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Activity: Threats to Internal Validity: Smarties vs. Dum Dums
This activity helps students remember potential sources of threats to internal validity, through an in-class activity where students engage in an “experiment” where several threats to internal validity are present.
Author: Gary Lewandowski
Monmouth University
Posted: Thursday, May 06, 2010
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