members controlled assignments of "working men," the inmates deemed sufficiently trustworthy to work outside their cells for the guards.
The students were randomly assigned, within classes, to do the exercise or a control assignment that was not focused on their values.
The authors found, too, that those who benefited from the exercises felt more adequate as students on average than those struggling peers who did the control assignment.
Few, then, would have predicted that McClellan's first and most daunting damage-control assignment would turn out to be his own father.
The experimental design was based on a random control assignment into three treatment groups (with different forms of feedback) and a control group (with no feedback).
About 20 min later, students were given their partially completed assignment and a new, control assignment that contained the same number of equivalent problems that were incomplete on their partially completed assignment.
The control assignment was conducted using a computer based randomization among the "no crowding" group (TSLD>-4mm).
Quasi-experimental design is an empirical study which typically allows the researcher to control the assignment to the treatment condition, but using some criterion other than random assignment [35].
"Stevens controlled the assignment of opinions with great skill," Walter Dellinger said.
First City Command is said to control the assignment of cell phones and to operate a flourishing "escape industry;" more than 1,000 prisoners have escaped since 1998.
It controls the assignment of all frequencies, monitors content across the media landscape and wields the power to levy large fines for violations of the rules.
