A Researcher Is Interested in the Effects of Ethics Training

Multiple Choice

A researcher is interested in the effects of ethics training on corporate executive decision-making. She contacts three similar companies. These three companies receive either an ethics training course, a traditional leadership course, or no course (control) . Which training they receive is delivered randomly. The participating executives are assessed before and after training. This design is:
Explain your answer. There is random assignment of treatments to similar intact groups. Assume there are no significant pretest differences between the group

A) Poor experimental design
B) Poor quasi-experimental design
C) Moderate quasi-experimental design
D) Strong quasi-experimental design