A Sentence in an Abstract of an Article Reads: "Compared

question 1

Multiple Choice

A sentence in an abstract of an article reads: "Compared to baseline scores, volunteers assigned to the intervention condition showed greater improvement at the six-month follow-up assessment than those assigned to an attention-equivalent comparison condition." Given this sentence, the study design must be a:

• A) posttest-only design.
• B) longitudinal design.
• C) pretest-posttest randomized controlled trial.
• D) repeated-measures design.

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