You Are Interested in Determining Whether Allowing Prison Inmates to Have

Multiple Choice

You are interested in determining whether allowing prison inmates to have televisions in their cells will reduce violent behavior. You measure the rate of violence in the prison, install televisions in all cells, and then measure the rate of violence again one month later to see if there has been any change. What research design have you used?

A) A controlled experiment
B) A one-group pretest-posttest design
C) A quasi-experiment
D) A life history