Private universities claim to offer a higher quality education compared to public universities as justification for their more e
xpensive tuition rates. The implication is that better education in the classroom leads to better employees after graduation. As a HR specialist in charge of selecting the best possible future employees from a pool of applicants, you propose giving preference to applicants with degrees from private universities. Hoping to control for the influence of academic performance on on-the-job performance, you randomly select 25 pairs of employees based on their cumulative GPA, one with a degree from a private university and another with a degree from a public university, and record their last performance evaluation score in an Excel file. The data appears as follows: GPA Private University Alumni Public University Alumni
4.0 85 89
3.9 82 78
3.8 75 77
3.7 91 72
(a) How should this study design be described?
O True experiment
O Posttest only quasi experiment
O Non-experimental study
O Quasi experiment
