An Educational Researcher Has Designed Two Different Methods for Teaching

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Essay

An educational researcher has designed two different methods for teaching a statistics course and would like to investigate which is more effective.He designs an experiment as follows.He will obtain a group of volunteer statistics students.
Volunteers will be randomly assigned to one of two groups.Group 1 will be taught the statistics course by Anna Clark using method A and group 2 will be taught by Bob Beauman using method B.At the end of the semester,students will all take the same test.Then the scores for the two groups will be compared.Identify the flaw(s)in this experiment and suggest a way of improving the experiment.

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Definitions:

Intercompany Sale

Transactions of goods or services between subsidiaries within the same parent company.

Bond Discount

The amount by which the market price of a bond is lower than its principal amount due at maturity.

Equity Method

An accounting technique used to record an investor's proportional ownership in a company by recognizing income and increases in investment for the investor's share of the investee's profits.

Acquisition Differential

The disparity between what was paid to acquire a company and the fair market value of its recognizable net assets.