Rhonda Designs an Experiment in Which Half of Her Students

question 65

Multiple Choice

Rhonda designs an experiment in which half of her students are randomly assigned to view a sad movie and half to view a comedy. All of the students then rate their liking for the school at one, two, and three weeks after viewing the movie. This design is:

• A) An interaction design
• B) A nonequivalent posttest-only design
• C) A within-participants design
• D) A factorial design based on a mixed model

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