A School Social Worker Administered a Self-Esteem Test to a Group

question 28

Multiple Choice

A school social worker administered a self-esteem test to a group of 9th graders in September.During the school year the students received intensive social work intervention designed to improve their self-esteem.In May the self-esteem test was given again and the self-esteem scores improved.A major problem in this research is that the researcher failed to control for

• A)history.
• B)maturation.
• C)testing.
• D)selection biases.
• E)all of these.

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