Psychology A-Level
test selection criteria
What test selection criteria means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of test selection criteria
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The three criteria required for test selection are the nature of the hypothesis (difference or correlation), the experimental design (independent or repeated/matched), and the level of measurement (nominal, ordinal, or interval).
Topics that use test selection criteria
- D.1 – handling data (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- bar charts and histograms
- calculating tests of difference
- central tendency on a curve
- checking data quality
- co-variables
- comparing two conditions
- content analysis
- correlation coefficients
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