Exam 10: Quasi-Experimental Design

A pre-post quasi-experimental research design where the treatment is given to only one unit in the sample,with all remaining units acting as controls is a ____ design.

The fundamental threat to internal validity in the regression-discontinuity design is selection.

In the _______________ design,it is possible to determine whether the intervention and comparison groups are maturing at different rates.

A regression point displacement design is particularly attractive when ____.

Quasi-experiments are often preferable when it would be unethical to randomly assign individuals to treatment conditions.

The threat to internal validity that occurs when there are different rates of movement towards the mean in the two groups is termed a(n)_______________ threat.

If there is a difference between the pretest scores of the intervention and comparison groups in the NEGD,it indicates that there is selection bias.

What type of design is a pretest-posttest program-comparison-group quasi-experimental design in which a cutoff criterion on the preprogram measure is the method of assignment to a group?

How does the double-pretest design address selection-maturation threats?

A design that includes two waves of measurement prior to the intervention is a ____ design.