Solomon Four Group Design
An experimental design in which subjects are randomly assigned to two study groups and two control groups. Pretest measures are used for one of the study groups, and one of the control groups. Following exposure of the study groups to the intervention or experiment, posttest measures are collected on all four groups.
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