The National Science Foundation has a policy of, each year, selecting the best young scientists and giving them a 5 year grant to allow them to work on their program of research
These scientists are selected based on the number of publications they have produced in the prior year. All scientists who have published 4 or more articles in the prior years receive these grants. The National Science Foundation wants to find out if this program is effective. The research design that could be used to best test the effect of this program is
a. posttest-only design.
b. regression-discontinuity design.
c. one group pretest-posttest design.
d. pretest-posttest design.
B
You might also like to view...
The research approach that involves changing the level, intensity, frequency, or duration of an independent variable is
a. correlational. b. observational. c. experimental. d. validational.
The current rate at which species are going extinct is ______ times as high as the rate shown by the fossil record.
a. 10 b. 100 c. 1,000 d. 10,000
The Supreme Court ruled that the political speech of Charles T. Schenck presented a "clear and present danger" to the United States
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following statements about political information is true?
A. The public is surprisingly informed of basic political facts, concepts, and issues. B. Almost all Americans develop elaborate and well-informed political views because the payoff always exceeds the costs. C. People are reluctant to pay the cost of acquiring information that has no practical payoff so their opinions appear to be uninformed and unstable. D. Americans largely discount the availability of free information because surveys reveal a perception that any information that is free must be biased.