Describe the Internal Validity Threat of Maturation and Give an Example

question 148

Essay

Describe the internal validity threat of maturation and give an example.

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Definitions:

Z-statistic

A measure that describes how many standard deviations an element is from the mean of a population in standardized testing.

Alpha Levels

A threshold value that determines the significance level of a statistical test, representing the probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis (committing a Type I error).

Two-tailed Test

A statistical test that considers the possibility of both positive and negative differences or effects.