Evaluating Design Choice and Threats to Validity in a Quasi-Experimental Design
Being a critical researcher requires practice and thought into the reasoning behind various research design choices. In this Discussion, you will consider a quasi-experimental design used in a study within your discipline and evaluate it for its appropriateness and any potential flaws it has that may have impacted the research.
Review the assigned article for your program within the Research Articles document located in the Learning Resources. Evaluate the choice of the design used in the assigned article. Why was that design used and not another one? Assess the authors’ performance in explaining this.
What are the types of validity presented and the critical differences among them? Assess the authors’ performance in explaining them.
How would you assess the study’s validity? What information would you need in order to be able to do, and is that information present in the article?
