Case Study 6.1 CAN MEDITATION IMPROVE TEST SCORES

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Case study 6.1
CAN MEDITATION IMPROVE TEST SCORES?
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Narrative: Case study 6.1 summary
The case study investigates whether mindfulness mediation can help college students perform better on exams.Forty-eight undergraduates were recruited and randomly assigned to either a meditation class or a nutrition class.For the two treatments, scores were measured on a verbal reasoning test both before the treatments and after the treatments.The test scores for the nutrition group showed no change, whereas the test scores for the meditation group improved from 460 before the treatment to 520 afterwards.This was a 16-percentile increase.

-{Case study 6.1 narrative} Is this study ecologically valid? Explain why or why not.

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