Administering Multiple Pretests in a Non-Equivalent Comparison Group Design

question 17

Multiple Choice

Administering multiple pretests in a non-equivalent comparison group design:

• A) enables us to detect whether participants are already engaged in a change process before treatment begins.
• B) increases the likelihood that improvemenrom pretest to posttest is a function of statistical regression.
• C) makes it more difficult to detect trends in the data..
• D)decreases the internal validity of the design.

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