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.

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This is an example of a non-equivalent control group design because the researcher is comparing outcomes (delinquency rates) between two groups (one with the midnight basketball program and one without) that were not randomly assigned.

A Researcher Wants to Study the Effectiveness of a Midnight