A Developmental Psychologist Conducted an Experiment to Examine the Effect

Multiple Choice

A developmental psychologist conducted an experiment to examine the effect of type of text used on math performance across age groups. Fifth grade and college students studied age-appropriate math concepts using either a traditional hard copy book text or an e-text available on the web. Performance on a math test of the concepts studied was then measured for all students. The appropriate statistical test to analyze the data in this study is ______.

A) a one-sample t test
B) an independent samples t test
C) a paired/related samples t test
D) an ANOVA