A researcher at the University of Western Ontario hopes to determine whether more frequent performance feedback can lead to improved employee performance. They expect they will find that more frequent feedback is related to stronger performance. To test this, they select two administrative staffs, one from the Department of Economics and the other from the Department of Geography. For a 90-day period, the staff from the Department of Economics is given regular weekly performance feedback covering areas of achievement, areas of growth, areas in need of improvement, andnext steps. The staff from the Department of Geography will use the standing annual performance evaluation structure. Over the 90-day period the researcher will measure overall productivity of the two teams. Which of the following statements does not describe this scenario?

A.

The objective of this true experiment is to establish that more frequent feedback will result in better performance.

B.

The hypothesis is the prediction that frequency of feedback is related to quality of performance.

C.

The dependent variable in this experiment is employee performance.

D.

All the above statement accurately describe this scenario.