Suppose you are working for the California Education Authority (a fictitious entity). The authority is

tasked with evaluating whether funding a free lunch program or a free after school program in elementary schools in CA would have an impact on student achievement. You are in charge of designing a 3 treatment experimental study to assess the impact of each of the two possible programs relative to having no program. Answer the following questions regarding how you would conduct such a study.

What are the:

i.Outcome variable

ii.Explanatory factor

iii.Unit of observation

iv.Population of interest

v.A possible measure for the outcome variable

vi.The 3 treatments for the experiment