Question

A professor reports that students who pay for their own education have a higher freshman GPA compared to students who do not pay for college. In this example, paying for own college (yes, no) is: Select one: a. the independent variable. b. the quasi-independent variable. c. the manipulated factor. Incorrect d. an independent and dependent variable.

Answer 1

Right.ans. is - b. the quasi-independent variable.

So,Some similarities for both true and quasi-experiments participants will undergo some sort of condition or treatment and the studies end result or point of interest will be measured. Quasi-experimental designs do pose some differences though as they capture preexisting differences in the studies participants. The participants are not randomly assigned to treatments or control groups in quasi-experimental as they are in a true experiment and researchers must try to control the differences as much as they can since there is an unknowable factor in quasi-experimental.