Which of the Following Experimental Designs Would Have the Strongest

question 3

Multiple Choice

Which of the following experimental designs would have the strongest external validity?

• A) One-group pretest-posttest design
• B) Randomized subjects, posttest-only, control-group design
• C) Randomized subjects, pretest-posttest, control-group design
• D) Nonrandomized pretest-posttest, control-group design

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