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Experimental design
Quasi-experimental design
Nonexperimental design
Two types of before-and after
designs
1.Time series designs-consisting of many
pretests and posttest observations of same
group(30 or more) 2. repeated measure panel
design-several pretests and post test of same
group
Two major types of quasi-
experimental designs
1. Nonequivalent control group
design 2. Before-and-after design
Two major types of quasi-
experimental designs
1. Nonequivalent control group designs-no
random assignment to groups 2. before and
after design- has pretest and posttest no
comparison group
Two functions of Probes
Or telephone interview
A semipersonal method of collecting
information,convenient and cost saving
method
Telephone survey
Random digit dialing-draw a random sample of telephone
numbers, requires the identification of all working telephone
exchanges in the target area.a potential telephone number is
created by randomly selecting an exchange and then
appending a random number between 0001 and
9999.Additional numbers are created by repeating these two
steps.Nonresidential and nonworking numbers are excluded
Target population
Posttest
R X 01
R 02
Population-finite or infinite
Finite population-contains a countable
number of sampling units
Infinite population-consists of an endless
number of sampling units,an unlimited
number of coin tosses
Population