Probation Drug Screen Results

Probation Drug Screen Results

February 24, 2013

Research Methods in Criminal Justice

Reginald Boone

DeVry University

Introduction:

The best experimental design for testing the efficiency of DUI task force is the comparison group pre-test/ posttest design. This type of design ensures that the issues under experimentation achieve a higher percentage of internal validity. The practice behind this design is to randomly assign subjects between two groups, namely the control group, and the test group. These two groups are pre tested, and post tested on a given issue (Dunning, 2012). The difference in the testing emanates when a researcher administers a solution to the given issue to one of the groups (Murnane and Willet, 2011).

The diagram below explains how this test is conducted.

Pre-Test: Treatment: Post Test

B

Treated Group

C

A

Control Group

D

A:The researcher manages to see how the Treated and Control group react to the pretest analysis, and compare the scores..

B and D: The researchers manages to see how the control and treated group changed from pretest, to post test.

C: The researcher manages to compare the scores in the post test analysis.

The Mock Experiment:

The Following is a research study to compare the effectiveness of specialized training with that of unspecialized training in improving the efficiency in which the 12 units of the DUI task force prevent DUI related offenses. The researcher tests the management skills of 12...