W English professor, Dr. Poe wants to know whether
blogging will improve student academic achievement.
He assigns his English 102 students to two groups.
One group is assigned to create a blog. Students in the
blog group must contribute to weekly to the blog. The
other group of students, the traditional writing group,
completes their weekly writing assignments in the
traditional format - paper/pencil and turning them in
to be graded by the instructor. At the end of the
semester, Dr. Poe compares the final GPA of students
for the blog group and the traditional writing group.
What type of research method is being described