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This activity contains 17 questions.
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The most important purpose of experimental research is to
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Experimental research has the following characteristics:
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A high level of control is needed to infer causal relationships in an experimental study. The major disadvantage of this design is that
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Which sequence is appropriate for planning experimental research?
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The preferred method of achieving statistical equivalence of groups of subjects is to
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Which of the following is not a threat to internal validity?
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Which of the following characterizes pre-experimental designs?
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The pre-experimental design that has the most weaknesses with respect to internal validity is the
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The most serious threat to the internal validity of the one group pretest-posttest design is
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The difference between the posttest only with nonequivalent groups design and the one-group posttest only design is that in the first design
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True experimental designs control which source of internal validity better than quasi-experimental designs?
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Which of the following is NOT a threat to a true experimental pretest-posttest control group design?
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Which design is recommended if a researcher is interested in conducting a study of self-concept and is interested in analyzing an entire school population?
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In employing the single group interrupted time series design, it is important that
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Which characteristic distinguishes single-subject designs from other experimental designs?
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A characteristic of research that is especially important for single-subject designs is to provide
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Multiple baseline designs are especially useful when
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Answer choices in this exercise appear in a different order each time the page is loaded.
Which of the following is not a key characteristics of a true experiment?
Which of the following is NOT one of the key characteristics of a true experiment? The manipulation of a variable.
What are the 4 elements of true experiments?
True experiments have four elements: manipulation, control , random assignment, and random selection.
What are the 3 requirements for a true experiment?
In general, designs that are true experiments contain three key features: independent and dependent variables, pretesting and posttesting, and experimental and control groups. In a true experiment, the effect of an intervention is tested by comparing two groups.
What are the 3 characteristics of experimental research?
What are the Characteristics of Experimental Research? Experimental research contains dependent, independent and extraneous variables.