Nurses have written a proposal for a quasi-experimental study that tests the effect of web-based teaching on nursing students' psychomotor skills. Which of the following is a characteristic of quasi-experimental design?
A) Participants are assigned to groups by a method other than random assignment.
B) The design includes a posttest but does not apply a pretest.
C) The results of the study provide description but do not identify association.
D) The effects of an intervention are identified by examining characteristics of participants' histories.
A
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