Question

You are conducting an experiment with several school districts to identify if district goal setting as a treatment influences the outcome of high student achievement in the districts. Your experimental unit of analysis would be:

Answer 1

Answer:

The School Districts

Explanation:

The unit of analysis in research is the focal point of research work, it is where the results come out. it forms the case study that the research work studies to get findings. A unit of analysis can be a sector among several sectors within an organization and it centered on why the researcher is been carried out and the participants.

For example, the district goal setting will only affect a student at the corresponding district. So in as much as the experiment is conducted on several districts, the participant is attached to their district.

The unit of analysis in this study is the school district, it answers the question of why and who the study is meant for.