A training consultant wanted to see the effects of different learning strategies for teaching management accounting skills to employees. A control group read the book Accounting for Managers (book), a second group read the book and completed the 'end of chapter exercises' (book and exercises), and a third group read the book, did the end of chapter examples and also completed the web materials (all activities). The trainer predicted that the 'all activities' and 'book and exercises' groups would perform better than the 'book' group on a subsequent test, but that the 'book and exercises' group would be worse than the 'all activities' group. Which coding scheme would test these hypotheses in a set of planned comparisons?

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The coding scheme that allows for the testing of the predicted hypotheses through planned comparisons is one that includes three groups: book, book and exercises, and all activities. Choice B is the only option that includes these three groups and would allow for the following planned comparisons to test the hypotheses:
1. Book and exercises vs. book
2. All activities vs. book
3. All activities vs. book and exercises

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