You want to study the effects of gender on math achievement. However, you know that you cannot randomly assign some people to male and others to be female, so you cannot have a true experiment. In this scenario, what type of research design would be most appropriate to use?

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Malik Berry

Social Studies

11 March, 15:28

You want to study the effects of gender on math achievement. However, you know that you cannot randomly assign some people to male and others to be female, so you cannot have a true experiment. In this scenario, what type of research design would be most appropriate to use?

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Jerome · Answer 1

Quasi experiment

Explanation:

A quasi-experiment is an empirical research design used to estimate the "causal impact" of an intervention on target population without "randomly assigning participants" to treatment and control groups. This research design shares similarities with traditional experiment designs and random control trials.