To prepare:
- Review Chapter 9 from your course text listed in this week’s Learning Resources.
- Review the articles in the Learning Resources that provide examples of use of single-group designs.
Post your comprehensive response to each of the following:
- Briefly restate the purpose of your team’s program evaluation RFP.
- Describe a situation for which a single-group design might be considered for an evaluation of the general program situation of your RFP (e.g., school anti-bullying program). Why might it be appropriate in this situation? Explain.
- Given your example, explain the strengths and limitations of a single-group design for use in this evaluation.
- Would you choose a posttest only or pretest-posttest design? Why?
- How would you try to deal with threats to internal validity as part of your planning?
