A Researcher Does a Study of a Curriculum on Mass

question 3

Multiple Choice

A researcher does a study of a curriculum on mass transit. She assigns a group of students from a rural school to receive the curriculum. She assigns a school in a major urban area to the comparison condition. She measures the results of a posttest on the curriculum. She finds that the groups score the same on the posttest. What can you conclude from this study?

• A) We can say for sure that the curriculum does not improve knowledge of mass transit
• B) There are no extraneous variables in this study
• C) We can say for sure that the curriculum improves knowledge of mass transits
• D) Rural versus Urban location is an extraneous variable that makes it hard to draw a conclusion

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