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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West Africa

A region located in the western part of the African continent, consisting of countries along the Atlantic Ocean and Sahara Desert.

Infectious Disease

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Statistica Neerlandica

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