A Researcher Introduces a New Mathematics Program in One School

question 58

Multiple Choice

A researcher introduces a new mathematics program in one school district and uses a neighboring district as a no-treatment control group.After the program is in place for 6 months,the researcher intends to give the students in both districts a standardized mathematics test and then compare their scores.This research cannot be classified as a true experiment because

• A)the treatment is administered to only one group.
• B)there is no pretest to determine mathematics ability before the program.
• C) the researcher does not control the assignment of participants to groups and therefore has a nonequivalent groups design.
• D)it is not conducted in a laboratory.

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