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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The nonequivalent control group design involves comparing the results from the intervention group (in this case, the location with the midnight basketball program) to a group that does not receive the intervention (in this case, the other city of similar size without the program). This design allows for comparison of the effects of the program to a similar group, without the need for a pretest measurement.

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