Grimmius, Joëlle (2023) Understanding and Misinterpretation of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing: The Impact of Statistics Education and Contextualization. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The current study aims to examine the understanding of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) in psychology students. To do so two research questions were considered: 1. To what extent do psychology students get better at correctly interpreting the significance test with more statistics courses? 2. Does making the subject of NHST less abstract help in correctly understanding and using the method? To test these questions, the mean scores on abstract and contextual questions were experimentally compared to each other within a sample of 149 bachelor of psychology students at the RUG, as well as looking at the mean scores on different levels of completed statistics courses. The result showed that understanding of NHST does appear to get better when students take more than one statistics course, however at the level of completion of all statistics courses, understanding appears to lessen. When the mean scores on abstract and contextual questions were compared, no significant results were found.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
|---|---|
| Supervisor name: | Kiers, H.A.L. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 01 May 2023 09:34 |
| Last Modified: | 01 May 2023 09:34 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1917 |
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