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Walter discovered a strong positive relationship between parental engagement with their children and subsequent college success. He controlled for the educational level of parents and found the same relationship in all three partial tables for parental education level. Which type of elaboration analysis did he perform?


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Construct Validity

The extent to which a test or instrument measures the theoretical construct it's intended to measure.

Experimenter Bias

The possibility that the experimenter’s knowledge of the condition a particular participant is in could affect her behavior toward the participant and thereby introduce a confounding variable to the independent variable manipulation.

Conceptual Replications

A method in scientific research where a study is conducted again with the same hypotheses but different methods or in different contexts to validate the original findings.

Random Assignment

A method used in experiments to assign participants to different groups in a way that each participant has an equal chance of being placed in any group.

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