Sentences with phrase «correlational studies like»

Those surveys are designed and used by education researchers, primarily for correlational studies like Coleman's.

Beginning with the leadership of Russ Whitehurst at the Institute of Education Sciences, IES has begun shifting its grants and contracts away from correlational studies like Coleman's and toward those that evaluate interventions with random - assignment and other quasi-experimental designs.

Not exact matches

Personally, I have a pet project — a worldwide ban on correlational studies, kind of like with chemical weapons, etc..

Like the studies of parenting and friendship discussed earlier, most of these studies are correlational and provide no controls for genetic effects, so the results are uninterpretable.

Most of the behaviors thought of as socialized (or unsocialized) are influenced by genetic factors as well as by learning, so correlational studies that provide no control for genetic factors can produce results — correlations between a child's behavior in different contexts — that look like generalization.