PSYB04H3 Chapter 13: Chapter 13 _ Quasi
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Chapter 13 quasi- experiments and small-n designs. This chapter discusses situations in which conducting a true experiment is not feasible. Differ from true experiments in that the researchers do not have full experimental control. In a quasi-experiment, they might not be able to randomly assign participants to one level or the other. Instead, participants are assigned to the independent variable conditions by teachers, political regulations, acts of nature or even by their own choice. Nonequivalent control group design: a quasi-experimental study that has at least one treatment group and one comparison group, but participants have not been randomly assigned to the two groups. Head start is a government-funded, early-childhood education program in the united. States that gives a quality preschool experience to children from economically poor homes . Early in the program"s history, educational researchers compared the academic performance of children in the head start program with that of children who were not in the program.
