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After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
- Select and develop the appropriate research design for your hypotheses or research questions.
- Understand the strengths and limitations of each design form as it relates to research findings, and argue for your design choices.
- Explain the benefits of experimental forms over quasi-experimental and descriptive forms.
- Facilitate appropriate random assignment of participants to treatment and control groups.
- Manipulate independent variables according to their theoretical foundation.
- Conduct manipulation checks of independent variables.
- Interpret findings from experimental and quasi-experimental designs with respect to cause-effect relationships.
- Appropriately interpret findings from descriptive research designs.
- Develop a research protocol to limit researcher effects and procedural bias when conducting research studies.
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