II.C.iii: Non-Experimental Techniques

Use surveys or other non-experimental techniques to gain descriptive information.

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Finally, non-experimental techniques, considered the least rigorous method for measuring program success, may involve a single survey delivered after a program in order to gain descriptive information. Non-experimental techniques cannot accurately pinpoint the causes of the outcomes they measure. For example, if researchers using this design survey participants in a job skills development program and find that many of them have gotten jobs, they would not be able to determine whether this was simply due to a rise in the overall employment rate rather than the new skills this group developed.

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