In a study of children's reading abilities, one group of 8-year-olds is exposed to a new program that supposedly enhances reading abilities. another group is taught with standard methods for teaching reading. results of the study indicated that the children taught with the new program learned to read more complex material than did the group who were exposed to the standard teaching methods. in this study, which is the control group?
I believe the control group is: the one that received standard teaching methods In a research, the control group is the one that's not given a special treatment by the researchers. The purpose of a control group is to serve as some sort of benchmark or checkpoints in order to measure the result of the experimental group.
