Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts

Monday, March 22, 2010

Current Trends in Research Methodology and Statistics in Applied Linguistics

Lazaraton

The most widely used statistical test carried out in linguistics publications is ANOVA, which is a troubling finding since ANOVA has a number of assumptions which were probably not all met in every study.

Almost every study used quantitative data, but many did not publish descriptive statistics!

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Does the GRE predict meaningful success in the graduate training of psychologists?

by Sternburg and Williams
at Yale

They tried to correlate GRE scores with grades, professor ratings, and dissertation ratings.

"In sum, GRE scores were found to be modest predictors of first-year but not second-year grades in our graduate program, both for men and for women. However, only the GRE Analytical test score was found to predict more consequential evaluations of student performance and only for men."