writing research question in quasi-experimental method

[funda sahillioğlu]

Hello respected members. I am in need of sources that describe how to write research questions in the matching only pretest and posttest control group desing. Any comment on this topic is also welcomed.

[Rob hall]

Hullo Funda, before making any suggestions, can I please clarify something. You mention “control group”. Are you planning to run an experiment where you have some control over the variables or are you planning a an experiment where you can select subjects/respondents/participants but cannot control the variables?

[funda sahillioğlu]

Hello Rob, basically, I will have  two groups both are control groups and I am conducting an experiment in which two corpus tools  similar to each other in some respect  are introduced to improve students’ English grammar. We are planning to give pre-test and post-test to both groups. Also, groups are nonrandomized. Actually, it seems to fit to quasi-experimental the matching only pre-post test control group design. We avoided from not training one group on the corpus and other without corpus.

 

Thanks for your reply

[William Vann, III Social Studies]

The Dissertation Cookbook by Dr. Bruce Francis is a good source.

[funda sahillioğlu]

Thanks a lot.

[Charles BERG]

Consider the option of a regression discontunuity design, see: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pdf/wwc_rd.pdf, Charles

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