SOC30902 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Standardized Test, Internal Validity, Standard Deviation
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Judge quality of institutions base don widely accepted indicators of excellence. Identify programs associated with student success with cooperation from the. Association of american colleges and universities: then asked college presidents and administration to nominate 10 institutions with examples of each. Data missing is estimated (can be un-reliable) There can be other reasons why certain students didn"t graduate. Can be misjudging to compare universities that do not have the: faculty resources: students contact with professors (class size) same size. Faculty salary (based on costs of living of regions reliable and valid: student selectivity: abilities and ambitions of student body. Measure through tests such as sat and act (unreliable tests do not determine how good a student is) Broken ranks: amy graham and nicholas thompson the top was assigned 100 and the others were calculated as proportion of this, and ranked in descending order.
