A Professor Wants to Determine Whether Her Students Perform Better

question 179

Multiple Choice

A professor wants to determine whether her students perform better on mid-term examinations if they write their exam alone or in a group.To experimentally investigate this possibility,she randomly assigns half of her students to write their mid-term in the regular class setting (as a group) and randomly assigns the other half of her students to write their mid-term individually in private cubicles in the university's testing centre.Which of these conditions is the experimental group?

• A)The group of students writing in the classroom
• B)The group of students writing individually in the testing centre
• C)Both groups of students as they are a part of the professor's experiment
• D)Neither of the groups of students as they did not consent to this study

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