A study is designed to determine whether grades in a statistics course could be improved by offering special review material. Th
e 250 students enrolled in a large introductory statistics class are also enrolled in one of 20 lab sections. The 20 lab sections are randomly divided into two groups of 10 lab sections each. The students in the first set of 10 lab sections are given extra review material during the last 15 minutes of each weekly lab session. The students in the remaining 10 lab sections receive the regular lesson material, without the extra review material. The grades of the students who reviewed weekly were higher, on average, than the students who did not review every week. What type of study is this
The type of study being described is an Experimental but not double-blinded study. That is because it is a study that has a control group, dependent variable, and an independent variable all used in order to acquire specifically targetted data from the results that are derived from the experiment itself. Also since the scientists/researchers know exactly which lab sections are getting the extra review material (independent variable), then that makes this a non-double-blinded study.
