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.


a. Non-equivalent control group design

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