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Niu, Lian – World Journal of Education, 2016
This study analyzes data of the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 to examine the association between parental provision of task-extrinsic rewards for academic performance, parent involvement in students' learning, and students' choice of study field in college. Results show that frequent receipt of task-extrinsic rewards for good grades from…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Aspiration, Majors (Students), Course Selection (Students)
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Connelly, Brian S.; Sackett, Paul R.; Waters, Shonna D. – Personnel Psychology, 2013
Organizational and applied sciences have long struggled with improving causal inference in quasi-experiments. We introduce organizational researchers to propensity scoring, a statistical technique that has become popular in other applied sciences as a means for improving internal validity. Propensity scoring statistically models how individuals in…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Control Groups, Inferences, Research Methodology
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David, Nissim Ben; Zion, Uri Ben – Health Education, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure the relative effect of relevant explanatory variable on smoking tendency and smoking intensity. Design/methodology/approach: Using survey data collected by the Israeli Bureau of Statistics in 2003-2004, a probit procedure is estimated for analyzing factors that affect the probability of being a…
Descriptors: Jews, Smoking, Foreign Countries, Probability
Mitchell, Terence R.; Kalb, Laura S. – 1980
Past research has suggested that supervisors, when evaluating the poor performance of a subordinate, are influenced by the outcome of the performance. Nurses (N=55) in advanced training assumed the role of a supervisor of a nurse described as having performed poorly. Half of the subjects read an incident without an outcome and half read an…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Evaluation Criteria, Expectation, Feedback