A study was conducted to investigate reading achievement of two large groups of randomly-selected second-grade students. The researcher found that children who came from homes where books were valued and where parents started reading to them from an early age were more likely to have higher reading scores than children who came from homes where reading was not considered important. Which of the
following terms is used to describe this research design?
a) A pretest-posttest study
b) An ex-post-facto study
c) An experimental study
d) A longitudinal study
b
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