Based on the stakeholders’ primary evaluation interest, a comparison school di

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Based on the stakeholders’ primary evaluation interest, a comparison school district is warranted. But, a comparison school district was not chosen until after the PE staff began to implement their plan to increase active minutes spent in PE class. Thus, there were no baseline data from the comparison schools.

The evaluation design would be need to be:

Two groups, pre-test and post-test with random assignment

Comparison group, post-test only

Two groups, prospective

Multiple groups, time-series

Two groups, pre-test and post-test with random assignment

Comparison group, post-test only

Two groups, prospective

Multiple groups, time-series

Explanation / Answer

During the randomized experiments the study objects are assigned randomly to a group that can receives intervention, while in the other hand the comparison group that does not receive the intervention. In the experiments before and after data was collected from each group. At the final stage of the experiment intervention and comparison group differences can be directly attributed to the effect of the intervention.

So the option A Two groups, pre-test and post-test with random assignment is correct.

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