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"Tools to look at Interval or Ratio (Scale) Data December 31st, 2010 Interval Scale is use when we are measure the differences between observations. Difference between any two successive points is equal. Interval scale numbers that are equally different represent differences of equal magnitude. The zero vale of an interval scale is arbitrary. Often data of this scale are treated as a Ratio scale even if the assumption of equal intervals is incorrect. Some examples of Interval scale data is Calendar time, Voltage and  Temperature. Ratio Scales is like Interval Scale except it has a true zero point. In other words you can have nothing less than zero, on negative values. Some examples of ratio scale data  is Time, Distance, weight, Speed, ad Frequency."

A very nice site. Well explained. I'll be using it in the near future. Thank you for sharing it.

_Five principles for research ethics

Not that long ago, academicians were often cautious about airing the ethical dilemmas they faced in their research and academic work, but that environment is changing today. Psychologists in academe are more likely to seek out the advice of their colleagues on issues ranging from supervising graduate students to how to handle sensitive research data, says George Mason University psychologist June Tangney, PhD.

Psychologists in academe are more likely to seek out the advice of their colleagues on issues ranging from supervising graduate students to how to handle sensitive research data.

DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. We hope to provide data from a wide variety of topics so that statistics teachers can find real-world examples that will be interesting to their students. Use DASL's powerful search engine to locate the story or datafile of interest.

This web site currently features a number of statistical test calculators that social science students (and others) might find useful. These were originally developed in order to analyse the data accumulated at the Philosophy Experiments web site (partly just for the fun of it, and partly because SPSS and the like are cumbersome and prohibitively expensive). The calculators are designed to be easy to use - normally requiring only that you input your data and press a button. It is very useful for IA-Results section

I want the students to be able to critique and potentially harangue any materials presented by a "noted" authority. Where do they get their data from, how valid were the experimental procedures, etc. Likewise, I want them to explore the potential implications of the data found. How can it be used, and are there any ethical ramifications? Pieces like this are great for fostering such discussions.

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This really wasn't for the workshop. I just decided I was going to use this in a discussion with my students. I thought I'd share.

This could actually be a study that students can replicate; I tried to find the original article, but my data base access does not have it; here is the abstract: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/25/6/1159

Hi Marcus, I start the year off with note taking and get students to research the research on using technology over hand written notes. One of my students last year used Cunningham and Stanovich's study for their IA which was titled 'is the pen mightier than the keyboard'? I like this one, something new:0), Best regards, Yvette