Question

Kyo is looking to perform a quick research study to determine the effects of a documentary about domestic violence on people's perceptions of violence. his experiment consists of administering a brief survey to a group, having them watch a movie, then surveying them as they leave to determine if any change occurred. what kind of design is kyo utilizing?

Answer 1

Kyo is using a test group to gauge changes in perception regarding to domestic violence. Given the resources available to Kyo, he should really have set up a double blind study and gauged reactions during the documentary as well as surveying the test group afterwards. Or at least he should have had a control group.

Answer 2

the answer to this question is one group pretest-posttest
one group pretest-posttest refers to a type of research where one subject is pre-tested to fulfill a certain standard before entering the research/
the purpose of this type of test is to eliminate redundancy and make sure that all the participants had relevant characteristics that needed during the reserch