Dr. Case decides to use a pre-experimental design for her program evaluation. Her decision is defensible if
A) she can rule out all local history effects.
B) it is impossible to come up with a no-treatment control group.
C) she is concerned about treatment diffusion effects.
D) the program might produce resentful demoralization in a control group.

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A pre-experimental design may be defensible if it is impossible to create a no-treatment control group, as it allows for some form of evaluation when a control group is not feasible.

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