Frame
[Skip Breadcrumb Navigation]
Home  arrow Chapter 5  arrow Chapter Skeletons

Chapter Skeletons

Experiment - At least one independent variable is manipulated.

Experimental Design - the structure by which variables are positioned or arranged in an experiment.

Experimental Validity Threats
Internal
History
Maturation
Testing
Instrumentation
Statistical regression
Selection
Mortality
External
Interaction effect of testing
Interaction of selection and treatment
Reactive effects of arrangements
Multiple treatment interference
Construct
Inadequate explication
Mono-operation bias
Mono-method bias
Hypothesis guessing
Confounding constructs with levels
Statistical Conclusion
Low statistical power
Violated assumptions
Fishing and error rate
Reliability of measures
Experimental designs
Posttest-only control group design
Pretest-posttest control group design
Solomon four-group design
Factorial designs
Repeated measures designs
 

Random assignment for internal validity
Random selection for external validity






Copyright © 1995-2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Allyn & Bacon
Legal and Privacy Terms
Pearson Education

[Return to the Top of this Page]