A researcher wants to compare boys' reading performance to girls' reading performance.He collects reading performance scores from a sample of children from five local schools.This is an example of a

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This is a quasi-experiment because the researcher cannot randomly assign participants to gender and cannot control for other variables that may affect reading performance, such as home environment or teaching quality. The researcher is also only collecting data at one point in time and not following the same participants over time (longitudinal study) or manipulating an independent variable (experiment).

A Researcher Wants to Compare Boys' Reading Performance to Girls