Dr. Kermit is interested in studying whether the readers on Reading Rainbow cause higher student reading scores than the readers on Avocado Alley. To answer his question, Dr. Kermit should use which research method??
a. ?naturalistic observation
b. ?case study
c. ?survey
d. ?experiment
ANSWER:
d
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