Exam 16: Causal-Comparative Research

The subject characteristics threat in a causal comparative study may be controlled by:

In a causal-comparative study, groups should be compared on:

Discriminate function analysis may be used to strengthen the interpretability of causal-comparative studies.

Matching -Quantitative variable

A pitfall in much causal-comparative research is:

The causal-comparative and experimental methods are similar in that both:

Matching -Experimental research

A researcher wishes to assess the effects of a new teaching technique on student performance in two sections of a high school mathematics course. She plans to control relevant variables by matching the subjects in the two sections. The relevant variables that she considers to be important are age, sex, amount of high school education, level of aspiration, and intelligence. She will arrange to have one section taught by the new technique and the other by a conventional technique. If she attempts to match on all of the variables listed, what problem is she likely to encounter?

The causal-comparative and correlational methods differ in that the causal-comparative method:

Matching -Causal-comparative research