A researcher wants to study the effectiveness of a midnight basketball program in reducing juvenile delinquency. She identifies a community that already has a program in place and compares delinquency rates to a community that does not. This is an example of which type of quasi-experimental design?

A. non-equivalent control group design
B. before-and-after design
C. ex post facto control group design
D. this cannot be a quasi-experiment.


Answer: A

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