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 study uses a nonequivalent control group design, where the inner city with the midnight basketball program is the treatment group and the other city without the program is the comparison (or control) group. The researcher is measuring the outcomes (crime rate) before and after the program implementation in the treatment group and comparing it to the control group.

You Are Conducting a Study of How Effective a Midnight