Conducting research at an alzheimers care facility

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Case: You are conducting research at an Alzheimer's care facility, seeing whether prior assessment of elderly adults' preferences influences participation of those adults in therapeutic recreation activities at the center. Rec Therapist A provides activities without prior preference assessment. Rec Therapist B conducts preference assessment weekly, and provides activities determined to be preferred by the participants. You collect PLACHECK data across four weeks, using the same methods each time, with each therapist, and with the same participants each time, and get the following data:

Mean Percentage Participant Engagement
Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4
Therapist A (no prior pref asst)	47%	36%	74%	19%
Therapist B (prior pref asst)	64%	54%	39%	92%

2. The data are pretty variable. Assuming the PLACHECK procedures were conducted correctly, considering threats to internal validity, what would be a possible explanation for the figures seen?

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