A Student Used a Nonequivalent Control Group Design to Examine

question 24

Multiple Choice

A student used a nonequivalent control group design to examine the effectiveness of a video application the library uses to introduce first year students to the library's resources.Which potential threat to internal validity would she examine by comparing the pretest scores for both groups?

• A) a maturation threat
• B) a selection threat
• C) a regression threat
• D) an instrumentation threat

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