In a Pilot Study, Dana Wants to Test the Significance

question 3

Multiple Choice

In a pilot study, Dana wants to test the significance of the improvement in mean scores from pretest to posttest.Dana should use:

• A)The one-sample t-Test.
• B)The paired-samples t-Test.
• C)The independent-samples t-Test.
• D)An independent-samples t-Test with change scores.

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