You find that maturation is a threat to the internal validity and should be a special concern in your proposed study. However, the only feasible design in this situation doesn’t control the threat of maturation. What should you do?
A. You should not conduct an evaluation study in this situation.
B. You should conduct the study with the feasible design and you do not need to worry about this problem as a major limitation of your study methods.
C. You should conduct the study with the best design that is feasible and report its failure to address maturation as a major limitation of your study methods.
D. You should encourage others to conduct this study for you and let them worry about threats to internal validity.
Ans: C
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