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The Nonequivalent Groups Design. The Basic Design. N O X O N O O. Key Feature: Nonequivalent assignment. What Does Nonequivalent Mean?. Assignment is nonrandom. Researcher didn’t control assignment. Groups may be different. Group differences may affect outcomes. Internal Validity.
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The Basic Design N O X O N O O • Key Feature: Nonequivalent assignment
What Does Nonequivalent Mean? • Assignment is nonrandom. • Researcher didn’t control assignment. • Groups may be different. • Group differences may affect outcomes.
Internal Validity History Maturation Testing Instrumentation Regression to the mean Selection Mortality Diffusion or imitation Compensatory equalization Compensatory rivalry Resentful demoralization N O X O N O O
Internal Validity N O X O N O O Selection-history Selection-maturation Selection-testing Selection-instrumentation Selection-regression Selection-mortality
9 0 8 0 7 0 t s e t 6 0 t s o P 5 0 4 0 3 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 6 0 7 0 8 0 P r e t e s t The Bivariate Distribution
9 0 8 0 7 0 t s e t 6 0 t s o P 5 0 4 0 3 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 6 0 7 0 8 0 p r e t e s t The Bivariate Distribution Program Group has a 5-point pretest advantage.
9 0 8 0 7 0 t s e t 6 0 t s o P 5 0 4 0 3 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 6 0 7 0 8 0 p r e t e s t The Bivariate Distribution Program group scores 15-points higher on Posttest. Program group has a 5-point pretest advantage,
pretest posttest pretest posttest MEAN MEAN STD DEV STD DEV Comp 49.991 50.008 6.985 7.549 Prog 54.513 64.121 7.037 7.381 ALL 52.252 57.064 7.360 10.272 Graph of Means
Possible Outcome #1 (CG not growing) (PG moving away, CG level) More low-score PG dropouts Selection-history Selection-maturation Selection-testing Selection-instrumentation Selection-regression Selection-mortality
Possible Outcome #2 (Both growing) (Wrong direction) More low-score dropouts Selection-history Selection-maturation Selection-testing Selection-instrumentation Selection-regression Selection-mortality
Possible Outcome #3 (In PG only) (In PG) More high-score PG dropouts not as likely Selection-history Selection-maturation Selection-testing Selection-instrumentation Selection-regression Selection-mortality
Possible Outcome #4 (In PG only) (In PG) More low-score PG dropouts Selection-history Selection-maturation Selection-testing Selection-instrumentation Selection-regression Selection-mortality
Possible Outcome #5 Selection-history Selection-maturation Selection-testing Selection-instrumentation Selection-regression Selection-mortality