You have devised a program aimed at increasing the achievement motivation of grade-school children. Your goal is to determine both the short-term and the lonq-term effects of your program when administered to first-, third-, and fifth-graders. You could obtain the information you need in the least amount of time using

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A sequential design would allow for both short-term and long-term effects of the program to be studied while minimizing the amount of time needed for the research. This design involves studying multiple age groups (in this case, first, third, and fifth graders) at different points in time. This allows for comparisons between groups and changes over time within each group. It is more efficient than a longitudinal design, which would require following the same group of students over several years, or a cross-sectional design, which would only provide a snapshot of achievement motivation at one point in time. A cross-cultural design would not be relevant for this specific research question.

You Have Devised a Program Aimed at Increasing the Achievement