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John
FAQs for Internal Assessment
The teacher must approve it. I use the panel only to give students feedbacknon their proposal.
John
Sociocultural theories of attraction
Dear Margarita there are two studies above. Moreland’s study is described in detail on this page.
Brett
FAQs for Internal Assessment
Hi John, This may have already been asked, but I wanted to ask the simple question of who primarily approves the IA experiment? The teacher and/or an IB panel? Thank you for any clarifying information.
Margarita
Sociocultural theories of attraction
Dear John I hope you had a good start of the year. Thank you very much for your answers on this topic. Yes, I will use other studies more focused and relevant and focused instead of Buss. For the ERQ, I was thinking of using...
John
Caspi et al (2003)
Yes, it is a natural experiment which is a type of quasi-experiment. Either answer would be accepted.
John
Mann Whitney U Test
If the outliers indicate that the guesses showed little understanding of the task - or that students were engaged in a screw you effect, then that would be the justification. Otherwise, students may keep them in the calculations. They...
Li
Caspi et al (2003)
Dear John, can this study be also identified as a quasi-experiment? Since the study compare groups of partcipants based on a pre-exsiting trait- 5HTT gene.
Harshita
Mann Whitney U Test
Thank you John, my students have removed the outliers, calculated the mean and the SD and also ran a Mann-Whitney U test. However, I was wondering what justification can they provide for removing the outliers? Thanks in advance.
Narges
Alloy et al (1999)
Dear John. Alloy is the natural experiment?
John
Evolutionary psychology
Yes, absolutely.
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