Given a Laboratory Study That Compared Learning from Text in Two

question 71

Multiple Choice

Given a laboratory study that compared learning from text in two conditions, one with underlining of important terms and one without underlining, found that the underlining group did better on factual items; Marina conducted a study with tenth-grade history students and compared one group that read a chapter with the important text underlined and one group that read a chapter without any underlining. In her study she found no effects for the underlining.
-Marina's findings may indicate that the underlining treatment has

• A) low internal reliability.
• B) low external reliability.
• C) low internal validity.
• D) low external validity.

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