Writing Assignment: Experiment or Not? Submit Assignment Due Wednesday by 11:59p

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Writing Assignment: Experiment or Not? Submit Assignment Due Wednesday by 11:59pm Points 5 Submitting a text entry box For this writing assignment, please consider the following scenario: Scenario: A professor wants to test out a new online quizzing system known as "Socrative." Specifically, he wants to know if using Socrative leads to better scores on the final exam. To test this idea, he uses Socrative for his 8:30 AM General Psychology class during the Fall 2017 quarter. Then, to provide comparison, he teaches his 11:30 AM General Psychology class the exact same way, but without the use of the online Socrative questions. Then, at the end of the quarter, he compares the final exam grades of these two classes. Question: Briefly explain whether the above scenario would be considered an example of an experiment? Be sure to explain why or why not (based on what you learned in the videos and the

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It's an experimental research where the professor has two groups, control group and experimental group.
control group is given only the regular class where as the experimental group is allowed to use the quizzing software.
The quizzing software is the independent variables and the final exam grade is the dependent variable.
There is a considerable amount of time duration for the experiment and there is also a considerable number of students in each class.

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