Subtopic 1

It states a general relationship between movement time, navigation distance, and target size for
pointing tasks in an interface.
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Fitts' law

Norman law

 Is the extent to which a piece of evidence supports a claim about cause and effect, within the
context of a particular study.
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Internal validity

External Validity

An_________is the group that receives the variable being tested in an experiment while the
control group does not receive a treatment
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experimental group

Control group demoralization

Techniques, devices, or procedures that we want to compare

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Treatments, or conditions

significance test

Typically states that there is no difference between experimental treatments

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Null hypothesis

Hypothesis
If you were testing instructional strategies to improve reading and one group enjoyed reading
more than the other group, they may improve more in their reading because they enjoy it, rather
than the instructional strategy you used. This internal validity is called _______________.
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Subject Characteristics

Treatment diffusion

 Refers to the random assignment of treatments to the experimental units or participants

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Randomization

random digit table

When a control group may become discouraged because it is not receiving the special attention
that is given to the treatment group.
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Control group demoralization

experimental group

A __________ is a formal procedure for comparing observed data with a claim(also called a
hypothesis), the truth of which is being assessed.
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Randomization

significance test

 If two different techniques are being tested in two different third grades in the same building,
the teachers may share what they are doing. It is called?
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Assignment method
Treatment diffusion

Is always a statement that is mutually exclusive with the null hypothesis.

Null hypothesis

Alternative hypothesis

The way in which the experimental units are assigned different treatments.

Assignment method

Significance test

One method to randomize the selection of experiemental conditions or other factors is the use
of a ________-

Random digit table

Randomization

Is a statement or an assumption about relationships between two variables that serves as a

proposed explanation for a phenomenon.

Hypothesis

Null hypothesis

Subtopic 2

Techniques, devices, or procedures that we want to compare

Significance test
Treatments, or conditions
A procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis and provide insight into
cause-and-effect.

Experiments

Significance test

Assignment method

Randomization

A formal procedure for comparing observed data with a claim (also called a hypothesis), the
truth of which is being assessed.

Experiments

Significance test

Assignment method

Randomization

A techniques, devices, or procedures that we want to compare.

Theories

Hypothesis

Treatments, or conditions

Experiment

The way in which the experimental units are assigned different treatments.

Experiments
Significance test

Assignment method

Randomization

A single group is often studied but no comparison between equivalent non-treatments is made.

Pre-experimental group

Experimental group

Static-group comparison

Solomon four-group

A statement or an assumption about relationships between two variables that serves as a

proposed explanation for a phenomenon.

Experiment

Theories

Hypothesis

Observation

It states a general relationship between movement time, navigation distance, and target size for
pointing tasks in an interface.

Normal law

Fitts’ law

Is the variable being tested and measured in a scientific experiment.

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Extraneous variables
Independent variable

Control Variable

Dependent variable

A type of pre-experimental design where the difference between two groups, one of
which receives the treatment and the other does not, after treatment was measured.
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Pre-experimental group

Static-group comparison

Experimental group

Solomon four-group

One method to randomize the selection of experimental conditions or other factors is

the use of a ___________
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Randomization

random digit table

Is an empirical interventional study used to estimate the casual impact of an intervention on

target population without random assignment. Quasi-experimental research

A ______ is a formal procedure for comparing observed data with a claim (also called a
hypothesis), the truth of which is being assessed. Significance test

A collection of research designs which use manipulation and controlled testing to understand
causal processes. Experimental research

An ____ is the group that receives the variable being tested in an experiment while the control
group does not receive a treatment. Experimental group
Referred to as the observer effect is a type of reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of
their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed. Hawthorne effect

Is a statement or an assumption about relationships between two variables that serves as a

proposed explanation for a phenomenon. Hypothesis

Is the group that receives the variable being tested in an experiment while the control group
does not receive a treatment. Experimental group