Classroom Intervention to Reduce Sexist Prejudice : A Quasi-Experimental Design With Patched-in Comparison Groups / Janice D. Yoder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yoder, Janice D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexism in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2025.

Summary:

Drawing from a published demonstration of the effectiveness of a classroom intervention toward reducing students' sexist attitudes, I model how anticipating threats to internal and external validity can guide research design and subsequently rule out unwanted alternative explanations that might otherwise serve to undermine support for adopting this or similar interventions. Starting with the ideal of a true experiment, I patched in multiple comparisons groups to a basic pretest-posttest control group design to address the practical and ethical shortcomings of not being able to randomly assign participants to groups, to require participants to complete the full study, to control the extraneous noise inherent in a field study, and to compensate for small sample sizes. The result was a quasi-experimental demonstration with four groups, at the center of which were 31 students who completed a survey of sexist attitudes before and after semester-long exposure to sexism theory and research in my Research Methods classes (the intervention). Selection biases, testing effects, social desirability, and other threats were ruled out by data from my students who completed only the pretest and comparison groups of psychology majors in other required classes who responded only to the pretest or to both the pre- and posttest. This behind-the-scenes exploration of our quasi-experimental design may hone postgraduates' research skills and/or provide background for instructors who elect to use our study as an assigned reading in an undergraduate methods course.

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ISBN:

1-03-621634-9

9781036216344

OCLC:

1523170845