Question

A research is interested in comparing self-esteem scores for children from divorced families vs. scores for children from families with no divorce.

a) What type of research strategy and research design is described above?

b) What is the primary threat to internal validity for this study?

c) What is the difference between this research design and the between subjects experiement

Answer 1

a) Quasi-Experimental design -- this type of research mainly use for test for causality with suboptimal variable control and independent variable is not manipulated.

b)primary threat to internal validity is self esteem scores of divorced and no divorced family.

c)

In between subjects design the various experimental treatments are given to different groups of subjects.

In research design the process of experiment design is a method of putting together tests which provide the most possible information. Typically, a designed experiment is meant to find the effects of varying different factors on the outcome of a process