Quasi-Experimental Designs At the start of the semester, the university installed computer workstations in
One General Psychology classroom and traditional desks and an LCD
Projector in another.At the end of the semester, researchers compared
Student satisfaction with their classrooms.Which quasi-experimental design
Did they use?
A)cross-lagged panel design
B)longitudinal design
C)nonequivalent groups design
D)pretest/posttest design

Question

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The researchers used a nonequivalent groups design because they did not randomly assign students to the two different classrooms. Instead, the classrooms were already set up and the students chose which class to enroll in. This means that the two groups of students were not equivalent at the start of the study, and any differences in satisfaction at the end of the semester could be due to factors other than the classroom set-up (such as differences in the students themselves).

Quasi-Experimental Designs at the Start of the Semester, the University