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question 23

Multiple Choice

You are conducting a study of how effective a midnight basketball program is on reducing inner city juvenile crime. You measure the number of crimes reported to the police before and after the program is instituted, and you compare your findings to the crime rates in another city of similar size that does not have such a program. What sort of evaluation design are you using?

• A)The time series
• B)The multiple time series
• C)The nonequivalent control group design
• D)The posttest-only control group design
• E)The one-shot case study

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