In her study of student athlete's achievement motivation, Katie administers a self-report achievement motivation scale before she starts a new motivation enhancement intervention. After the intervention, Katie again assesses students' achievement motivation. She set her alpha at p=.05, and reported that there were no significant findings in her study.
-Which of the following best represents the design of Katie's study?

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Katie's study is pre-experimental as it lacks a control group and does not randomize participants to interventions. It only assesses the same group of students' achievement motivation before and after an intervention. The non-significant findings suggest that the intervention may not have had a significant impact on the students' motivation, but the absence of a control group makes it impossible to rule out the possibility that other factors (e.g., regression to the mean) may have influenced the results.

In Her Study of Student Athlete's Achievement Motivation, Katie Administers